This project includes the extrinsic calibration library and gui tool for calibrating the extrinsic parameter(6-DoF rigid-body transformation) between the camera and LiDAR. This method needs convex polygon plane as calibration object and the camera intrinsic parameter(K, D) are needed (if images are not undistorted).

note: current implemention only support rectangular plane

• pcl
• ceres
• Eigen 3
• VTK
• Qt 5 (system)

we test on Ubuntu 16.04, if you already install ros kinect and then you only need to compile and install ceres-solver.

$ mkdir build& cd build
$ cmake .. 							# build library and QT GUI
$ cmake -DBUILD_PlyCal_TEST=True ..	#build test tools(only for debug usage)
$ make

We have tested the current qt-based tool with RSLidar-16, RSlidar-32, Rslidar-mems by rectangular plane. And we provide test data and config file under ./datadirectory which was collected with RSLidar-16 and usb webcam.

中文使用说明

Before using the gui tool:

1. Calibrate camera and put intrinsic parameter D, K at config file or set by gui.
2. Collect synced image(png,jpg,jpeg) and pointcloud (pcd), put them into some_place/image_orig and some_place/pointcloud directory, respectively. Name the file like 0.jpg, 1.jpg, ..., n.jpg.
   

For the method you can read the paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{8665256, 
author={Q. {Liao} and Z. {Chen} and Y. {Liu} and Z. {Wang} and M. {Liu}}, 
booktitle={2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)}, 
title={Extrinsic Calibration of Lidar and Camera with Polygon}, 
year={2018}, 
volume={}, 
number={}, 
pages={200-205}, 
keywords={calibration;cameras;feature extraction;image fusion;image sensors;micromechanical devices;optical radar;sensor fusion;stereo image processing;heterogeneous exteroceptive sensors;heterogeneous sensory systems;multisensor information;polygon board;t6/32-beam Lidar;extrinsic calibration;MEMS-Lidar;point-cloud;laser range finder;2D feature space;3D feature space;Calibration;Cameras;Laser radar;Three-dimensional displays;Sensors;Image edge detection;Two dimensional displays}, 
doi={10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665256}, 
ISSN={}, 
month={Dec},}