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%).
By Sepideh Gohari, Goodarz Mehr, Azim Eskandarian
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...
The paper introduces ICM, an Intra-Class Mixing Consistency framework for unsupervised domain adaptation in semantic segmentation under adverse weather. ICM mixes regions within the same image and semantic class to maintain realistic layouts, contrasting prior methods that combine across images or domains. On the Cityscapes → ACDC benchmark, ICM achieves 75.7% mIoU, surpassing previous state‑of‑the‑art results by 1.9 percentage points.
By Boying Li, Chang Liu, Britta Ayano Wilde, Gy\"orgy Kov\'acs, Tosin Adewumi, Bj\"orn Backe, Hamam Mokayed
arXiv:2507. 19881v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated domain generalization has shown promising progress in image classification by enabling collaborative training across multiple clients without sharing raw data.
By Tao Lian, Jose L. G\'omez, Antonio M. L\'opez
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.
By Qiao Yan, Yihan Wang, Zhenghao Xing, Jiaqi Xu, Pheng-Ann Heng
arXiv:2610.00030v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Object detection models often experience performance degradation when deployed under distribution shifts, caused by for example changes in weather type...
By Elfi I. S. Hofmeijer, Ella P. Fokkinga, Friso G. Heslinga, Klamer Schutte, J\"orgen M. Karlholm
arXiv:2607. 01983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust 3D object detection under adverse weather remains a critical hurdle for autonomous driving.
By Shuyao Li, Chuanxing Geng, Heyang Sun, Qiang Zhou, Jingjing Gu
arXiv:2410. 21361v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Domain adaptation has been extensively investigated in computer vision but still requires access to target data at the training time, which might be difficult to obtain in real-world autonomous driving scenarios, especially under rare or adverse conditions.
By Mohammad Fahes, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick P\'erez, Raoul de Charette
arXiv:2610.01510v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Robust perception in intelligent vehicles demands 3D object detectors that remain dependable under domain shifts, such as changes in time of day, locat...
By Jolle Verhoog, Ali Burak \"Unal, Holger Caesar
arXiv:2605. 13258v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we present our winning solution for the 8th UG2+ Challenge (CVPR 2026) Track 1: Image Restoration under All-weather Conditions.
By Youwei Pan, Leilei Cao, Yingfang Zhu, Fengjie Zhu
The paper proposes a modular training pipeline for zero‑shot cross‑city object detection that combines a multi‑dataset pre‑training strategy with class‑agnostic objectness distillation and a domain‑resilient augmentation stream featuring a Grayworld transformation. Applied to the RF‑DETR detector, the approach reduces cross‑city distribution gaps while using only 16 GB GPU memory, achieving a 24.29‑point mAP improvement and 1st place on the AI City Challenge Track 6 leaderboard. The authors provide code and data at the referenced GitHub repository.
By Long Hoang Pham, Quoc Pham-Nam Ho, Huy-Hung Nguyen, Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran, Ngoc Doan-Minh Huynh, Cu Quoc Le, Hoang-Khang Nguyen, Hyung-Min Jeon, Chi Dai Tran, Son Hong Phan, Duong Khac Vu, Trinh Le Ba Khanh, Jae Wook Jeon
arXiv:2609.23541v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal 3D object detection is fundamental to robust perception in autonomous driving because it integrates complementary information from LiDAR and...
By Ziying Song, Lin Liu, Hongyu Pan, Shaoqing Xu, Lei Yang, Mingzhe Guo, Caiyan Jia