Single Frame Lidar and Stereo Camera Calibration Using Registration of 3D Planes

Abstract

This work focuses on finding the extrinsic parameters (rotation and translation) between the lidar and the stereo camera setups. We use a planar checkerboard and place it inside the Field-of-View (FOV) of both the sensors, where we extract the 3D plane information of the checkerboard acquired from the sensor’s data. The planes extracted from the sensor’s data are used as reference data sets to find the relative transformation between the two sensors. We use our proposed method Correntropy Similarity Matrix Iterative Closest Point (CoSM-ICP) algorithm to estimate the relative transformation. In this work, we use a single frame of the point cloud data acquired from the lidar sensor and a single frame from the calibrated Stereo camera point cloud to perform this operation. We evaluate our approach on a simulated dataset since it has the freedom to evaluate under multiple configurations. Through results, we verify our approach under various configurations.