arXiv Computer Vision By Ali Abedi, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Ning Zhang, Shiqi Tian

FogTTA: Online Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Transformer-based Object Detection in Foggy Weather

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FogTTA is an online test-time adaptation framework that enhances Transformer-based object detectors, specifically RF-DETR, for foggy weather conditions. It operates without source data or retraining by using a teacher-student architecture: the deployed model generates pseudo labels from weakly augmented inputs, which are refined and used to train a student model on strongly augmented samples with Varifocal loss. The teacher model is updated via exponential moving averaging, enabling real-time, stable adaptation and improved detection accuracy in foggy environments.

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Real-World Perception for Autonomous Driving in Adverse Weather: Enhancing Standard Detectors via Foundation-Guided Auto-Annotation

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%).

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