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Sensor fusion is a crucial augmentation technique for improving the accuracy and reliability of perception systems for automated vehicles under diverse driving conditions. However, adverse weather and low-light conditions remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Can Cui , Yunsheng Ma , Juanwu Lu , Ziran Wang

Deep neural networks designed for vision tasks are often prone to failure when they encounter environmental conditions not covered by the training data. Single-modal strategies are insufficient when the sensor fails to acquire information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Osama Mazhar , Robert Babuska , Jens Kober

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

Reliable 3D object detection is fundamental to autonomous driving, and multimodal fusion algorithms using cameras and LiDAR remain a persistent challenge. Cameras provide dense visual cues but ill posed depth; LiDAR provides a precise 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Venkatraman Narayanan , Bala Sai , Rahul Ahuja , Pratik Likhar , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving. As an emerging sensor, 4D imaging radar offers advantages as low cost, long-range detection, and accurate velocity measurement, making it highly suitable for object detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

In autonomous driving, LiDAR and radar are crucial for environmental perception. LiDAR offers precise 3D spatial sensing information but struggles in adverse weather like fog. Conversely, radar signals can penetrate rain or mist due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yanlong Yang , Jianan Liu , Tao Huang , Qing-Long Han , Gang Ma , Bing Zhu

Safety and reliability are crucial for the public acceptance of autonomous driving. To ensure accurate and reliable environmental perception, intelligent vehicles must exhibit accuracy and robustness in various environments. Millimeter-wave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

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

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable progress of 3D multi-modality object detection methods based on the Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perspective. However, most of them overlook the complementary interaction and guidance between LiDAR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Xiaotian Li , Baojie Fan , Jiandong Tian , Huijie Fan

Multimodal deep sensor fusion has the potential to enable autonomous vehicles to visually understand their surrounding environments in all weather conditions. However, existing deep sensor fusion methods usually employ convoluted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Sri Aditya Deevi , Connor Lee , Lu Gan , Sushruth Nagesh , Gaurav Pandey , Soon-Jo Chung

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

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Fusing LiDAR and camera information is essential for achieving accurate and reliable 3D object detection in autonomous driving systems. This is challenging due to the difficulty of combining multi-granularity geometric and semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Autonomous vehicles and mobile robotic systems are typically equipped with multiple sensors to provide redundancy. By integrating the observations from different sensors, these mobile agents are able to perceive the environment and estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Changhao Chen , Stefano Rosa , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bing Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Multi-modal fusion is a fundamental task for the perception of an autonomous driving system, which has recently intrigued many researchers. However, achieving a rather good performance is not an easy task due to the noisy raw data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Keli Huang , Botian Shi , Xiang Li , Xin Li , Siyuan Huang , Yikang Li

In recent years, multi-modal fusion has attracted a lot of research interest, both in academia, and in industry. Multimodal fusion entails the combination of information from a set of different types of sensors. Exploiting complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Siddharth Roheda , Hamid Krim , Benjamin S. Riggan

Robust 3D object detection in extreme weather and illumination conditions is a challenging task. While radars and thermal cameras are known for their resilience to these conditions, few studies have been conducted on radar-thermal fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Qiao Yan , Yihan Wang

Perception systems for autonomous driving have seen significant advancements in their performance over last few years. However, these systems struggle to show robustness in extreme weather conditions because sensors like lidars and cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kshitiz Bansal , Keshav Rungta , Dinesh Bharadia

Fusing the camera and LiDAR information has become a de-facto standard for 3D object detection tasks. Current methods rely on point clouds from the LiDAR sensor as queries to leverage the feature from the image space. However, people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Tingting Liang , Hongwei Xie , Kaicheng Yu , Zhongyu Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Tao Tang , Bing Wang , Zhi Tang

Despite the recent advances of deep neural networks, object detection for adverse weather remains challenging due to the poor perception of some sensors in adverse weather. Instead of relying on one single sensor, multimodal fusion has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Saket S. Chaturvedi , Lan Zhang , Xiaoyong Yuan