arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 7

Mitigating Illumination-Induced Domain Shift in Night-Time Pedestrian Detection for Intelligent Vehicles using Annotation-Preserving Diffusion Augmentation

The paper introduces Contrastive‑SDXL, a day‑to‑night augmentation framework that uses SDXL‑Turbo and Low‑Rank Adaptation to generate realistic night‑time images for pedestrian detection. It employs a patch‑wise semantic contrastive loss guided by a pretrained DINOv2 encoder and an object consistency loss to preserve pedestrian and local semantic structure during translation, achieving a FID of 22.5. Detectors trained on these synthetic images show a 6‑7% reduction in miss rate compared to a daytime‑only baseline, approaching the performance of models trained on real night‑time data.

By Franky George, Muhammad Khalid, Adil Khan, Koorosh Aslansefat
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

TriDifNet: A Unified Three-Task Diffusion Network for End-to-End RGB-T Perception

TriDifNet is a diffusion-based network that jointly performs registration, fusion, and detection for misaligned RGB-T pedestrian perception. It includes three modules—RegDM for aligning infrared to visible images, FusDM for generating a detection-oriented fused representation, and DetDM for iterative bounding‑box denoising. The system uses closed‑loop optimization and a Nash‑MTL refinement to balance the three tasks, achieving state‑of‑the‑art detection metrics on the KAIST multispectral benchmark.

By Qianchao He, Jing Liu, Yunhao Li, Xiaoqing Tian
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Making the Discrete Continuous: Synthetic RAW Augmentations for Fine-Grained Evaluation of Person Detection Performance in Low Light

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...

By Valeria Pais, Malena Mendilaharzu, Daniele Faccio, Luis Oala, Christoph Clausen, Bruno Sanguinetti
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Rethinking Pre-Training and Augmentation for Zero-Shot Cross-City Object Detection

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