ZED 2i Research

Research

  • Comparing Commercial Depth Sensor Accuracy for Medical Applications - 2026-06-11 - Research Publication - Depth estimation has numerous medical and surgical applications. Specifically, the Intel RealSense D405 (Intel RealSense, United States), PMD Flexx2 (pmdtechnologies, Germany), Stereolabs ZED 2i (Stereolabs, France), and… - source: arxiv.org
  • Finite-time Stable Pose Estimation on TSE(3) using Point Cloud and Velocity Sensors - 2026-02-10 - Research Publication - This work presents a finite-time stable pose estimator (FTS-PE) for rigid bodies undergoing rotational and translational motion in three dimensions, using measurements from onboard sensors that provide position vectors to… - source: arxiv.org
  • Reliability assessment of markerless technologies in biomechanical motion analysis: a performance comparison - 2026-01-12 - Research Publication - In these areas, it is crucial to identify the most accurate and appropriate system for the intended design of the study. The systems assessed include StereoLabs ZED 2i, MediaPipe (2D and 3D), and YOLOv8 Pose (8n and 8x-p6). - source: doi.org
  • A Modular Architecture Design for Autonomous Driving Racing in Controlled Environments - 2025-12-03 - Research Publication - The perception module employs YOLOv11 for real-time traffic cone detection, achieving 0.93 mAP@0.5 on the FSOCO dataset, combined with neural stereo depth estimation from a ZED 2i camera for 3D cone localization with… - source: arxiv.org
  • Think Fast: Real-Time Kinodynamic Belief-Space Planning for Projectile Interception - 2025-11-30 - Research Publication - This problem becomes further complicated in the presence of sensor noise because noisy sensors provide, at best, incomplete information, which results in a distribution over target states to be intercepted. The authors… - source: arxiv.org
  • High-Precision 3D Recognition of Road Potholes Based on Binocular Vision and Cross-Modal Feature Fusion - 2025-11-26 - Research Publication - To address the issues of high cost and poor environmental adaptability in existing detection methods, this study proposes a lightweight pothole detection and 3D reconstruction method based on binocular stereo vision and… - source: doi.org
  • Imagination at Inference: Synthesizing In-Hand Views for Robust Visuomotor Policy Inference - 2025-09-19 - Research Publication - The paper synthesises in-hand views at inference time to improve visuomotor manipulation policies. Physical experiments use ZED 2i as the external perception platform. The evaluation studies robustness when direct… - source: arxiv.org
  • Manipulation as in Simulation: Enabling Accurate Geometry Perception in Robots - 2025-09-02 - Research Publication - The paper studies geometry-aware perception for robotic manipulation beyond conventional 2D colour observations. Physical experiments use ZED 2i to capture distance, size and shape information. The evaluation tests whether… - source: arxiv.org
  • A Real-Time Diminished Reality Approach to Privacy in MR Collaboration - 2025-08-21 - Research Publication - This thesis presents a real-time, inpainting-based DR system designed to enable privacy control in shared-space mixed reality (MR) meetings. Removal is achieved through semantic segmentation and precise object selection… - source: arxiv.org
  • ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation - 2025-06-29 - Research Publication - ParticleFormer presents a 3D point-cloud world model for multi-object, multi-material robotic manipulation. Physical experiments use ZED 2i to capture the manipulation scene. The work connects ZED 2i perception to learned… - source: arxiv.org
  • A stereo-vision SLAM method based on Manhattan-plane constraints and point-plane collaborative optimization - 2025-05-06 - Research Publication - A stereo-vision SLAM method based on Manhattan-plane constraints and point-plane collaborative optimization. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system, this paper uses public datasets (EuRoC and KITTI) and… - source: doi.org
  • Low-Cost 3D Depth Sensors for Mobile Applications and Control Systems – Accuracy Assessments Using Surveying Techniques - 2025-02-11 - Research Publication - Low-Cost 3D Depth Sensors for Mobile Applications and Control Systems – Accuracy Assessments Using Surveying Techniques. The following devices were tested: Stereolabs ZED 2i, Stereolabs ZED, and Intel RealSense D435i depth… - source: doi.org
  • Depth accuracy analysis of the ZED 2i Stereo Camera in an indoor Environment - 2024-09-01 - Research Publication - The paper “Depth accuracy analysis of the ZED 2i Stereo Camera in an indoor Environment” was published on September 1, 2024. The paper analyzes ZED 2i depth accuracy in an indoor environment. The study’s named evaluation… - source: doi.org
  • A Benchmarking Study of Vision-Based Robotic Grasping Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis - 2023-07-21 - Research Publication - The study compares two machine-learning and two analytical vision-based robotic grasping algorithms under a common benchmarking protocol. Physical experiments use the Stereolabs ZED 2i as the perception platform. The… - source: arxiv.org
  • ZED 2i paper uses depth sensing for robotic EV charging-socket detection - 2023-02-10 - Research Publication - The paper studies automatic electric-vehicle charging socket detection for robot-based charging. The system uses the ZED 2i depth sensor to detect and extract the charging socket on a vehicle body surface. - source: doi.org
  • ZED 2i skeleton-tracking paper evaluates automatic body-orientation detection indoors - 2022-05-17 - Research Publication - The paper evaluates automatic body-orientation detection from skeleton-tracking data for indoor social-space analysis. The sensor comparison includes Kinect v2, Azure Kinect, and ZED 2i. - source: doi.org

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