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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Kaige Wang , Long Chen , TIanming Wang , Qixiang Meng , Huatao Jiang , Lin Chang

The increasing demand for autonomous machines in construction environments necessitates the development of robust object detection algorithms that can perform effectively across various weather and environmental conditions. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Maghsood Salimi , Mohammad Loni , Sara Afshar , Antonio Cicchetti , Marjan Sirjani

Reliable road segmentation in all weather conditions is critical for intelligent transportation applications, autonomous vehicles and advanced driver's assistance systems. For robust performance, all weather conditions should be included in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Henrik Toikka , Eerik Alamikkotervo , Risto Ojala

Semantic segmentation tasks based on weakly supervised condition have been put forward to achieve a lightweight labeling process. For simple images that only include a few categories, researches based on image-level annotations have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Sheng Yi , Yanxian Chen

Robust visual recognition under adverse weather conditions is of great importance in real-world applications. In this context, we propose a new method for learning semantic segmentation models robust against fog. Its key idea is to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sohyun Lee , Taeyoung Son , Suha Kwak

Joint scene understanding and segmentation for automotive applications is a challenging problem in two key aspects:- (1) classifying every pixel in the entire scene and (2) performing this task under unstable weather and illumination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Naif Alshammari , Samet Akçay , Toby P. Breckon

Existing deep learning-based object detection models perform well under daytime conditions but face significant challenges at night, primarily because they are predominantly trained on daytime images. Additionally, training with nighttime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yunxiang Yang , Hao Zhen , Yongcan Huang , Jidong J. Yang

Semantic segmentation using deep neural networks has been widely explored to generate high-level contextual information for autonomous vehicles. To acquire a complete $180^\circ$ semantic understanding of the forward surroundings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Wei Zhou , Alex Zyner , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hamed Khatounabadi , Xiaohu Lu , Hayder Radha

Automotive scene understanding under adverse weather conditions raises a realistic and challenging problem attributable to poor outdoor scene visibility (e.g. foggy weather). However, because most contemporary scene understanding approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Naif Alshammari , Samet Akcay , Toby P. Breckon

Semantic segmentation's performance is often compromised when applied to unlabeled adverse weather conditions. Unsupervised domain adaptation is a potential approach to enhancing the model's adaptability and robustness to adverse weather.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xin Yang , Wending Yan , Yuan Yuan , Michael Bi Mi , Robby T. Tan

High-autonomy vehicle functions rely on machine learning (ML) algorithms to understand the environment. Despite displaying remarkable performance in fair weather scenarios, perception algorithms are heavily affected by adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Felix Assion , Florens Gressner , Nitin Augustine , Jona Klemenc , Ahmed Hammam , Alexandre Krattinger , Holger Trittenbach , Anja Philippsen , Sascha Riemer

Autonomous driving relies on a huge volume of real-world data to be labeled to high precision. Alternative solutions seek to exploit driving simulators that can generate large amounts of labeled data with a plethora of content variations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 David Acuna , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler

A self-driving car must be able to reliably handle adverse weather conditions (e.g., snowy) to operate safely. In this paper, we investigate the idea of turning sensor inputs (i.e., images) captured in an adverse condition into a benign one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Youya Xia , Josephine Monica , Wei-Lun Chao , Bharath Hariharan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Mark Campbell

Road scene understanding tasks have recently become crucial for self-driving vehicles. In particular, real-time semantic segmentation is indispensable for intelligent self-driving agents to recognize roadside objects in the driving area. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jongoh Jeong , Jong-Hwan Kim

In autonomous driving scenarios, current object detection models show strong performance when tested in clear weather. However, their performance deteriorates significantly when tested in degrading weather conditions. In addition, even when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Stefan Leitner , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Wei Lin , Jakub Micorek , Marc Masana , Mateusz Kozinski , Horst Possegger , Horst Bischof

Although deep neural networks enable impressive visual perception performance for autonomous driving, their robustness to varying weather conditions still requires attention. When adapting these models for changed environments, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Marc Masana , Horst Possegger , Horst Bischof

Computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation perform very well in good weather conditions, but if the weather turns bad, they have problems to achieve this performance in these conditions. One possibility to obtain more robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Andreas Pfeuffer , Klaus Dietmayer

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…

Camera localization is a fundamental and crucial problem for many robotic applications. In recent years, using deep-learning for camera-based localization has become a popular research direction. However, they lack robustness to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jialu Wang , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigon , Andrew Markham