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DRIVE-C: A Controlled Corruption Dataset for Autonomous Driving

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-12 v1

Abstract

DRIVE-C is a controlled corruption dataset designed to evaluate visual perception robustness in autonomous driving systems. It is built from real-world forward-facing driving videos collected across daytime, nighttime, urban, rural, freeway, and parking environments. Clean clips are anonymized via localized face and license plate blurring, then transformed with physics-inspired synthetic degradations. The dataset contains 10 clean clips and 600 corrupted clips spanning 12 camera degradation types across five severity levels, with per-clip metadata and Global Sensor Health Index (GSHI) annotations. DRIVE-C supports robustness benchmarking, degradation-aware modeling, uncertainty estimation, out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, and sensor health monitoring for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). By providing pixel-aligned clean and degraded video clips with fully reproducible corruption parameters, DRIVE-C offers a structured testbed for studying perception reliability under controlled camera degradation.

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@article{arxiv.2605.09774,
  title  = {DRIVE-C: A Controlled Corruption Dataset for Autonomous Driving},
  author = {Shiva Aher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09774},
  year   = {2026}
}