arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Camera Calibration Using Inaccurate and Asynchronous Discrete GPS Trajectory from Drones

The paper tackles the problem of calibrating a stationary camera’s yaw, pitch, and roll using a drone’s GPS trajectory, which suffers from altitude bias, time offset, and discrete sampling. It formulates a parameter estimation problem that jointly estimates the GPS altitude bias, time offset, and camera orientation biases, and proposes a maximum likelihood estimator based on Iterated Least Squares to handle the asynchronous, discrete GPS data. Simulation results show the estimator achieves accuracy close to the Cramér–Rao Lower Bound, with a recommended drone trajectory yielding calibration errors within 14% of the measurement error standard deviation.

By R. Yang, Y. Bar-Shalom, H. A. J. Huang
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Information-Aided DVL Calibration

arXiv:2606. 31216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Doppler velocity log (DVL) velocity measurements are critical to the accuracy of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) navigation solutions and, consequently, to mission success.

By Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik Klein
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

Differential 6-DOF Pose Estimation with Provable First-Order Immunity to Camera Calibration Errors

Accurate six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, autonomous systems, and structural displacement monitoring. Conventional 3D-2D methods estimate absolute camera poses independently at each time and recover platform motion through camera-to-platform extrinsics, making them sensitive to extrinsic calibration errors, especially for micromotion.