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With information from multiple input modalities, sensor fusion-based algorithms usually out-perform their single-modality counterparts in robotics. Camera and LIDAR, with complementary semantic and depth information, are the typical choices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Akio Kodaira , Yiyang Zhou , Pengwei Zang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Existing calibration methods occasionally fail for large field-of-view cameras due to the non-linearity of the underlying problem and the lack of good initial values for all parameters of the used camera model. This might occur because a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yaroslava Lochman , Kostiantyn Liepieshov , Jianhui Chen , Michal Perdoch , Christopher Zach , James Pritts

In view of contemporary panoramic camera-laser scanner system, the traditional calibration method is not suitable for panoramic cameras whose imaging model is extremely nonlinear. The method based on statistical optimization has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Mingwei Cao , Ming Yang , Chunxiang Wang , Yeqiang Qian , Bing Wang

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

Occlusion-free video generation is challenging due to surgeons' obstructions in the camera field of view. Prior work has addressed this issue by installing multiple cameras on a surgical light, hoping some cameras will observe the surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuna Kato , Mariko Isogawa , Shohei Mori , Hideo Saito , Hiroki Kajita , Yoshifumi Takatsume

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

Monocular camera sensors are vital to intelligent vehicle operation and automated driving assistance and are also heavily employed in traffic control infrastructure. Calibrating the monocular camera, though, is time-consuming and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Alexander Tsaregorodtsev , Johannes Müller , Jan Strohbeck , Martin Herrmann , Michael Buchholz , Vasileios Belagiannis

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

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

Calibration of multi-camera systems, i.e. determining the relative poses between the cameras, is a prerequisite for many tasks in computer vision and robotics. Camera calibration is typically achieved using offline methods that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Bastian Pätzold , Simon Bultmann , Sven Behnke

Multiple lidars are prevalently used on mobile vehicles for rendering a broad view to enhance the performance of localization and perception systems. However, precise calibration of multiple lidars is challenging since the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jianhao Jiao , Qinghai Liao , Yilong Zhu , Tianyu Liu , Yang Yu , Rui Fan , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Existing camera-projector calibration methods typically warp feature points from a camera image to a projector image using estimated homographies, and often suffer from errors in camera parameters and noise due to imperfect planarity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Bingyao Huang , Samed Ozdemir , Ying Tang , Chunyuan Liao , Haibin Ling

In robotics, motion capture systems have been widely used to measure the accuracy of localization algorithms. Moreover, this infrastructure can also be used for other computer vision tasks, such as the evaluation of Visual (-Inertial) SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Junlin Song , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

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

Accurate camera calibration is a fundamental task for 3D perception, especially when dealing with real-world, in-the-wild environments where complex optical distortions are common. Existing methods often rely on pre-rectified images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Liuyue Xie , Jiancong Guo , Ozan Cakmakci , Andre Araujo , Laszlo A. Jeni , Zhiheng Jia

We investigate methods to calibrate the non-common path aberrations at an adaptive optics system having a wavefront-correcting device working at an extremely high resolution (larger than 150x150). We use focal-plane images collected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Visa Korkiakoski , Christoph U. Keller , Niek Doelman , Matthew Kenworthy , Gilles Otten , Michel Verhaegen

Multi-modal object detection in autonomous driving has achieved great breakthroughs due to the usage of fusing complementary information from different sensors. The calibration in fusion between sensors such as LiDAR and camera was always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zhihang Song , Dingyi Yao , Ruibo Ming , Lihui Peng , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

We address the problem of epipolar geometry using the motion of silhouettes. Such methods match epipolar lines or frontier points across views, which are then used as the set of putative correspondences. We introduce an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Gil Ben-Artzi

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

Determining the position and orientation of a calibrated camera from a single image with respect to a 3D model is an essential task for many applications. When 2D-3D correspondences can be obtained reliably, perspective-n-point solvers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Dylan Campbell , Lars Petersson , Laurent Kneip , Hongdong Li , Stephen Gould