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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

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

Calibrating the extrinsic parameters of sensory devices is crucial for fusing multi-modal data. Recently, event cameras have emerged as a promising type of neuromorphic sensors, with many potential applications in fields such as mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wanli Xing , Shijie Lin , Lei Yang , Jia Pan

The integration of multiple cameras and 3D Li- DARs has become basic configuration of augmented reality devices, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. The calibration of multi-modal sensors is crucial for a system to properly function, but it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Chuan Fang , Shuai Ding , Zilong Dong , Honghua Li , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

This paper presents a novel automatic calibration system to estimate the extrinsic parameters of LiDAR mounted on a mobile platform for sensor misalignment inspection in the large-scale production of highly automated vehicles. To obtain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Ji-Hwan You , Seon Taek Oh , Jae-Eun Park , Azim Eskandarian , Young-Keun Kim

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

Targetless IMU-LiDAR extrinsic calibration methods are gaining significant attention as the importance of the IMU-LiDAR fusion system increases. Notably, existing calibration methods derive calibration parameters under the assumption that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 TaeYoung Kim , Gyuhyeon Pak , Euntai Kim

This work presents an extrinsic parameter estimation algorithm between a 3D LIDAR and a Projective Camera using a marker-less planar target, by exploiting Planar Surface Point to Plane and Planar Edge Point to back-projected Plane geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Subodh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

Sensor calibration, which can be intrinsic or extrinsic, is an essential step to achieve the measurement accuracy required for modern perception and navigation systems deployed on autonomous robots. To date, intrinsic calibration models for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Chenxi Feng , Madhav Achar , Maani Ghaffari , Jessy W. Grizzle

This work proposes a novel motion guided method for target-less self-calibration of a LiDAR and camera and use the re-projection of LiDAR points onto the image reference frame for real-time depth upsampling. The calibration parameters are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Juan Castorena , Gint Puskorius , Gaurav Pandey

Mobile robotic applications need precise information about the geometric position of the individual sensors on the platform. This information is given by the extrinsic calibration parameters which define how the sensor is rotated and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Philipp Glira , Christoph Weidinger , Johann Weichselbaum

Accurate camera-LiDAR fusion relies on precise extrinsic calibration, which fundamentally depends on establishing reliable cross-modal correspondences under potentially large misalignments. Existing learning-based methods typically project…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ni Ou , Zhuo Chen , Xinru Zhang , Junzheng Wang

The fusion of multi-modal sensors has become increasingly popular in autonomous driving and intelligent robots since it can provide richer information than any single sensor, enhance reliability in complex environments. Multi-sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Taimeng Fu , Huai Yu , Wen Yang , Yaoyu Hu , Sebastian Scherer

Cameras and LiDAR are essential sensors for autonomous vehicles. Camera-LiDAR data fusion compensate for deficiencies of stand-alone sensors but relies on precise extrinsic calibration. Many learning-based calibration methods predict…

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

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

We present a novel multi-modal extrinsic calibration framework designed to simultaneously estimate the relative poses between event cameras, LiDARs, and RGB cameras, with particular focus on the challenging event camera calibration. Core of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrea Bertogalli , Giacomo Boracchi , Luca Magri

State-of-the-art LiDAR calibration frameworks mainly use non-probabilistic registration methods such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP) and its variants. These methods suffer from biased results due to their pair-wise registration procedure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ilir Tahiraj , Felix Fent , Philipp Hafemann , Egon Ye , Markus Lienkamp

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

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

We propose an algorithm for automatic, targetless, extrinsic calibration of a LiDAR and camera system using semantic information. We achieve this goal by maximizing mutual information (MI) of semantic information between sensors, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Peng Jiang , Philip Osteen , Srikanth Saripalli