Calibration

Posted by Tong on November 20, 2020

Chinese Blog

Tools

Intrinsics

Camera

  1. Projection model
  2. Distortion model1
  3. Photometric calibration23

IMU

  1. kalibr
  2. IMU noise
  3. Intrinsic calibration4
  4. Degenerate motion5

Extrinsics

Camera-Camera

  1. kalibr
  2. CamOdoCal678
  3. AprilTag91011
    • As each AprilTag marker has a unique identifier, calibration will work even if multiple cameras observe different parts of the target.

Camera-IMU

  1. kalibr
  2. vmav-ros-pkg12 13 14

IMU-IMU

  1. kalibr15 16 17 18

Camera-LiDAR

  1. laser-cam-calib19 20
  2. kalibr19 21
  3. LIBCBDETECT22

Camera-Radar

Literature

  1. Brown, Duane C. “Decentering distortion of lenses.” Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (1966). 

  2. Engel, Jakob, Vladyslav Usenko, and Daniel Cremers. “A photometrically calibrated benchmark for monocular visual odometry.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02555 (2016). 

  3. Bergmann, Paul, Rui Wang, and Daniel Cremers. “Online photometric calibration of auto exposure video for realtime visual odometry and slam.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3.2 (2017): 627-634. 

  4. Yang, Yulin, et al. “Online IMU Intrinsic Calibration: Is It Necessary?.” 2020 RSS. 

  5. Yang, Yulin; Geneva, Patrick; Eckenhoff, Kevin; Huang, Guoquan. “Degenerate Motion Analysis for Aided INS with Online Spatial and Temporal Sensor Calibration.” 2019 RAL. 

  6. Lionel Heng, Bo Li, and Marc Pollefeys, CamOdoCal: Automatic Intrinsic and Extrinsic Calibration of a Rig with Multiple Generic Cameras and Odometry, In Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. 

  7. Lionel Heng, Mathias Bürki, Gim Hee Lee, Paul Furgale, Roland Siegwart, and Marc Pollefeys, Infrastructure-Based Calibration of a Multi-Camera Rig, In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics andAutomation (ICRA), 2014. 

  8. Lionel Heng, Paul Furgale, and Marc Pollefeys, Leveraging Image-based Localization for Infrastructure-basedCalibration of a Multi-camera Rig, Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), 2015. 

  9. Olson, Edwin. “AprilTag: A robust and flexible visual fiducial system.” 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE, 2011. 

  10. Wang, John, and Edwin Olson. “AprilTag 2: Efficient and robust fiducial detection.” 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2016. 

  11. Krogius, Maximilian, Acshi Haggenmiller, and Edwin Olson. “Flexible Layouts for Fiducial Tags.” IROS. 2019. 

  12. Heng, Lionel, Gim Hee Lee, and Marc Pollefeys. “Self-calibration and visual slam with a multi-camera system on a micro aerial vehicle.” Autonomous robots 39.3 (2015): 259-277. 

  13. Heng, Lionel, Gim Hee Lee, and Marc Pollefeys. “Self-calibration and visual slam with a multi-camera system on a micro aerial vehicle.” Autonomous robots 39.3 (2015): 259-277. 

  14. Heng, Lionel, Paul Furgale, and Marc Pollefeys. “Leveraging Image‐based Localization for Infrastructure‐based Calibration of a Multi‐camera Rig.” Journal of Field Robotics 32.5 (2015): 775-802. 

  15. Paul Furgale, Joern Rehder, Roland Siegwart (2013). Unified Temporal and Spatial Calibration for Multi-Sensor Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan. 

  16. Paul Furgale, T D Barfoot, G Sibley (2012). Continuous-Time Batch Estimation Using Temporal Basis Functions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2088–2095, St. Paul, MN. 

  17. Joern Rehder, Janosch Nikolic, Thomas Schneider, Timo Hinzmann, Roland Siegwart (2016). Extending kalibr: Calibrating the Extrinsics of Multiple IMUs and of Individual Axes. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden. 

  18. Zhang, Li, Zhen Liu, and C. Honghui Xia. (2002). Clock synchronization algorithms for network measurements. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. 

  19. Q. Zhang and R. Pless, “Extrinsic calibration of a camera and laser range finder (improves camera calibration),” in Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004.(IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2004, vol. 3, pp. 2301–2306.  2

  20. F. Vasconcelos, J. P. Barreto, and U. Nunes, “A Minimal Solution for the Extrinsic Calibration of a Camera and a Laser-Rangefinder,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 2097–2107, Nov. 2012. 

  21. Joern Rehder, Roland Siegwart, and Paul Furgale. “A General Approach to Spatiotemporal Calibration in Multisensor Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Robotics 32.2 (2016): 383-398. 

  22. Geiger, Andreas, et al. “Automatic camera and range sensor calibration using a single shot.” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE, 2012.