The paper investigates how snow affects LiDAR-based object detection, finding that detection accuracy actually improves with higher snow intensity. This counter‑intuitive result is explained by an increase in object point count due to snow accumulation, which outweighs the noise introduced by falling snow. The authors argue that broad weather severity bins can mislead robustness assessments unless atmospheric noise and surface accumulation effects are disentangled.
arXiv:2607. 23537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving under adverse weather remains a critical challenge, yet existing vision-language benchmarks mainly evaluate under standard conditions, synthetic corruptions, or single modality.
3D object detection is the backbone of perception for automated vehicles (AV) and broader intelligent transportation systems applications. Long-range detection is challenging because sensing evidence is sparse; yet this ``long-range'' scenario is routine in traffic.
arXiv:2606. 09634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D object detection is the backbone of perception for automated vehicles (AV) and broader intelligent transportation systems applications.
The paper presents a foundation-guided auto‑annotation pipeline that improves standard autonomous driving object detectors in adverse weather. By benchmarking YOLOv8, Co‑DETR, and SAM3 on a custom dataset of 25 operational scenarios, the authors find SAM3 to be the most robust and use it offline to generate pseudo‑labels. Fine‑tuning YOLOv8 on these labels boosts overall mAP by 16.04% and yields significant gains in specific conditions such as Residential Direct Sunlight (32.73%) and Highway Fog (28.65%).
DXPR is a depth‑based cross‑modal place recognition framework that matches monocular camera queries to a LiDAR map using a single vision foundation model backbone. By converting both modalities into a unified depth image representation, DXPR learns modality‑invariant global descriptors without modality‑specific encoders. A geometry‑aware overlap miner refines pairwise metric learning by computing pixel‑level overlap scores, and extensive tests on KITTI and Boreas show strong performance across seasons, weather, and day/night conditions, outperforming prior CMPR baselines.
arXiv:2610.02000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adverse conditions such as rain, snow, fog, and dust remain challenging for camera-based perception in autonomous driving. We study multi-class weather...
Standard deployment-ready object detectors for autonomous vehicles degrade in adverse weather and lighting conditions without being trained on extensive domain-specific data. While large-scale vision...
arXiv:2606. 24096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust perception underpins autonomous driving, and most recent progress comes from scaling the model-larger backbones, foundation models, and cooperative multi-agent fusion.
arXiv:2508.13977v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Depth estimation is a fundamental component of spatial perception for autonomous driving and other unmanned systems operating in open urban environ...
arXiv:2510. 21112v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-definition 3D city maps enable city planning and change detection, which is essential for municipal compliance, map maintenance, and asset monitoring, including both built structures and urban greenery.
arXiv:2609.14619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR--4-D radar fusion combines accurate spatial geometry with motion and reflectivity cues from radar, offering a promising solution for 3-D object d...
The paper introduces a multi‑modal traffic sign detection framework that fuses camera and LiDAR data using an Intensity‑Aware Deformable Fusion module to align retro‑reflective LiDAR cues with visual features. It also presents a dual motion‑model tracker to handle non‑linear perspective changes and a semantic attribute classification pipeline that estimates occlusion, readability, sign embeddedness, and road relevance. Evaluated on a dataset covering more than 60 countries and 2,500 hours of driving, the system achieves an Object Miss Ratio of 0.49% across 221,068 sequences, indicating strong global generalization for autonomous driving.