The paper surveys one‑stage object detectors for autonomous driving, covering the evolution from early models like YOLOv1 and SSD to recent real‑time architectures such as YOLOv10 and anchor‑free detectors like FCOS and CenterNet. It compares these methods on design choices, feature‑fusion strategies, loss functions, deployment trade‑offs, and benchmark performance, while also summarizing datasets, evaluation metrics, open challenges, and future research directions. The survey emphasizes how one‑stage detectors balance speed, accuracy, efficiency, and robustness, noting the gap between benchmark results and dependable real‑world performance.
By Jonel Roman, Ryan Sirjue, Peter Nguyen, Daniel Krutky, Juan Jesus, Sudip Dhakal
The paper presents a traffic sign recognition system that extends YOLOv2 with a branched architecture and geometric feature integration. By adding intermediate prediction layers, the model can terminate inference early for easy cases, reducing computation time, while unsupervised Bayesian segmentation supplies geometric templates to improve classification of visually similar signs. Experiments on a combined GTSDB/GTSRB dataset show that the branched model achieves 0.680 mAP in 0.647 s, and adding geometric verification during inference raises mAP to 0.713.
By Arefeh Rezaei
arXiv:2608. 08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial attacks, including shadow perturbations, natural-light interference, and printed patches.
By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv:2608. 02092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep multimodal fusion for object detection has demonstrated good performance through mining modal characteristics.
By Guandi Wang, Ming Li, Yunsen Xing, Junle Liu
arXiv:2511. 12810v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size.
By Leena Alghamdi, Muhammad Usman, Hafeez Anwar, Abdul Bais, Saeed Anwar
The paper introduces an Attention-Driven Complementarity Resampling framework to enhance cross-modality object detection. It employs a shared channel spatial attention mechanism that exchanges semantic masks between modalities, encouraging the backbone to learn generalized features. Additionally, a learnable channel competition module samples and aggregates features channel‑wise, improving robustness and achieving competitive results on multiple datasets.
By Guandi Wang, Ming Li, Yunsen Xing, Junle Liu
arXiv:2608.06205v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multispectral object detection combines visible and thermal imagery to improve perception under challenging illumination and environmental conditio...
By Nima Hatami, Karim Faez, Saeed Sharifian, Hamidreza Amindavar
arXiv:2609.17134v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neuromorphic vision systems operate under strict constraints on bandwidth, memory, and energy, particularly at the edge, motivating early mechanisms fo...
By Luca Peres, Giulia D'Angelo, Chiara Bartolozzi, Oliver Rhodes
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.
By Meda Lazar, Sourab Sridhar, Shashwata Gupta, Alexandra Tripcea, Varun Ravi, Senthil Yogamani
MEVL-STP introduces a two‑stage pipeline for spotting arbitrarily shaped scene text. The detection stage fuses features from six frozen vision encoders via a hierarchical Feature Pyramid Network and a Progressive Scale Expansion network to produce precise polygon masks. The recognition stage then crops these masks and feeds them to a fine‑tuned Qwen3‑VL‑8B‑Instruct model, achieving state‑of‑the‑art detection and end‑to‑end performance on CTW1500, Total‑Text, and ICDAR 2015 without synthetic pretraining.
By Aman Anand, Partha Pratim Roy, Shivakumara Palaiahnakote
arXiv:2604. 17376v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In today's day and age, we face a challenge in detecting deepfake images because of the fast evolution of modern generative models and the poor generalization capability of existing methods.
By Kaliki V Srinanda, M Manvith Prabhu, Hemanth K Mogilipalem, Jayavarapu S Abhinai, Vaibhav Santhosh, Aryan Herur, Deepu Vijayasenan
arXiv:2609.14185v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based multi-view 3D object detection suffers from challenges of computational complexity, multi-scale feature extraction, and e...
By Jing Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Zibo Wang