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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

In the realm of deploying Machine Learning-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ML-ADAS) into real-world scenarios, adverse weather conditions pose a significant challenge. Conventional ML models trained on clear weather data falter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Muhammad Zaeem Shahzad , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation for object detection addresses the adaption of detectors trained in a source domain to work accurately in an unseen target domain. Recently, methods approaching the alignment of the intermediate features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Vinicius F. Arruda , Rodrigo F. Berriel , Thiago M. Paixão , Claudine Badue , Alberto F. De Souza , Nicu Sebe , Thiago Oliveira-Santos

Event-based cameras provide accurate and high temporal resolution measurements for performing computer vision tasks in challenging scenarios, such as high-dynamic range environments and fast-motion maneuvers. Despite their advantages,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mohammad Rostami , Dayuan Jian , Ruitong Sun

Adverse weather conditions cause diverse and complex degradation patterns, driving the development of All-in-One (AiO) models. However, recent AiO solutions still struggle to capture diverse degradations, since global filtering methods like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yuhwan Jeong , Yunseo Yang , Youngho Yoon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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

Semantic segmentation has achieved significant advances in recent years. While deep neural networks perform semantic segmentation well, their success rely on pixel level supervision which is expensive and time-consuming. Further, training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ying Chen , Xu Ouyang , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

This paper describes our approach for the 8th UG2+ Workshop (CVPR 2026) Track~2, which targets semantic segmentation of outdoor scenes degraded by five weather conditions: blur, darkness, snow, haze, and glare. A central challenge we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Cong Xu , Pu Luo , Yumei Li , Boyou Xue

The rapid development of 3D object detection systems for self-driving cars has significantly improved accuracy. However, these systems struggle to generalize across diverse driving environments, which can lead to safety-critical failures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Travis Zhang , Katie Luo , Cheng Perng Phoo , Yurong You , Wei-Lun Chao , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

We present a novel system, AdVENTR for autonomous robot navigation in unstructured outdoor environments that consist of uneven and vegetated terrains. Our approach is general and can enable both wheeled and legged robots to handle outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Kasun Weerakoon , Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy , Mohamed Elnoor , Dinesh Manocha

Autonomous vehicles face significant challenges in navigating adverse weather, particularly rain, due to the visual impairment of camera-based systems. In this study, we leveraged contemporary deep learning techniques to mitigate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mark A. Seferian , Jidong J. Yang

WeatherSeg, an advanced semi-supervised segmentation framework, addresses autonomous driving's environmental perception challenges in adverse weather while reducing annotation costs. This framework integrates a Dual Teacher-Student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zhang Zhang , Yifeng Zeng , Houshi Jiang , Yinghui Pan

Semantic segmentation is key in autonomous driving. Using deep visual learning architectures is not trivial in this context, because of the challenges in creating suitable large scale annotated datasets. This issue has been traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Emanuele Alberti , Antonio Tavera , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Off-road autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are being developed for military and commercial use to deliver crucial supplies in remote locations, help with mapping and surveillance, and to assist war-fighters in contested…

This paper addresses the limitations of adverse weather image restoration approaches trained on synthetic data when applied to real-world scenarios. We formulate a semi-supervised learning framework employing vision-language models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jiaqi Xu , Mengyang Wu , Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Camera anomalies like rain or dust can severelydegrade image quality and its related tasks, such as localizationand segmentation. In this work we address this importantissue by implementing a pre-processing step that can effectivelymitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Gianmario Fumagalli , Yannick Huber , Marcin Dymczyk , Roland Siegwart , Renaud Dubé

In this paper, we present the submission to the 5th Annual Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences Data Challenge, Challenge 3. This is the solution for semantic segmentation problem in both real-world and synthetic images from a vehicle s…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tuan T. Nguyen , Phan Le , Yasir Hassan , Mina Sartipi

For autonomous driving, traversability analysis is one of the most basic and essential tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR-based terrain modeling approach, which could output stable, complete and accurate terrain models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hanzhang Xue , Hao Fu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Fan , Dawei Zhao , Bin Dai

Simulation-based design, optimization, and validation of autonomous vehicles have proven to be crucial for their improvement over the years. Nevertheless, the ultimate measure of effectiveness is their successful transition from simulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chinmay Vilas Samak , Tanmay Vilas Samak , Bing Li , Venkat Krovi