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The combination of LiDARs and cameras enables a mobile robot to perceive environments with multi-modal data, becoming a key factor in achieving robust perception. Traditional frame cameras are sensitive to changing illumination conditions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianhao Jiao , Feiyi Chen , Hexiang Wei , Jin Wu , Ming Liu

Stereo cameras and dense stereo matching algorithms are core components for many robotic applications due to their abilities to directly obtain dense depth measurements and their robustness against changes in lighting conditions. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yonggen Ling , Shaojie Shen

Recent direct visual odometry and SLAM algorithms have demonstrated impressive levels of precision. However, they require a photometric camera calibration in order to achieve competitive results. Hence, the respective algorithm cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Paul Bergmann , Rui Wang , Daniel Cremers

Accurate multi-sensor calibration is essential for deploying robust perception systems in applications such as autonomous driving and intelligent transportation. Existing LiDAR-camera calibration methods often rely on manually placed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lei Cheng , Lihao Guo , Tianya Zhang , Tam Bang , Austin Harris , Mustafa Hajij , Mina Sartipi , Siyang Cao

Visual-Inertial (VI) sensors are popular in robotics, self-driving vehicles, and augmented and virtual reality applications. In order to use them for any computer vision or state-estimation task, a good calibration is essential. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Christopher L. Choi , Binbin Xu , Stefan Leutenegger

Reliable multimodal sensor fusion algorithms require accurate spatiotemporal calibration. Recently, targetless calibration techniques based on implicit neural representations have proven to provide precise and robust results. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Quentin Herau , Moussab Bennehar , Arthur Moreau , Nathan Piasco , Luis Roldao , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Cyrille Migniot , Pascal Vasseur , Cédric Demonceaux

Autonomous driving has spurred the development of sensor fusion techniques, which combine data from multiple sensors to improve system performance. In particular, localization system based on sensor fusion , such as Visual Simultaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Xiaowen Tao , Pengxiang Meng , Bing Zhu , Jian Zhao

With the development of neural networks and the increasing popularity of automatic driving, the calibration of the LiDAR and the camera has attracted more and more attention. This calibration task is multi-modal, where the rich color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Pengjin Wei , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li , Kun Fang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

We propose a method for automatic calibration of a traffic surveillance camera with wide-angle lenses. Video footage of a few minutes is sufficient for the entire calibration process to take place. This method takes in the height of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Aman Gajendra Jain , Nicolas Saunier

We propose a solution for sensor extrinsic self-calibration with very low time complexity, competitive accuracy and graceful handling of often-avoided corner cases: drift in calibration parameters and unobservable directions in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Fernando Nobre , Christoffer Heckman

LiDAR-camera calibration is a precondition for many heterogeneous systems that fuse data from LiDAR and camera. However, the constraint from common field of view and the requirement for strict time synchronization make the calibration a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Bo Fu , Yue Wang , Xiaqing Ding , Yanmei Jiao , Li Tang , Rong Xiong

Accurate extrinsic calibration between multiple LiDAR sensors and a GNSS-aided inertial navigation system (GINS) is essential for achieving reliable sensor fusion in intelligent mining environments. Such calibration enables vehicle-road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Junhui Wang , Yan Qiao , Chao Gao , Naiqi Wu

A framework for online simultaneous localization, mapping and self-calibration is presented which can detect and handle significant change in the calibration parameters. Estimates are computed in constant-time by factoring the problem and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nima Keivan , Gabe Sibley

Achieving safe and reliable autonomous driving relies greatly on the ability to achieve an accurate and robust perception system; however, this cannot be fully realized without precisely calibrated sensors. Environmental and operational…

In the context of robotics, accurate ground-truth positioning is the cornerstone for the development of mapping and localization algorithms. In outdoor environments and over long distances, total stations provide accurate and precise…

This paper presents an open source LiDAR-camera calibration toolbox that is general to LiDAR and camera projection models, requires only one pairing of LiDAR and camera data without a calibration target, and is fully automatic. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

Determining the extrinsic parameter between multiple LiDARs and cameras is essential for autonomous robots, especially for solid-state LiDARs, where each LiDAR unit has a very small Field-of-View (FoV), and multiple units are often used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiyuan Liu , Chongjian Yuan , Fu Zhang

Properly-calibrated sensors are the prerequisite for a dependable autonomous driving system. However, most prior methods focus on extrinsic calibration between sensors, and few focus on the misalignment between the sensors and the vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Guohang Yan , Zhaotong Luo , Zhuochun Liu , Yikang Li

Extrinsic Calibration represents the cornerstone of autonomous driving. Its accuracy plays a crucial role in the perception pipeline, as any errors can have implications for the safety of the vehicle. Modern sensor systems collect different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lorenzo Gentilini , Pierpaolo Serio , Valentina Donzella , Lorenzo Pollini

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have enabled the task of open-vocabulary segmentation. CLIP demonstrates impressive zero-shot capabilities in various downstream tasks that require holistic image…

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