无需标定板,开车时自动完成多传感器精准校准。
UniCal: Unified Neural Sensor Calibration

- 用可微渲染构建统一场景表示,联合优化传感器参数与场景
- 在多个数据集上精度媲美或超越现有方法,效率显著提升
- 适合大规模自动驾驶车队快速部署,降低校准成本
自动驾驶车辆需精准校准激光雷达与摄像头以融合传感器数据。传统方法依赖受控场景中的标定板,成本高且难规模化。本文提出UniCal,一种无需特定标定物的统一校准框架,基于可微场景表示生成多视角几何与光度一致的传感器观测,通过可微体渲染联合学习传感器校准与场景结构。该“边开边校”方式大幅降低运营成本,支持大规模车队高效校准。为保证跨传感器观测的几何一致性,引入结合特征配准与神经渲染的新表面对齐损失。在多个数据集上的全面评估表明,UniCal性能优于或匹配现有方法,同时更高效,验证了其在可扩展校准中的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) require accurate calibration of LiDARs and cameras to fuse sensor data accurately for autonomy. Traditional calibration methods typically leverage fiducials captured in a controlled and structured scene and compute correspondences to optimize over. These approaches are costly and require substantial infrastructure and operations, making it challenging to scale for vehicle fleets. In this work, we propose UniCal, a unified framework for effortlessly calibrating SDVs equipped with multiple LiDARs and cameras. Our approach is built upon a differentiable scene representation capable of rendering multi-view geometrically and photometrically consistent sensor observations. We jointly learn the sensor calibration and the underlying scene representation through differentiable volume rendering, utilizing outdoor sensor data without the need for specific calibration fiducials. This "drive-and-calibrate" approach significantly reduces costs and operational overhead compared to existing calibration systems, enabling efficient calibration for large SDV fleets at scale. To ensure geometric consistency across observations from different sensors, we introduce a novel surface alignment loss that combines feature-based registration with neural rendering. Comprehensive evaluations on multiple datasets demonstrate that UniCal outperforms or matches the accuracy of existing calibration approaches while being more efficient, demonstrating the value of UniCal for scalable calibration.
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