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Weather station data is a valuable resource for climate prediction, however, its reliability can be limited in remote locations. To compound the issue, making local predictions often relies on sensor data that may not be accessible for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Iman Deznabi , Peeyush Kumar , Madalina Fiterau

We present a novel approach for unsupervised road segmentation in adverse weather conditions such as rain or fog. This includes a new algorithm for source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) using self-supervised learning. Moreover, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Divya Kothandaraman , Rohan Chandra , Dinesh Manocha

Perception systems for autonomous driving have seen significant advancements in their performance over last few years. However, these systems struggle to show robustness in extreme weather conditions because sensors like lidars and cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kshitiz Bansal , Keshav Rungta , Dinesh Bharadia

Sensor fusion is a crucial augmentation technique for improving the accuracy and reliability of perception systems for automated vehicles under diverse driving conditions. However, adverse weather and low-light conditions remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Can Cui , Yunsheng Ma , Juanwu Lu , Ziran Wang

Accurate LiDAR simulation is crucial for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather conditions. Existing methods struggle to capture the complex interactions between LiDAR signals and atmospheric phenomena, leading to unrealistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Vivek Anand , Bharat Lohani , Rakesh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey

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

The impact of snowfall on 3D object detection performance remains underexplored. Conducting such an evaluation requires a dataset with sufficient labelled data from both weather conditions, ideally captured in the same driving environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mei Qi Tang , Sean Sedwards , Chengjie Huang , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Underexposure regions are vital to construct a complete perception of the surroundings for safe autonomous driving. The availability of thermal cameras has provided an essential alternate to explore regions where other optical sensors lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Farzeen Munir , Shoaib Azam , Muhammd Aasim Rafique , Ahmad Muqeem Sheri , Moongu Jeon , Witold Pedrycz

Current autonomous driving algorithms heavily rely on the visible spectrum, which is prone to performance degradation in adverse conditions like fog, rain, snow, glare, and high contrast. Although other spectral bands like near-infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Youngwan Jin , Michal Kovac , Yagiz Nalcakan , Hyeongjin Ju , Hanbin Song , Sanghyeop Yeo , Shiho Kim

This work addresses the problem of semantic scene understanding under foggy road conditions. Although marked progress has been made in semantic scene understanding over the recent years, it is mainly concentrated on clear weather outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Martin Hahner , Dengxin Dai , Christos Sakaridis , Jan-Nico Zaech , Luc Van Gool

Single image rain removal is a typical inverse problem in computer vision. The deep learning technique has been verified to be effective for this task and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, previous deep learning methods need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Wei Wei , Deyu Meng , Qian Zhao , Zongben Xu , Ying Wu

In particular, the lack of sufficient amounts of domain-specific data can reduce the accuracy of a classifier. In this paper, we explore the effects of style transfer-based data transformation on the accuracy of a convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yijie Xu , Arushi Goel

This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance specialized on unpaved roads and off-road environments. In this research, the authors have investigated the behavior of Deep Learning algorithms…

Appearance changes due to weather and seasonal conditions represent a strong impediment to the robust implementation of machine learning systems in outdoor robotics. While supervised learning optimises a model for the training domain, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Markus Wulfmeier , Alex Bewley , Ingmar Posner

The majority of learning-based semantic segmentation methods are optimized for daytime scenarios and favorable lighting conditions. Real-world driving scenarios, however, entail adverse environmental conditions such as nighttime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Johan Vertens , Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard

Transformer-based image restoration methods in adverse weather have achieved significant progress. Most of them use self-attention along the channel dimension or within spatially fixed-range blocks to reduce computational load. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Xinwei Gao , Rui Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Scene Change Detection is a challenging task in computer vision and robotics that aims to identify differences between two images of the same scene captured at different times. Traditional change detection methods rely on training models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

This work addresses the challenging task of LiDAR-based 3D object detection in foggy weather. Collecting and annotating data in such a scenario is very time, labor and cost intensive. In this paper, we tackle this problem by simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Martin Hahner , Christos Sakaridis , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Visual object tracking has gained promising progress in past decades. Most of the existing approaches focus on learning target representation in well-conditioned daytime data, while for the unconstrained real-world scenarios with adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Siyuan Yao , Rui Zhu , Ziqi Wang , Wenqi Ren , Yanyang Yan , Xiaochun Cao

Automotive perception systems are obligated to meet high requirements. While optical sensors such as Camera and Lidar struggle in adverse weather conditions, Radar provides a more robust perception performance, effectively penetrating fog,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Christof Leitgeb , Thomas Puchleitner , Max Peter Ronecker , Daniel Watzenig