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For vehicle autonomy, driver assistance and situational awareness, it is necessary to operate at day and night, and in all weather conditions. In particular, long wave infrared (LWIR) sensors that receive predominantly emitted radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Marcel Sheeny , Andrew Wallace , Mehryar Emambakhsh , Sen Wang , Barry Connor

Recently, self-driving vehicles have been introduced with several automated features including lane-keep assistance, queuing assistance in traffic-jam, parking assistance and crash avoidance. These self-driving vehicles and intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mourad A. Kenk , Mahmoud Hassaballah

Autonomous vehicles face major perception and navigation challenges in adverse weather such as rain, fog, and snow, which degrade the performance of LiDAR, RADAR, and RGB camera sensors. While each sensor type offers unique strengths, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nour Alhuda Albashir , Lars Pernickel , Danial Hamoud , Idriss Gouigah , Eren Erdal Aksoy

The vehicle's perception sensors radar, lidar and camera, which must work continuously and without restriction, especially with regard to automated/autonomous driving, can lose performance due to unfavourable weather conditions. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Fatih Sezgin , Daniel Vriesman , Dagmar Steinhauser , Robert Lugner , Thomas Brandmeier

We consider the object recognition problem in autonomous driving using automotive radar sensors. Comparing to Lidar sensors, radar is cost-effective and robust in all-weather conditions for perception in autonomous driving. However, radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Peizhao Li , Pu Wang , Karl Berntorp , Hongfu Liu

Autonomous vehicles are conceived to provide safe and secure services by validating the safety standards as indicated by SOTIF-ISO/PAS-21448 (Safety of the intended functionality). Keeping in this context, the perception of the environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shoaib Azam , Farzeen Munir , Moongu Jeon

Autonomous radar has been an integral part of advanced driver assistance systems due to its robustness to adverse weather and various lighting conditions. Conventional automotive radars use digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xu Dong , Pengluo Wang , Pengyue Zhang , Langechuan Liu

Object detection in thermal infrared spectrum provides more reliable data source in low-lighting conditions and different weather conditions, as it is useful both in-cabin and outside for pedestrian, animal, and vehicular detection as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Peter Corcoran , Cosmin Rotariu , Waseem Shariff

Enhancing the robustness of object detection systems under adverse weather conditions is crucial for the advancement of autonomous driving technology. This study presents a novel approach leveraging the diffusion model Instruct Pix2Pix to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Unai Gurbindo , Axel Brando , Jaume Abella , Caroline König

Unlike RGB cameras that use visible light bands (384$\sim$769 THz) and Lidars that use infrared bands (361$\sim$331 THz), Radars use relatively longer wavelength radio bands (77$\sim$81 GHz), resulting in robust measurements in adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Kong , Kevin Tirta Wijaya

Autonomous vehicles rely on their perception systems to acquire information about their immediate surroundings. It is necessary to detect the presence of other vehicles, pedestrians and other relevant entities. Safety concerns and the need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 You Li , Javier Ibanez-Guzman

LiDAR sensors provide high-resolution 3D perception and long-range detection, making them indispensable for autonomous driving and robotics. However, their performance significantly degrades under adverse weather conditions such as snow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ji-il Park , Inwook Shim

Automotive radar has increasingly attracted attention due to growing interest in autonomous driving technologies. Acquiring situational awareness using multimodal data collected at high sampling rates by various sensing devices including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Madhumitha Sakthi , Ahmed Tewfik , Marius Arvinte , Haris Vikalo

Perception plays an important role in reliable decision-making for autonomous vehicles. Over the last ten years, huge advances have been made in the field of perception. However, perception in extreme weather conditions is still a difficult…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Kaige Wang , Long Chen , TIanming Wang , Qixiang Meng , Huatao Jiang , Lin Chang

Autonomous driving requires a detailed understanding of complex driving scenes. The redundancy and complementarity of the vehicle's sensors provide an accurate and robust comprehension of the environment, thereby increasing the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arthur Ouaknine

Car detection is an important task that serves as a crucial prerequisite for many automated driving functions. The large variations in lighting/weather conditions and vehicle densities of the scenes pose significant challenges to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wen Dong , Haiyang Mei , Ziqi Wei , Ao Jin , Sen Qiu , Qiang Zhang , Xin Yang

Automated Driving Systems (ADS) open up a new domain for the automotive industry and offer new possibilities for future transportation with higher efficiency and comfortable experiences. However, autonomous driving under adverse weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuxiao Zhang , Alexander Carballo , Hanting Yang , Kazuya Takeda

Adverse weather conditions, including snow, rain, and fog, pose a major challenge for both human and computer vision. Handling these environmental conditions is essential for safe decision making, especially in autonomous vehicles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Zheng Shi , Ethan Tseng , Mario Bijelic , Werner Ritter , Felix Heide

One of the main paths towards the reduction of traffic accidents is the increase in vehicle safety through driver assistance systems or even systems with a complete level of autonomy. In these types of systems, tasks such as obstacle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Felipe Manfio Barbosa , Fernando Santos Osório

Radars are widely used to obtain echo information for effective prediction, such as precipitation nowcasting. In this paper, recent relevant scientific investigation and practical efforts using Deep Learning (DL) models for weather radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Qi Liu , Zhiyun Yang , Ru Ji , Yonghong Zhang , Muhammad Bilal , Xiaodong Liu , S Vimal , Xiaolong Xu