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Conventional SLAM systems using visual or LiDAR data often struggle in poor lighting and severe weather. Although 4D radar is suited for such environments, its sparse and noisy point clouds hinder accurate odometry estimation, while the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhiheng Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Shen , Yichen Zhao , Zheng Fang

In this paper, an automatic labelling process is presented for automotive datasets, leveraging on complementary information from LiDAR and camera. The generated labels are then used as ground truth with the corresponding 4D radar data as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Botao Sun , Ignacio Roldan , Francesco Fioranelli

LiDAR and 4D radar are widely used in autonomous driving and robotics. While LiDAR provides rich spatial information, 4D radar offers velocity measurement and remains robust under adverse conditions. As a result, increasing studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiangyuan Peng , Miao Tang , Huawei Sun , Bierzynski Kay , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

This paper proposes FAST-Calib, a fast and user-friendly LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration tool based on a custom-made 3D target. FAST-Calib supports both mechanical and solid-state LiDARs by leveraging an efficient and reliable edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chunran Zheng , Fu Zhang

Compared to the onboard camera and laser scanner, radar sensor provides lighting and weather invariant sensing, which is naturally suitable for long-term localization under adverse conditions. However, radar data is sparse and noisy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Huan Yin , Runjian Chen , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Sensor setups consisting of a combination of 3D range scanner lasers and stereo vision systems are becoming a popular choice for on-board perception systems in vehicles; however, the combined use of both sources of information implies a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Carlos Guindel , Jorge Beltrán , David Martín , Fernando García

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-modal data fusion in robotic perception systems. However, existing approaches typically rely on handcrafted calibration targets (e.g., checkerboards) or specific, static scene types,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Huang , Yanwei Fu , Yi Zhou , Xieyuanli Chen , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Owing to the capability for reliable and all-weather long-range sensing, the fusion of LiDAR and Radar has been widely applied to autonomous vehicles for robust perception. In practical operation, well manually calibrated extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Weimin Wang , Yu Du , Ting Yang , Yu Liu

Sensor fusion is essential for autonomous driving and autonomous robots, and radar-camera fusion systems have gained popularity due to their complementary sensing capabilities. However, accurate calibration between these two sensors is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Lei Cheng , Siyang Cao

Today's autonomous vehicles rely on a multitude of sensors to perceive their environment. To improve the perception or create redundancy, the sensor's alignment relative to each other must be known. With Multi-LiCa, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dominik Kulmer , Ilir Tahiraj , Andrii Chumak , Markus Lienkamp

Camera-to-robot (also known as eye-to-hand) calibration is a critical component of vision-based robot manipulation. Traditional marker-based methods often require human intervention for system setup. Furthermore, existing autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Podshara Chanrungmaneekul , Yiting Chen , Joshua T. Grace , Aaron M. Dollar , Kaiyu Hang

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

We present an approach to automatically generate semantic labels for real recordings of automotive range-Doppler (RD) radar spectra. Such labels are required when training a neural network for object recognition from radar data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Christopher Grimm , Tai Fei , Ernst Warsitz , Ridha Farhoud , Tobias Breddermann , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Recently, 4D millimetre-wave radar exhibits more stable perception ability than LiDAR and camera under adverse conditions (e.g. rain and fog). However, low-quality radar points hinder its application, especially the odometry task that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiheng Li , Yubo Cui , Ningyuan Huang , Chenglin Pang , Zheng Fang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar systems with large array have pushed radar sensing into a new era, thanks to their high angular resolution. However, our long-term experiments indicate that array elements exhibit phase drift over time and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ruixu Geng , Yadong Li , Dongheng Zhang , Pengcheng Huang , Binquan Wang , Binbin Zhang , Zhi Lu , Yang Hu , Yan Chen

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

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

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…

For autonomous vehicles, an accurate calibration for LiDAR and camera is a prerequisite for multi-sensor perception systems. However, existing calibration techniques require either a complicated setting with various calibration targets, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tao Ma , Zhizheng Liu , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

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…

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