CalQNet -- Detection of Calibration Quality for Life-Long Stereo Camera Setups
Jiapeng Zhong, Zheyu Ye, Andrei Cramariuc, Florian Tschopp, Jen Jen, Chung, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena

TL;DR
This paper introduces CalQNet, a deep learning-based method for real-time detection of calibration quality in stereo camera systems, helping autonomous robots identify when recalibration is needed to prevent system failures.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel dataset generation pipeline and a deep neural network to estimate stereo calibration quality from a single frame, enabling early detection of calibration degradation.
Findings
CalQNet accurately predicts calibration quality in real-world scenarios.
The method can forecast stereo-visual odometry divergence due to calibration issues.
Single-frame analysis suffices for calibration quality assessment.
Abstract
Many mobile robotic platforms rely on an accurate knowledge of the extrinsic calibration parameters, especially systems performing visual stereo matching. Although a number of accurate stereo camera calibration methods have been developed, which provide good initial "factory" calibrations, the determined parameters can lose their validity over time as the sensors are exposed to environmental conditions and external effects. Thus, on autonomous platforms on-board diagnostic methods for an early detection of the need to repeat calibration procedures have the potential to prevent critical failures of crucial systems, such as state estimation or obstacle detection. In this work, we present a novel data-driven method to estimate the calibration quality and detect discrepancies between the original calibration and the current system state for stereo camera systems. The framework consists of a…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Vision and Imaging · Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization · Image Processing Techniques and Applications
