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Reliable semantic segmentation of open environments is essential for intelligent systems, yet significant problems remain: 1) Existing RGB-T semantic segmentation models mainly rely on low-level visual features and lack high-level textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Meng Yu , Te Cui , Qitong Chu , Wenjie Song , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Real-time scene parsing is a fundamental feature for autonomous driving vehicles with multiple cameras. In this letter we demonstrate that sharing semantics between cameras with different perspectives and overlapped views can boost the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Zhenzhen Xiang , Anbo Bao , Jie Li , Jianbo Su

State-of-the-art multimodal semantic segmentation strategies combining LiDAR and color data are usually designed on top of asymmetric information-sharing schemes and assume that both modalities are always available. This strong assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Francesco Barbato , Elena Camuffo , Simone Milani , Pietro Zanuttigh

The RGB complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) sensor works within the visible light spectrum. Therefore it is very sensitive to environmental light conditions. On the contrary, a long-wave infrared (LWIR) sensor operating in 8-14…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mohsen Vadidar , Ali Kariminezhad , Christian Mayr , Laurent Kloeker , Lutz Eckstein

RGB-thermal semantic segmentation is one potential solution to achieve reliable semantic scene understanding in adverse weather and lighting conditions. However, the previous studies mostly focus on designing a multi-modal fusion module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ukcheol Shin , Kyunghyun Lee , In So Kweon , Jean Oh

This paper presents an investigation into the estimation of optical and scene flow using RGBD information in scenarios where the RGB modality is affected by noise or captured in dark environments. Existing methods typically rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Youjie Zhou , Guofeng Mei , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Yi Wan

Scene understanding based on image segmentation is a crucial component of autonomous vehicles. Pixel-wise semantic segmentation of RGB images can be advanced by exploiting complementary features from the supplementary modality (X-modality).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jiaming Zhang , Huayao Liu , Kailun Yang , Xinxin Hu , Ruiping Liu , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Infrared and visible image fusion plays a vital role in the field of computer vision. Previous approaches make efforts to design various fusion rules in the loss functions. However, these experimental designed fusion rules make the methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yuhui Wu , Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Semantic segmentation relying solely on RGB data often struggles in challenging conditions such as low illumination and obscured views, limiting its reliability in critical applications like autonomous driving. To address this, integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ce Zhang , Zifu Wan , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

Realistic and controllable traffic simulation is a core capability that is necessary to accelerate autonomous vehicle (AV) development. However, current approaches for controlling learning-based traffic models require significant domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ziyuan Zhong , Davis Rempe , Yuxiao Chen , Boris Ivanovic , Yulong Cao , Danfei Xu , Marco Pavone , Baishakhi Ray

Semantic segmentation plays an important role in widespread applications such as autonomous driving and robotic sensing. Traditional methods mostly use RGB images which are heavily affected by lighting conditions, \eg, darkness. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ping Li , Junjie Chen , Binbin Lin , Xianghua Xu

Semantic segmentation algorithms that can robustly segment objects across multiple camera viewpoints are crucial for assuring navigation and safety in emerging applications such as autonomous driving. Existing algorithms treat each image in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Brigit Schroeder , Hanlin Tang , Alexandre Alahi

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

With the emergence of transformer-based architectures and large language models (LLMs), the accuracy of road scene perception has substantially advanced. Nonetheless, current road scene segmentation approaches are predominantly trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mi Zheng , Guanglei Yang , Zitong Huang , Zhenhua Guo , Kevin Han , Wangmeng Zuo

RGB-T road scene semantic segmentation enhances visual scene understanding in complex environments characterized by inadequate illumination or occlusion by fusing information from RGB and thermal images. Nevertheless, existing RGB-T…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hanshuo Qiu , Jie Jiang , Ruoli Yang , Lixin Zhan , Jizhao Liu

In real-world environments, outdoor imaging systems are often affected by disturbances such as rain degradation. Especially, in nighttime driving scenes, insufficient and uneven lighting shrouds the scenes in darkness, resulting degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Cidan Shi , Lihuang Fang , Han Wu , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

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

Robust semantic perception for autonomous vehicles relies on effectively combining multiple sensors with complementary strengths and weaknesses. State-of-the-art sensor fusion approaches to semantic perception often treat sensor data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tim Broedermannn , Christos Sakaridis , Luigi Piccinelli , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

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

Automated driving technology has gained a lot of momentum in the last few years. For the exploration field, navigation is the important key for autonomous operation. In difficult scenarios such as snowy environment, the road is covered with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sirawich Vachmanus , Takanori Emaru , Ankit A. Ravankar , Yukinori Kobayashi