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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are transforming modern transportation, but their reliability and safety are significantly challenged by harsh weather conditions such as heavy rain, fog, and snow. These environmental factors impair the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Milad Rahmati

Precipitation nowcasting is of great importance for weather forecast users, for activities ranging from outdoor activities and sports competitions to airport traffic management. In contrast to long-term precipitation forecasts which are…

Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color features to classify pixels as road or background. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jose M. Alvarez , Theo Gevers , Antonio M. Lopez

The problem of forecasting weather has been scientifically studied for centuries due to its high impact on human lives, transportation, food production and energy management, among others. Current operational forecasting models are based on…

Advances in perception for self-driving cars have accelerated in recent years due to the availability of large-scale datasets, typically collected at specific locations and under nice weather conditions. Yet, to achieve the high safety…

Weather recognition is an essential support for many practical life applications, including traffic safety, environment, and meteorology. However, many existing related works cannot comprehensively describe weather conditions due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Shengchao Chen , Ting Shu , Huan Zhao , Yuan Yan Tang

Climate change has been a common interest and the forefront of crucial political discussion and decision-making for many years. Shallow clouds play a significant role in understanding the Earth's climate, but they are challenging to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Tashin Ahmed , Noor Hossain Nuri Sabab

The short-term prediction of precipitation is critical in many areas of life. Recently, a large body of work was devoted to forecasting radar reflectivity images. The radar images are available only in areas with ground weather radars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jiří Pihrt , Rudolf Raevskiy , Petr Šimánek , Matej Choma

This paper addresses the problem of floods classification and floods aftermath detection utilizing both social media and satellite imagery. Automatic detection of disasters such as floods is still a very challenging task. The focus lies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Kashif Ahmad , Konstantin Pogorelov , Michael Riegler , Olga Ostroukhova , Paal Halvorsen , Nicola Conci , Rozenn Dahyot

The fusion of multimodal sensor streams, such as camera, lidar, and radar measurements, plays a critical role in object detection for autonomous vehicles, which base their decision making on these inputs. While existing methods exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Mario Bijelic , Tobias Gruber , Fahim Mannan , Florian Kraus , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer , Felix Heide

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can potentially provide powerful tools for classifying and identifying patterns in climate and environmental data. However, because of the inherent complexities of such data, which are often…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Ashesh Chattopadhyay , Pedram Hassanzadeh , Saba Pasha

Several popular computer vision (CV) datasets, specifically employed for Object Detection (OD) in autonomous driving tasks exhibit biases due to a range of factors including weather and lighting conditions. These biases may impair a model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Aboli Marathe , Rahee Walambe , Ketan Kotecha

Adverse weather severely impairs real-world visual perception, while existing vision models trained on synthetic data with fixed parameters struggle to generalize to complex degradations. To address this, we first construct HFLS-Weather, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Fuyang Liu , Jiaqi Xu , Xiaowei Hu

Numerical weather forecasting using high-resolution physical models often requires extensive computational resources on supercomputers, which diminishes their wide usage in most real-life applications. As a remedy, applying deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Selim Furkan Tekin , Arda Fazla , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

Saving rainforests is a key to halting adverse climate changes. In this paper, we introduce an innovative solution built on acoustic surveillance and machine learning technologies to help rainforest conservation. In particular, We propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Yuan Liu , Zhongwei Cheng , Jie Liu , Bourhan Yassin , Zhe Nan , Jiebo Luo

Reliable point cloud data is essential for perception tasks \textit{e.g.} in robotics and autonomous driving applications. Adverse weather causes a specific type of noise to light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor data, which degrades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Alvari Seppänen , Risto Ojala , Kari Tammi

Robust visual recognition under adverse weather conditions is of great importance in real-world applications. In this context, we propose a new method for learning semantic segmentation models robust against fog. Its key idea is to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sohyun Lee , Taeyoung Son , Suha Kwak

Restoration of images contaminated by different adverse weather conditions such as fog, snow, and rain is a challenging task due to the varying nature of the weather conditions. Most of the existing methods focus on any one particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kotha Kartheek , Lingamaneni Gnanesh Chowdary , Snehasis Mukherjee

Not only can discovering patterns and insights from atmospheric data enable more accurate weather predictions, but it may also provide valuable information to help tackle climate change. Weather4cast is an open competition that aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Pak Hay Kwok , Qi Qi

Machine Learning for aviation weather is a growing area of research for providing low-cost alternatives for traditional, expensive weather sensors; however, in the area of atmospheric visibility estimation, publicly available datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chad Mourning , Zhewei Wang , Justin Murray