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Autonomous vehicles rely on camera, LiDAR, and radar sensors to navigate the environment. Adverse weather conditions like snow, rain, and fog are known to be problematic for both camera and LiDAR-based perception systems. Currently, it is…

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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…

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The intricacy of rainy image contents often leads cutting-edge deraining models to image degradation including remnant rain, wrongly-removed details, and distorted appearance. Such degradation is further exacerbated when applying the models…

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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

Single image deraining (SID) in real scenarios attracts increasing attention in recent years. Due to the difficulty in obtaining real-world rainy/clean image pairs, previous real datasets suffer from low-resolution images, homogeneous rain…

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Accurate estimation of wheat spike volume is important for yield component analysis and stress resilience assessment, yet field-based measurement remains challenging. Active 3D sensing methods such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) or…

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Perception plays an important role in reliable decision-making for autonomous vehicles. Over the last ten years, huge advances have been made in the field of perception. However, perception in extreme weather conditions is still a difficult…

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The performance of state-of-the-art object detectors degrades significantly under adverse weather, causing a safety-critical domain shift problem for autonomous vehicles. Recent efforts address this problem by relying on synthetic data to…

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Reliable and weather-robust perception systems are essential for safe autonomous driving and typically employ multi-modal sensor configurations to achieve comprehensive environmental awareness. While recent automotive FMCW Radar-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Christof Leitgeb , Thomas Puchleitner , Max Peter Ronecker , Daniel Watzenig

For the single image rain removal (SIRR) task, the performance of deep learning (DL)-based methods is mainly affected by the designed deraining models and training datasets. Most of current state-of-the-art focus on constructing powerful…

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Depth estimation, essential for autonomous driving, seeks to interpret the 3D environment surrounding vehicles. The development of radar sensors, known for their cost-efficiency and robustness, has spurred interest in radar-camera…

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Provident vehicle detection has a lot of scope in the detection of vehicle during night time. The extraction of features other than the headlamps of vehicles allows us to detect oncoming vehicles before they appear directly on the camera.…

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Accurate 3D object detection is vital for automated driving. While lidar sensors are well suited for this task, they are expensive and have limitations in adverse weather conditions. 3+1D imaging radar sensors offer a cost-effective, robust…

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Climate models (CM) are used to evaluate the impact of climate change on the risk of floods and strong precipitation events. However, these numerical simulators have difficulties representing precipitation events accurately, mainly due to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Rilwan Adewoyin , Peter Dueben , Peter Watson , Yulan He , Ritabrata Dutta

Employing data augmentation methods to enhance perception performance in adverse weather has attracted considerable attention recently. Most of the LiDAR augmentation methods post-process the existing dataset by physics-based models or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Donglin Yang , Zhenfeng Liu , Wentao Jiang , Guohang Yan , Xing Gao , Botian Shi , Si Liu , Xinyu Cai

Recent diffusion models have exhibited great potential in generative modeling tasks. Part of their success can be attributed to the ability of training stable on huge sets of paired synthetic data. However, adapting these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yiyang Shen , Mingqiang Wei , Yongzhen Wang , Xueyang Fu , Jing Qin

Fusion of LiDAR and RGB data has the potential to enhance outdoor 3D object detection accuracy. To address real-world challenges in outdoor 3D object detection, fusion of LiDAR and RGB input has started gaining traction. However, effective…

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Autonomous driving has experienced remarkable progress, bolstered by innovations in computational hardware and sophisticated deep learning methodologies. The foundation of these advancements rests on the availability and quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Joshua Tokarsky , Ibrahim Abdulhafiz , Satya Ayyalasomayajula , Mostafa Mohsen , Navya G. Rao , Adam Forbes

3D point cloud segmentation faces practical challenges due to the computational complexity and deployment limitations of large-scale transformer-based models. To address this, we propose a novel Structure- and Relation-aware Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuqi Li , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, LiDAR-Camera (LC) fusion is the top-performing sensor configuration. Still, LiDAR is relatively high cost, which hinders adoption of this technology for consumer automobiles.…

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