TrajMatch: Towards Automatic Spatio-temporal Calibration for Roadside LiDARs through Trajectory Matching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02157v1
• Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2023 12:27:01 GMT
• Title: TrajMatch: Towards Automatic Spatio-temporal Calibration for Roadside LiDARs through Trajectory Matching
• Authors: Haojie Ren, Sha Zhang, Sugang Li, Yao Li, Xinchen Li, Jianmin Ji, Yu Zhang, Yanyong Zhang
• Abstract summary: We propose TrajMatch -- the first system that can automatically calibrate for roadside LiDARs in both time and space. Experiment results show that TrajMatch can achieve a spatial calibration error of less than 10cm and a temporal calibration error of less than 1.5ms.
• Score: 12.980324010888664
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recently, it has become popular to deploy sensors such as LiDARs on the roadside to monitor the passing traffic and assist autonomous vehicle perception. Unlike autonomous vehicle systems, roadside sensors are usually affiliated with different subsystems and lack synchronization both in time and space. Calibration is a key technology which allows the central server to fuse the data generated by different location infrastructures, which can deliver improve the sensing range and detection robustness. Unfortunately, existing calibration algorithms often assume that the LiDARs are significantly overlapped or that the temporal calibration is already achieved. Since these assumptions do not always hold in the real world, the calibration results from the existing algorithms are often unsatisfactory and always need human involvement, which brings high labor costs. In this paper, we propose TrajMatch -- the first system that can automatically calibrate for roadside LiDARs in both time and space. The main idea is to automatically calibrate the sensors based on the result of the detection/tracking task instead of extracting special features. More deeply, we propose a mechanism for evaluating calibration parameters that is consistent with our algorithm, and we demonstrate the effectiveness of this scheme experimentally, which can also be used to guide parameter iterations for multiple calibration. Finally, to evaluate the performance of TrajMatch , we collect two dataset, one simulated dataset LiDARnet-sim 1.0 and a real-world dataset. Experiment results show that TrajMatch can achieve a spatial calibration error of less than 10cm and a temporal calibration error of less than 1.5ms.

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