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Urban-oriented autonomous vehicles require a reliable perception technology to tackle the high amount of uncertainties. The recently introduced compact 3D LIDAR sensor offers a surround spatial information that can be exploited to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Achim Kampker , Mohsen Sefati , Arya Abdul Rachman , Kai Kreisköther , Pascual Campoy

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on environment perception and behavior prediction to reason about agents in their surroundings. These perception systems must be robust to adverse weather such as rain, fog, and snow. However, validation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Harrison Delecki , Masha Itkina , Bernard Lange , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Typically, object detection methods for autonomous driving that rely on supervised learning make the assumption of a consistent feature distribution between the training and testing data, this such assumption may fail in different weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jinlong Li , Runsheng Xu , Xinyu Liu , Jin Ma , Baolu Li , Qin Zou , Jiaqi Ma , Hongkai Yu

In recent years, LiDAR-camera fusion models have markedly advanced 3D object detection tasks in autonomous driving. However, their robustness against common weather corruption such as fog, rain, snow, and sunlight in the intricate physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yihao Huang , Kaiyuan Yu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Xiaojun Jia , Tianlin Li , Geguang Pu , Yang Liu

This work aims to address the challenges in autonomous driving by focusing on the 3D perception of the environment using roadside LiDARs. We design a 3D object detection model that can detect traffic participants in roadside LiDARs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Walter Zimmer , Jialong Wu , Xingcheng Zhou , Alois C. Knoll

Estimating and understanding the surroundings of the vehicle precisely forms the basic and crucial step for the autonomous vehicle. The perception system plays a significant role in providing an accurate interpretation of a vehicle's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sreenivasa Hikkal Venugopala

Pedestrians are among the most endangered traffic participants in road traffic. While pedestrian detection in nominal conditions is well established, the sensor and, therefore, the pedestrian detection performance degrades under adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-23 Daniel Weihmayr , Fatih Sezgin , Leon Tolksdorf , Christian Birkner , Reza N. Jazar

Current LiDAR-based Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) multi-agent perception systems have shown the significant success on 3D object detection. While these models perform well in the trained clean weather, they struggle in unseen adverse weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Baolu Li , Jinlong Li , Xinyu Liu , Runsheng Xu , Zhengzhong Tu , Jiacheng Guo , Xiaopeng Li , Hongkai Yu

This paper aims to introduce a method for simulating with a real time performance the automotive LIDAR disturbance by dust clouds caused by natural phenomena, mechanical or man-made processes like a traveling vehicle. In this study, we are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mokrane Hadj-Bachir , P de Souza , P Nordqvist , N Roy

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

Autonomous driving at level five does not only means self-driving in the sunshine. Adverse weather is especially critical because fog, rain, and snow degrade the perception of the environment. In this work, current state of the art light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mario Bijelic , Tobias Gruber , Werner Ritter

There are two critical sensors for 3D perception in autonomous driving, the camera and the LiDAR. The camera provides rich semantic information such as color, texture, and the LiDAR reflects the 3D shape and locations of surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kaicheng Yu , Tang Tao , Hongwei Xie , Zhiwei Lin , Zhongwei Wu , Zhongyu Xia , Tingting Liang , Haiyang Sun , Jiong Deng , Dayang Hao , Yongtao Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Bing Wang

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 traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Felix Nobis , Ehsan Shafiei , Phillip Karle , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Most object detection methods for autonomous driving usually assume a consistent feature distribution between training and testing data, which is not always the case when weathers differ significantly. The object detection model trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jinlong Li , Runsheng Xu , Jin Ma , Qin Zou , Jiaqi Ma , Hongkai Yu

Lidar has become an essential sensor for autonomous driving as it provides reliable depth estimation. Lidar is also the primary sensor used in building 3D maps which can be used even in the case of low-cost systems which do not use Lidar.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 B Ravi Kiran , Luis Roldão , Benat Irastorza , Renzo Verastegui , Sebastian Suss , Senthil Yogamani , Victor Talpaert , Alexandre Lepoutre , Guillaume Trehard

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

LiDAR-based 3D object detection models have traditionally struggled under rainy conditions due to the degraded and noisy scanning signals. Previous research has attempted to address this by simulating the noise from rain to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xun Huang , Hai Wu , Xin Li , Xiaoliang Fan , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Intelligent transportation systems require accurate and reliable sensing. However, adverse environments, such as rain, snow, and fog, can significantly degrade the performance of LiDAR and cameras. In contrast, 4D mmWave radar not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiangyuan Peng , Miao Tang , Huawei Sun , Kay Bierzynski , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Object detection is a core component of perception systems, providing the ego vehicle with information about its surroundings to ensure safe route planning. While cameras and Lidar have significantly advanced perception systems, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Farzeen Munir , Shoaib Azam , Tomasz Kucner , Ville Kyrki , Moongu Jeon