eKalibr-Inertial: Continuous-Time Spatiotemporal Calibration for Event-Based Visual-Inertial Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05923v1
• Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:44:56 GMT
• Title: eKalibr-Inertial: Continuous-Time Spatiotemporal Calibration for Event-Based Visual-Inertial Systems
• Authors: Shuolong Chen, Xingxing Li, Liu Yuan,
• Abstract summary: In ego-motion estimation, the visual-inertial setup is commonly adopted due to complementary characteristics between sensors.<n>eKalibr-Inertial is an accuratetemporal calibrator for event-based visual-inertial systems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The bioinspired event camera, distinguished by its exceptional temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption, has been extensively studied in recent years for motion estimation, robotic perception, and object detection. In ego-motion estimation, the visual-inertial setup is commonly adopted due to complementary characteristics between sensors (e.g., scale perception and low drift). For optimal event-based visual-inertial fusion, accurate spatiotemporal (extrinsic and temporal) calibration is required. In this work, we present eKalibr-Inertial, an accurate spatiotemporal calibrator for event-based visual-inertial systems, utilizing the widely used circle grid board. Building upon the grid pattern recognition and tracking methods in eKalibr and eKalibr-Stereo, the proposed method starts with a rigorous and efficient initialization, where all parameters in the estimator would be accurately recovered. Subsequently, a continuous-time-based batch optimization is conducted to refine the initialized parameters toward better states. The results of extensive real-world experiments show that eKalibr-Inertial can achieve accurate event-based visual-inertial spatiotemporal calibration. The implementation of eKalibr-Inertial is open-sourced at (https://github.com/Unsigned-Long/eKalibr) to benefit the research community.

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