A minimal solution for the extrinsic calibration of a camera and a laser-rangefinder

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2097-2107

  Vasconcelos, Francisco ^a   Barreto, João P ^a   Nunes, Urbano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

euclidean registration; Extrinsic calibration; laser rangefinder; minimal problems; sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDEAN; EXTRINSIC CALIBRATION; LASER RANGE-FINDER; MINIMAL PROBLEMS; SENSOR FUSION;

CAMERAS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; RANGE FINDERS; SENSORS;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84866664464     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2012.18     Document Type: Article

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