arXiv:2608. 09202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous vehicles are equipped with multiple sensors, such as cameras, LiDAR, and radar, for comprehensive environmental perception.
By Junyao Wang, Yulin Xu, Yu Li, Pramod Khargonekar, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
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
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
arXiv:2606. 01277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current end-to-end autonomous driving systems predominantly rely on frame-based sensors, which suffer from inherent perception latency and motion blur during highly dynamic encounters, specifically sudden pedestrian crossings.
By Oskar Natan, Andi Dharmawan, Aufaclav Zatu Kusuma Frisky, Jazi Eko Istiyanto, Jun Miura
FastBEVFusion is a lightweight fusion system for real‑time 3D object detection that combines LiDAR and camera data without depth estimation. It projects modality‑specific features into semi‑aligned BEV spaces and fuses them with a dynamic cross‑attention module, achieving over 50 FPS on the nuScenes dataset. The method also demonstrates strong robustness to calibration errors.
By Tom Sanitz, Emre G\"ulsoylu, Simone Frintrop, Christian Wilms
The paper introduces a Motion Dynamics Kalman Filter (MD‑KF) for 3D multi‑object tracking that adapts to motion variation while keeping a single‑model structure. It improves state estimation by scaling motion components to reduce drift, especially for distant or occluded objects. Experiments on KITTI, Waymo Open Dataset, and real vehicle tests show MD‑KF matches multimodel KF performance with a 1.72× speedup.
By Mohamed Nagy, Naoufel Werghi, Bilal Hassan, Jorge Dias, Majid Khonji