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One of the most important tasks for ensuring safe autonomous driving systems is accurately detecting road traffic lights and accurately determining how they impact the driver's actions. In various real-world driving situations, a scene may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ross Greer , Akshay Gopalkrishnan , Jacob Landgren , Lulua Rakla , Anish Gopalan , Mohan Trivedi

A long road trip is fun for drivers. However, a long drive for days can be tedious for a driver to accommodate stringent deadlines to reach distant destinations. Such a scenario forces drivers to drive extra miles, utilizing extra hours…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 ANK Zaman , Prosenjit Chatterjee , Rajat Sharma

Autonomous driving is rapidly advancing, and Level 2 functions are becoming a standard feature. One of the foremost outstanding hurdles is to obtain robust visual perception in harsh weather and low light conditions where accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Mahesh M Dhananjaya , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

This paper focuses on the challenge of driver safety on the road and presents a novel system for driver drowsiness detection. In this system, to detect the falling sleep state of the driver as the sign of drowsiness, Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Maryam Hashemi , Alireza Mirrashid , Aliasghar Beheshti Shirazi

Autonomous vehicles are growing rapidly, in well-developed nations like America, Europe, and China. Tech giants like Google, Tesla, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes are building highly efficient self-driving vehicles. However, the technology is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sarita Gautam , Anuj Kumar

Freespace detection is an essential component of autonomous driving technology and plays an important role in trajectory planning. In the last decade, deep learning-based free space detection methods have been proved feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chen Min , Weizhong Jiang , Dawei Zhao , Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Imaging and perception in photon-limited scenarios is necessary for various applications, e.g., night surveillance or photography, high-speed photography, and autonomous driving. In these cases, cameras suffer from low signal-to-noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Bo Zhang , Yuchen Guo , Runzhao Yang , Zhihong Zhang , Jiayi Xie , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Low-light image enhancement is crucial for a myriad of applications, from night vision and surveillance, to autonomous driving. However, due to the inherent limitations that come in hand with capturing images in low-illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Manjushree Aithal , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Manikandtan Kartha , Gong Chen , Eashan Adhikarla , Lucas N. Kirsten , Zhicheng Fu , Nikhil A. Madhusudhana , Joe Nasti

Although huge progress has been made on scene analysis in recent years, most existing works assume the input images to be in day-time with good lighting conditions. In this work, we aim to address the night-time scene parsing (NTSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xin Tan , Ke Xu , Ying Cao , Yiheng Zhang , Lizhuang Ma , Rynson W. H. Lau

In autonomous driving, the integration of roadside perception systems is essential for overcoming occlusion challenges and enhancing the safety of Vulnerable Road Users(VRUs). While LiDAR and visual (RGB) sensors are commonly used, thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jonas Mirlach , Lei Wan , Andreas Wiedholz , Hannan Ejaz Keen , Andreas Eich

Driver distraction is a principal cause of traffic accidents. In a study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, engaging in activities such as interacting with in-car menus, consuming food or beverages, or engaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Neha Sengar , Indra Kumari , Jihui Lee , Dongsoo Har

It is hard to detect on-road objects under various lighting conditions. To improve the quality of the classifier, three techniques are used. We define subclasses to separate daytime and nighttime samples. Then we skip similar samples in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Cheng-En Wu , Yi-Ming Chan , Chien-Hung Chen , Wen-Cheng Chen , Chu-Song Chen

Off-road nighttime autonomous driving suffers from unreliable visible-light perception, making infrared modality crucial for accurate freespace detection. However, progress remains limited due to the scarcity of annotated infrared off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shuo Wang , Jilin Mei , Wenfei Guan , Shuai Wang , Yan Xing , Chen Min , Yu Hu

Safety on roads is of uttermost importance, especially in the context of autonomous vehicles. A critical need is to detect and communicate disruptive incidents early and effectively. In this paper we propose a system based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Alex Levering , Martin Tomko , Devis Tuia , Kourosh Khoshelham

Even though a significant amount of work has been done to increase the safety of transportation networks, accidents still occur regularly. They must be understood as unavoidable and sporadic outcomes of traffic networks. No public dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Walter Zimmer , Ross Greer , Daniel Lehmberg , Marc Pavel , Holger Caesar , Xingcheng Zhou , Ahmed Ghita , Mohan Trivedi , Rui Song , Hu Cao , Akshay Gopalkrishnan , Alois C. Knoll

We present an approach towards robust lane tracking for assisted and autonomous driving, particularly under poor visibility. Autonomous detection of lane markers improves road safety, and purely visual tracking is desirable for widespread…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Junaed Sattar , Jiawei Mo

As we navigate our daily commutes, the threat posed by a distracted driver is at a large, resulting in a troubling rise in traffic accidents. Addressing this safety concern, our project harnesses the analytical power of Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Amaan Aijaz Sheikh , Imaad Zaffar Khan

Perceiving text is crucial to understand semantics of outdoor scenes and hence is a critical requirement to build intelligent systems for driver assistance and self-driving. Most of the existing datasets for text detection and recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Sangeeth Reddy , Minesh Mathew , Lluis Gomez , Marcal Rusinol , Dimosthenis Karatzas. , C. V. Jawahar

Perception systems of autonomous vehicles are susceptible to occlusion, especially when examined from a vehicle-centric perspective. Such occlusion can lead to overlooked object detections, e.g., larger vehicles such as trucks or buses may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xiaofei Zhang , Yining Li , Jinping Wang , Xiangyi Qin , Ying Shen , Zhengping Fan , Xiaojun Tan

We introduce DriveIndia, a large-scale object detection dataset purpose-built to capture the complexity and unpredictability of Indian traffic environments. The dataset contains 66,986 high-resolution images annotated in YOLO format across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Rishav Kumar , D. Santhosh Reddy , P. Rajalakshmi