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Autonomous driving is rapidly advancing, and Level 2 functions are becoming a standard feature. One of the foremost outstanding hurdles is to obtain robust visual perception in harsh weather and low light conditions where accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Mahesh M Dhananjaya , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

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

Because 3D structure of a roadway environment can be characterized directly by a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors, they can be used to obtain exceptional situational awareness for assitive and autonomous driving systems. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ghazal Farhani , Taufiq Rahman , Syed Mostaquim Ali , Andrew Liu , Mohamed Zaki , Dominique Charlebois , Benoit Anctil

To navigate through urban roads, an automated vehicle must be able to perceive and recognize objects in a three-dimensional environment. A high-level contextual understanding of the surroundings is necessary to plan and execute accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall , James Ward , Eduardo Nebot

Robust perception in automated driving requires reliable performance under adverse conditions, where sensors may be affected by partial failures or environmental occlusions. Although existing autonomous driving datasets inherently contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Sanjay Kumar , Tim Brophy , Reenu Mohandas , Eoin Martino Grua , Ganesh Sistu , Valentina Donzella , Ciaran Eising

Robust road segmentation in all road conditions is required for safe autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Supervised deep learning methods provide accurate road segmentation in the domain of their training data but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Eerik Alamikkotervo , Henrik Toikka , Kari Tammi , Risto Ojala

Understanding the scene around the ego-vehicle is key to assisted and autonomous driving. Nowadays, this is mostly conducted using cameras and laser scanners, despite their reduced performances in adverse weather conditions. Automotive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Arthur Ouaknine , Alasdair Newson , Patrick Pérez , Florence Tupin , Julien Rebut

Robust perception is critical for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather and lighting conditions that commonly occur in real-world environments. In this paper, we introduce the Stereo Image Dataset (SID), a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zaid A. El-Shair , Abdalmalek Abu-raddaha , Aaron Cofield , Hisham Alawneh , Mohamed Aladem , Yazan Hamzeh , Samir A. Rawashdeh

Automated Driving Systems (ADS) open up a new domain for the automotive industry and offer new possibilities for future transportation with higher efficiency and comfortable experiences. However, autonomous driving under adverse weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuxiao Zhang , Alexander Carballo , Hanting Yang , Kazuya Takeda

Curbs are one of the essential elements of urban and highway traffic environments. Robust curb detection provides road structure information for motion planning in an autonomous driving system. Commonly, video cameras and 3D LiDARs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Dongfeng Bai , Tongtong Cao , Jingming Guo , Bingbing Liu

One of the fundamental challenges in the design of perception systems for autonomous vehicles is validating the performance of each algorithm under a comprehensive variety of operating conditions. In the case of vision-based semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Wei Zhou , Julie Stephany Berrio , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

We present a novel dataset covering seasonal and challenging perceptual conditions for autonomous driving. Among others, it enables research on visual odometry, global place recognition, and map-based re-localization tracking. The data was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Patrick Wenzel , Rui Wang , Nan Yang , Qing Cheng , Qadeer Khan , Lukas von Stumberg , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers

Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving, incorporating multiple sensors and corresponding computer vision algorithms. 3D LiDAR sensors are widely used to capture sparse point clouds of the vehicle's surroundings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

Adverse conditions like snow, rain, nighttime, and fog, pose challenges for autonomous driving perception systems. Existing methods have limited effectiveness in improving essential computer vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chenghao Qian , Mahdi Rezaei , Saeed Anwar , Wenjing Li , Tanveer Hussain , Mohsen Azarmi , Wei Wang

An automated vehicle operating in an urban environment must be able to perceive and recognise object/obstacles in a three-dimensional world while navigating in a constantly changing environment. In order to plan and execute accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

Automatic underground parking has attracted considerable attention as the scope of autonomous driving expands. The auto-vehicle is supposed to obtain the environmental information, track its location, and build a reliable map of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jiawei Hou , Qi Chen , Yurong Cheng , Guang Chen , Xiangyang Xue , Taiping Zeng , Jian Pu

In this paper, we present a dataset capturing diverse visual data formats that target varying luminance conditions. While RGB cameras provide nourishing and intuitive information, changes in lighting conditions potentially result in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Alex Junho Lee , Younggun Cho , Young-sik Shin , Ayoung Kim , Hyun Myung

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

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Scene flow allows autonomous vehicles to reason about the arbitrary motion of multiple independent objects which is the key to long-term mobile autonomy. While estimating the scene flow from LiDAR has progressed recently, it remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fangqiang Ding , Zhijun Pan , Yimin Deng , Jianning Deng , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu