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CLRNet: Targetless Extrinsic Calibration for Camera, Lidar and 4D Radar Using Deep Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-18 v1

Abstract

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 learning (DL) calibration network capable of addressing joint camera-lidar-radar calibration, or pairwise calibration between any two of these sensors. We incorporate equirectangular projection, camera-based depth image prediction, additional radar channels, and leverage lidar with a shared feature space and loop closure loss. In extensive experiments using the View-of-Delft and Dual-Radar datasets, we demonstrate superior calibration accuracy compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, reducing both median translational and rotational calibration errors by at least 50%. Finally, we examine the domain transfer capabilities of the proposed network and baselines, when evaluating across datasets. The code will be made publicly available upon acceptance at: https://github.com/tudelft-iv.

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@article{arxiv.2603.15767,
  title  = {CLRNet: Targetless Extrinsic Calibration for Camera, Lidar and 4D Radar Using Deep Learning},
  author = {Marcell Kegl and Andras Palffy and Csaba Benedek and Dariu M. Gavrila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.15767},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:23:00.266Z