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In this paper, we propose a global method for estimating the motion of a camera which films a static scene. Our approach is direct, fast and robust, and deals with adjacent frames of a sequence. It is based on a quadratic approximation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-09-29 Claire Jonchery , Françoise Dibos , Georges Koepfler

We study the challenging problem of estimating the relative pose of three calibrated cameras from four point correspondences. We propose novel efficient solutions to this problem that are based on the simple idea of using four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Charalambos Tzamos , Viktor Kocur , Yaqing Ding , Daniel Barath , Zuzana Berger Haladova , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

We present a robot kinematic calibration method that combines complementary calibration approaches: self-contact, planar constraints, and self-observation. We analyze the estimation of the end effector parameters, joint offsets of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Karla Stepanova , Jakub Rozlivek , Frantisek Puciow , Pavel Krsek , Tomas Pajdla , Matej Hoffmann

This paper presents a novel 3D mapping robot with an omnidirectional field-of-view (FoV) sensor suite composed of a non-repetitive LiDAR and an omnidirectional camera. Thanks to the non-repetitive scanning nature of the LiDAR, an automatic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Ziliang Miao , Buwei He , Wenya Xie , Wenquan Zhao , Xiao Huang , Jian Bai , Xiaoping Hong

Typical Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines rely on finding correspondences across images, recovering the projective structure of the observed scene and upgrading it to a metric frame using camera self-calibration constraints. Solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Rui Gong , Danda Pani Paudel , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

Precise LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for integrating these two sensors into robotic systems to achieve robust perception. In applications like autonomous driving, online targetless calibration enables a prompt sensor misalignment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Han , Xubo Zhu , Ji Wu , Ximeng Cai , Wen Yang , Huai Yu , Gui-Song Xia

The demand for multimodal sensing systems for robotics is growing due to the increase in robustness, reliability and accuracy offered by these systems. These systems also need to be spatially and temporally co-registered to be effective. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for multi-sensor systems. However, traditional methods often rely on physical targets, which are impractical for real-world deployment. Moreover, even carefully calibrated extrinsics can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haebeom Jung , Namtae Kim , Jungwoo Kim , Jaesik Park

For an autonomous vehicle, the ability to sense its surroundings and to build an overall representation of the environment by fusing different sensor data streams is fundamental. To this end, the poses of all sensors need to be accurately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Brahayam Ponton , Magda Ferri , Lars Koenig , Marcus Bartels

Camera calibration is a crucial technique which significantly influences the performance of many robotic systems. Robustness and high precision have always been the pursuit of diverse calibration methods. State-of-the-art calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yesheng Zhang , Xu Zhao , Dahong Qian

Representing the environment is a central challenge in robotics, and is essential for effective decision-making. Traditionally, before capturing images with a manipulator-mounted camera, users need to calibrate the camera using a specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Weiming Zhi , Haozhan Tang , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

With the mounting global interest for optical see-through head-mounted displays (OST-HMDs) across medical, industrial and entertainment settings, many systems with different capabilities are rapidly entering the market. Despite such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ehsan Azimi , Long Qian , Nassir Navab , Peter Kazanzides

Precise calibration is the basis for the vision-guided robot system to achieve high-precision operations. Systems with multiple eyes (cameras) and multiple hands (robots) are particularly sensitive to calibration errors, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Zishun Zhou , Liping Ma , Xilong Liu , Zhiqiang Cao , Junzhi Yu

Creating accurate and efficient 3D models poses significant challenges, particularly in addressing large viewpoint variations, computational complexity, and alignment discrepancies. Efficient camera path generation can help resolve these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Usha Kumari , Shuvendu Rana

The creation of precise and high-resolution crop point clouds in agricultural fields has become a key challenge for high-throughput phenotyping applications. This work implements a novel calibration method to calibrate the laser scanning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Felix Esser , Gereon Tombrink , Andre Cornelißen , Lasse Klingbeil , Heiner Kuhlmann

Camera calibration using planar targets has been widely favored, and two types of control points have been mainly considered as measurements: the corners of the checkerboard and the centroid of circles. Since a centroid is derived from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chaehyeon Song , Dongjae Lee , Jongwoo Lim , Ayoung Kim

Hand-eye calibration is the problem of estimating the spatial transformation between a reference frame, usually the base of a robot arm or its gripper, and the reference frame of one or multiple cameras. Generally, this calibration is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Daniele Evangelista , Emilio Olivastri , Davide Allegro , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

In this work we present a unified method of relative camera pose estimation from points and lines correspondences. Given a set of 2D points and lines correspondences in three views, of which two are known, a method has been developed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Ashraf Qadir , Jeremiah Neubert

We propose a generic event camera calibration framework using image reconstruction. Instead of relying on blinking LED patterns or external screens, we show that neural-network-based image reconstruction is well suited for the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Manasi Muglikar , Mathias Gehrig , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

3D human pose estimation has been a long-standing challenge in computer vision and graphics, where multi-view methods have significantly progressed but are limited by the tedious calibration processes. Existing multi-view methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Boyuan Jiang , Lei Hu , Shihong Xia