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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

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

With the advent of autonomous vehicles, LiDAR and cameras have become an indispensable combination of sensors. They both provide rich and complementary data which can be used by various algorithms and machine learning to sense and make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Ankit Dhall , Kunal Chelani , Vishnu Radhakrishnan , K. M. Krishna

In autonomous systems, sensor calibration is essential for safe and efficient navigation in dynamic environments. Accurate calibration is a prerequisite for reliable perception and planning tasks such as object detection and obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ilir Tahiraj , Markus Edinger , Dominik Kulmer , Markus Lienkamp

Accurate extrinsic sensor calibration is essential for both autonomous vehicles and robots. Traditionally this is an involved process requiring calibration targets, known fiducial markers and is generally performed in a lab. Moreover, even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Celyn Walters , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

This paper proposes an automated method to obtain the extrinsic calibration parameters between a camera and a 3D lidar with as low as 16 beams. We use a checkerboard as a reference to obtain features of interest in both sensor frames. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Surabhi Verma , Julie Stephany Berrio , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

This paper introduces a novel targetless method for joint intrinsic and extrinsic calibration of LiDAR-camera systems using plane-constrained bundle adjustment (BA). Our method leverages LiDAR point cloud measurements from planes in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Liang Li , Haotian Li , Xiyuan Liu , Dongjiao He , Ziliang Miao , Fanze Kong , Rundong Li , Zheng Liu , Fu Zhang

Reliable operation in inclement weather is essential to the deployment of safe autonomous vehicles (AVs). Robustness and reliability can be achieved by fusing data from the standard AV sensor suite (i.e., lidars, cameras) with weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Emmett Wise , Juraj Peršić , Christopher Grebe , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and SLAM technology, the performance of autonomous systems using multimodal sensors highly relies on accurate extrinsic calibration. Addressing the need for a convenient, maintenance-friendly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wonho Song , Minho Oh , Jaeyoung Lee , Hyun Myung

Accurate camera-LiDAR calibration is a prerequisite for robust multi-modal perception in robotics. Recent target-less approaches based on deep point correspondences achieve remarkable performance for extrinsic calibration but assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Simon Bultmann , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

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

In this paper, we address extrinsic calibration for camera, lidar, and 4D radar sensors. Accurate extrinsic calibration of radar remains a challenge due to the sparsity of its data. We propose CLRNet, a novel, multi-modal end-to-end deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Marcell Kegl , Andras Palffy , Csaba Benedek , Dariu M. Gavrila

We demonstrate a multi-lidar calibration framework for large mobile platforms that jointly calibrate the extrinsic parameters of non-overlapping Field-of-View (FoV) lidar sensors, without the need for any external calibration aid. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Navid Mahabadi , Addi Djikic , Cesar Nassir , Saikat Chatterjee , Maurice Fallon

Recently, multi-sensors fusion has achieved significant progress in the field of automobility to improve navigation and position performance. As the prerequisite of the fusion algorithm, the demand for the extrinsic calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hou lanhua

Accurate LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is a precondition for many multi-sensor systems in mobile robots. Most calibration methods rely on laborious manual operations and calibration targets. While working online, the calibration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xin Jing , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Huanjun Deng , Yue Wang

In this paper, we present a user-friendly LiDAR-camera calibration toolkit that is compatible with various LiDAR and camera sensors and requires only a single pair of laser points and a camera image in targetless environments. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Haoxin Zhang , Shuaixin Li , Xiaozhou Zhu , Hongbo Chen , Wen Yao

In multimodal perception systems, achieving precise extrinsic calibration between LiDAR and camera is of critical importance. Previous calibration methods often required specific targets or manual adjustments, making them both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Xingchen Li , Yifan Duan , Beibei Wang , Haojie Ren , Guoliang You , Yu Sheng , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

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

Cameras and LiDAR are essential sensors for autonomous vehicles. The fusion of camera and LiDAR data addresses the limitations of individual sensors but relies on precise extrinsic calibration. Recently, numerous end-to-end calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ni Ou , Zhuo Chen , Xinru Zhang , Junzheng Wang

Accurate extrinsic calibration between LiDAR and camera sensors is important for reliable perception in autonomous systems. In this paper, we present a novel multi-objective optimization framework that jointly minimizes the geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Venkat Karramreddy , Rangarajan Ramanujam