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Target-less camera-LiDAR extrinsic calibration using a bagged dependence estimator


Abstract:

The goal of this study is to achieve automatic extrinsic calibration of a camera-LiDAR system that does not require calibration targets. Calibration through maximization ...Show More

Abstract:

The goal of this study is to achieve automatic extrinsic calibration of a camera-LiDAR system that does not require calibration targets. Calibration through maximization of statistical dependence using mutual information (MI) is a promising approach. However, we observed that existing methods perform poorly on outdoor data sets. Because of their susceptibility to noise, objective functions of previous methods tend to be non-smooth, and gradient-based searches fail in local optima. To overcome these issues, we introduce a novel dependence estimator called bagged least-squares mutual information (BLSMI). BLSMI is a combination of methods composed of a kernel-based dependence estimator and noise reduction by bootstrap aggregating (bagging), which can handle richer features and robustly estimate dependence. We compared ours with previous methods using indoor and outdoor data sets, and observed that our method performed best in terms of calibration accuracy. While previous methods showed degraded performance on outdoor data sets because of the local optima problem, our method exhibited high calibration accuracy both on indoor and outdoor data sets.
Date of Conference: 21-25 August 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 17 November 2016
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 2161-8089
Conference Location: Fort Worth, TX, USA

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