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Current self-driving car systems operate well in sunny weather but struggle in adverse conditions. One of the most commonly encountered adverse conditions involves water on the road caused by rain, sleet, melting snow or flooding. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Chuong V. Nguyen , Michael Milford , Robert Mahony

Removing rain streaks from rainy images is necessary for many tasks in computer vision, such as object detection and recognition. It needs to address two mutually exclusive objectives: removing rain streaks and reserving realistic details.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Zheng Wang , Jianwu Li , Ge Song

In recent years, deep learning based methods have made significant progress in rain-removing. However, the existing methods usually do not have good generalization ability, which leads to the fact that almost all of existing methods have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Yinglong Wang , Haokui Zhang , Yu Liu , Qinfeng Shi , Bing Zeng

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

Removing the rain streaks from single image is still a challenging task, since the shapes and directions of rain streaks in the synthetic datasets are very different from real images. Although supervised deep deraining networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yanyan Wei , Zhao Zhang , Yang Wang , Haijun Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Mingliang Xu , Meng Wang

It is challenging to remove rain-steaks from a single rainy image because the rain steaks are spatially varying in the rainy image. This problem is studied in this paper by combining conventional image processing techniques and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Chaobing Zheng , Yuwen Li , Shiqian Wu

Optimal management of traffic light timing is one of the most effective factors in reducing urban traffic. In most old systems, fixed timing was used along with human factors to control traffic, which is not very efficient in terms of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mahdi Jamebozorg , Mohsen Hami , Sajjad Deh Deh Jani

This paper explores Deep Learning (DL) methods that are used or have the potential to be used for traffic video analysis, emphasizing driving safety for both Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and human-operated vehicles. We present a typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Abolfazl Razi , Xiwen Chen , Huayu Li , Hao Wang , Brendan Russo , Yan Chen , Hongbin Yu

Image quality degradation caused by raindrops is one of the most important but challenging problems that reduce the performance of vision systems. Most existing raindrop removal algorithms are based on a supervised learning method using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Huijiao Wang , Shenghao Zhao , Lei Yu , Xulei Yang

Ramp metering that uses traffic signals to regulate vehicle flows from the on-ramps has been widely implemented to improve vehicle mobility of the freeway. Previous studies generally update signal timings in real-time based on predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Bing Liu , Yu Tang , Yuxiong Ji , Yu Shen , Yuchuan Du

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

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

Rain removal in images is an important task in computer vision filed and attracting attentions of more and more people. In this paper, we address a non-trivial issue of removing visual effect of rain streak from a single image. Differing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yulong Fan , Rong Chen , Bo Li

Since rainy weather always degrades image quality and poses significant challenges to most computer vision-based intelligent systems, image de-raining has been a hot research topic. Fortunately, in a rainy light field (LF) image, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Tao Yan , Weijiang He , Chenglong Wang , Cihang Wei , Xiangjie Zhu , Yinghui Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Rain streaks can severely degrade the visibility, which causes many current computer vision algorithms fail to work. So it is necessary to remove the rain from images. We propose a novel deep network architecture based on deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xia Li , Jianlong Wu , Zhouchen Lin , Hong Liu , Hongbin Zha

We present a supervised technique for learning to remove rain from images without using synthetic rain software. The method is based on a two-stage data distillation approach: 1) A rainy image is first paired with a coarsely derained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Huangxing Lin , Yanlong Li , Xinghao Ding , Weihong Zeng , Yue Huang , John Paisley

Recognizing a traffic accident is an essential part of any autonomous driving or road monitoring system. An accident can appear in a wide variety of forms, and understanding what type of accident is taking place may be useful to prevent it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Aaron Lohner , Francesco Compagno , Jonathan Francis , Alessandro Oltramari

Achieving reliable and safe autonomous driving in off-road environments requires accurate and efficient terrain traversability analysis. However, this task faces several challenges, including the scarcity of large-scale datasets tailored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yafeng Bu , Zhenping Sun , Xiaohui Li , Jun Zeng , Xin Zhang , Hui Shen

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

Due to its relevance in intelligent transportation systems, anomaly detection in traffic videos has recently received much interest. It remains a difficult problem due to a variety of factors influencing the video quality of a real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Keval Doshi , Yasin Yilmaz