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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%).
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:2602. 07343v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust semantic segmentation of road scenes under adverse illumination, lighting, and shadow conditions remain a core challenge for autonomous driving applications.
arXiv:2605.22455v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of AI vision models is both fueled and limited by the data available for training and testing. Real datasets are sparse...
ShadowCast is a novel on-the-fly, context-aware shadow augmentation method for remote sensing image segmentation. It synthesizes shadows by extracting masks of elevated objects from segmentation labels and projecting synthetic shadows along an inferred cast-shadow direction, without requiring additional networks or metadata. Experiments on Vaihingen, Potsdam, and LoveDA demonstrate consistent performance gains across various state-of-the-art segmentation architectures and when combined with standard augmentation and regularization techniques.
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.