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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

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

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

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

Multi-agent systems, e.g., automobiles and UAVs (Unmanned Ariel Vehicles), rely on the precision of onboard sensors to accurately perceive their environment, which in turn depends on the precision of onboard sensors and reliable in-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Bichi Zhang , Holger Caesar , Raj Thilak Rajan

LiDAR Upsampling is a challenging task for the perception systems of robots and autonomous vehicles, due to the sparse and irregular structure of large-scale scene contexts. Recent works propose to solve this problem by converting LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Bin Yang , Patrick Pfreundschuh , Roland Siegwart , Marco Hutter , Peyman Moghadam , Vaishakh Patil

We present a novel method for extrinsically calibrating a camera and a 2D Laser Rangefinder (LRF) whose beams are invisible from the camera image. We show that point-to-plane constraints from a single observation of a V-shaped calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Wenbo Dong , Volkan Isler

In order to fuse measurements from multiple sensors mounted on a mobile robot, it is needed to express them in a common reference system through their relative spatial transformations. In this paper, we present a method to estimate the full…

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

Combining multiple LiDARs enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and obtain sufficient measurements, which is promising for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This paper proposes a system to achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jianhao Jiao , Haoyang Ye , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu

Conventional single LiDAR systems are inherently constrained by their limited field of view (FoV), leading to blind spots and incomplete environmental awareness, particularly on robotic platforms with strict payload limitations. Integrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jianping Li , Zhongyuan Liu , Xinhang Xu , Jinxin Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Fang Xu , Lihua Xie

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

Reliable multi-modal calibration requires identifying which observations truly constrain the extrinsic parameters and which ones mainly add noise or ambiguity. In this paper, we propose a support-map-driven approach to multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Rajitha de Silva , Grzegorz Cielniak

Real-time multi-camera 3D reconstruction is crucial for 3D perception, immersive interaction, and robotics. Existing methods struggle with multi-view fusion, camera extrinsic uncertainty, and scalability for large camera setups. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chentian Sun

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

In this paper, we propose a method of targetless and automatic Camera-LiDAR calibration. Our approach is an extension of hand-eye calibration framework to 2D-3D calibration. By using the sensor fusion odometry method, the scaled camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Sensor calibration is the fundamental block for a multi-sensor fusion system. This paper presents an accurate and repeatable LiDAR-IMU calibration method (termed LI-Calib), to calibrate the 6-DOF extrinsic transformation between the 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiajun Lv , Jinhong Xu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

Accurate 3D reconstruction using multi-camera RGB-D systems critically depends on precise extrinsic calibration to achieve proper alignment between captured views. In this paper, we introduce an iterative extrinsic calibration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Nahuel Garcia-D'Urso , Bernabe Sanchez-Sos , Jorge Azorin-Lopez , Andres Fuster-Guillo , Antonio Macia-Lillo , Higinio Mora-Mora

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Many robotics and mapping systems contain multiple sensors to perceive the environment. Extrinsic parameter calibration, the identification of the position and rotation transform between the frames of the different sensors, is critical to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Hongyu Chen , Sören Schwertfeger