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A major bottleneck in off-road autonomous driving research lies in the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality datasets and benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we present ORAD-3D, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the largest dataset…

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

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…

Off-road freespace detection is more challenging than on-road scenarios because of the blurred boundaries of traversable areas. Previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods employ multi-modal fusion of RGB images and LiDAR data. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Tong Sun , Hongliang Ye , Jilin Mei , Liang Chen , Fangzhou Zhao , Leiqiang Zong , Yu Hu

The Flooded Road Environments Dataset (FRED) is, to our knowledge, the first multi-modal autonomous driving dataset specifically targeting the collection of data from scenarios involving water hazards on the road. The dataset contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Connor Malone , Sebastien Demmel , Sebastien Glaser

Low-latency intelligent systems are required for autonomous driving on non-uniform terrain in open-pit mines and developing countries. This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles on unpaved roads and off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Nelson Alves Ferreira Neto

There is a growing academic interest as well as commercial exploitation of millimetre-wave scanning radar for autonomous vehicle localisation and scene understanding. Although several datasets to support this research area have been…

Detecting traversable pathways in unstructured outdoor environments remains a significant challenge for autonomous robots, especially in critical applications such as wide-area search and rescue, as well as incident management scenarios…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yixin Sun , Li Li , Wenke E , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Understanding road scenes for visual perception remains crucial for intelligent self-driving cars. In particular, it is desirable to detect unexpected small road hazards reliably in real-time, especially under varying adverse conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jongoh Jeong , Taek-Jin Song , Jong-Hwan Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

We present OffRoadTranSeg, the first end-to-end framework for semi-supervised segmentation in unstructured outdoor environment using transformers and automatic data selection for labelling. The offroad segmentation is a scene understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Anukriti Singh , Kartikeya Singh , P. B. Sujit

We propose a method for off-road drivable area extraction using 3D LiDAR data with the goal of autonomous driving application. A specific deep learning framework is designed to deal with the ambiguous area, which is one of the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Biao Gao , Anran Xu , Yancheng Pan , Xijun Zhao , Wen Yao , Huijing Zhao

Roadway free-flow speed captures the typical vehicle speed in low traffic conditions. Modeling free-flow speed is an important problem in transportation engineering with applications to a variety of design, operation, planning, and policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Armin Hadzic , Hunter Blanton , Weilian Song , Mei Chen , Scott Workman , Nathan Jacobs

Despite significant progress in optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision systems, robustly recognizing text and identifying people in images taken in unconstrained \emph{in-the-wild} environments remain an ongoing challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Jacob Tyo , Motolani Olarinre , Youngseog Chung , Zachary C. Lipton

Off-road image semantic segmentation is challenging due to the presence of uneven terrains, unstructured class boundaries, irregular features and strong textures. These aspects affect the perception of the vehicle from which the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Kartikeya Singh , Peng Jiang , Sujit P. B. , Srikanth Saripalli

Road-boundary detection is important for autonomous driving. It can be used to constrain autonomous vehicles running on road areas to ensure driving safety. Compared with online road-boundary detection using on-vehicle cameras/Lidars,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

Autonomous driving has achieved rapid development over the last few decades, including the machine perception as an important issue of it. Although object detection based on conventional cameras has achieved remarkable results in 2D/3D,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Rui Yang , Zhi Yan , Tao Yang , Yassine Ruichek

Accurate lane detection is essential for automated driving, enabling safe and reliable vehicle navigation across a variety of road scenarios. Numerous datasets have been introduced to support the development and evaluation of lane detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jörg Gamerdinger , Sven Teufel , Oliver Bringmann

Off-road environments remain significant challenges for autonomous ground vehicles, due to the lack of structured roads and the presence of complex obstacles, such as uneven terrain, vegetation, and occlusions. Traditional perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zitong Chen , Chao Sun , Shida Nie , Chen Min , Changjiu Ning , Haoyu Li , Bo Wang

While several datasets for autonomous navigation have become available in recent years, they tend to focus on structured driving environments. This usually corresponds to well-delineated infrastructure such as lanes, a small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Girish Varma , Anbumani Subramanian , Anoop Namboodiri , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Autonomous driving is a popular research area within the computer vision research community. Since autonomous vehicles are highly safety-critical, ensuring robustness is essential for real-world deployment. While several public multimodal…

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