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LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-modal data fusion in robotic perception systems. However, existing approaches typically rely on handcrafted calibration targets (e.g., checkerboards) or specific, static scene types,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Huang , Yanwei Fu , Yi Zhou , Xieyuanli Chen , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Estimating camera intrinsic parameters without prior scene knowledge is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. This capability is particularly important for applications such as autonomous driving and vehicle platooning, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gregory Schroeder , Mohamed Sabry , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Accurate camera-to-lidar calibration is a requirement for sensor data fusion in many 3D perception tasks. In this paper, we present SceneCalib, a novel method for simultaneous self-calibration of extrinsic and intrinsic parameters in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Ayon Sen , Gang Pan , Anton Mitrokhin , Ashraful Islam

Most sensor setups for onboard autonomous perception are composed of LiDARs and vision systems, as they provide complementary information that improves the reliability of the different algorithms necessary to obtain a robust scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jorge Beltrán , Carlos Guindel , Arturo de la Escalera , Fernando García

Recently, the rapid development of Solid-State LiDAR (SSL) enables low-cost and efficient obtainment of 3D point clouds from the environment, which has inspired a large quantity of studies and applications. However, the non-uniformity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Jiahe Cui , Jianwei Niu , Zhenchao Ouyang , Yunxiang He , Dian Liu

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

Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is critical for fusing LiDAR and inertial measurements in autonomous driving. This paper proposes a novel three-stage extrinsic calibration method between LiDAR and GNSS/INS for autonomous driving.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Guohang Yan , Jiahao Pi , Chengjie Wang , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

Camera-LiDAR extrinsic calibration is a critical task for multi-sensor fusion in autonomous systems, such as self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. Traditional techniques often require manual intervention or specific environments, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Mathieu Cocheteux , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Sensor fusion is essential for autonomous driving and autonomous robots, and radar-camera fusion systems have gained popularity due to their complementary sensing capabilities. However, accurate calibration between these two sensors is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Lei Cheng , Siyang Cao

Accurate calibration of sensor extrinsic parameters for ground robotic systems (i.e., relative poses) is crucial for ensuring spatial alignment and achieving high-performance perception. However, existing calibration methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiang Wang , Yaozhong Kang , Linya Fu , Kazuhiro Nakadai , He Kong

Connected and cooperative driving requires precise calibration of the roadside infrastructure for having a reliable perception system. To solve this requirement in an automated manner, we present a robust extrinsic calibration method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Alexander Tsaregorodtsev , Adrian Holzbock , Jan Strohbeck , Michael Buchholz , Vasileios Belagiannis

Sensor-based environmental perception is a crucial step for autonomous driving systems, for which an accurate calibration between multiple sensors plays a critical role. For the calibration of LiDAR and camera, the existing method is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Guohang Yan , Feiyu He , Chunlei Shi , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

We present a Gaussian Splatting-based framework for hand-eye calibration of the da Vinci surgical robot. In a vision-guided robotic system, accurate estimation of the rigid transformation between the robot base and the camera frame is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zijian Wu , Shuojue Yang , Yu Chung Lee , Eitan Prisman , Yueming Jin , Septimiu E. Salcudean

Extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-sensor fusion, existing methods rely on structured targets or fully-excited data, limiting real-world applicability. Online calibration further suffers from weak excitation, leading to unreliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Baorun Li , Chengrui Zhu , Siyi Du , Bingran Chen , Jie Ren , Wenfei Wang , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv

In this paper, we present PTZ-Calib, a robust two-stage PTZ camera calibration method, that efficiently and accurately estimates camera parameters for arbitrary viewpoints. Our method includes an offline and an online stage. In the offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jinhui Guo , Lubin Fan , Bojian Wu , Jiaqi Gu , Shen Cao , Jieping Ye

Precise sensor calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles as a prerequisite for perception algorithms to function properly. Rotation error of one degree can translate to position error of meters in target object detection at large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhongyuan Li , Honggang Gou , Ping Li , Jiaotong Guo , Mao Ye

In this paper, we present TEScalib, a novel extrinsic self-calibration approach of LiDAR and stereo camera using the geometric and photometric information of surrounding environments without any calibration targets for automated driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Haohao Hu , Fengze Han , Frank Bieder , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

Advances in autonomous driving are inseparable from sensor fusion. Heterogeneous sensors are widely used for sensor fusion due to their complementary properties, with radar and camera being the most equipped sensors. Intrinsic and extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Sensor setups of robotic platforms commonly include both camera and LiDAR as they provide complementary information. However, fusing these two modalities typically requires a highly accurate calibration between them. In this paper, we…

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