arXiv Computer Vision By Yiming Yang, Jeremy P. Bos

Tracking the Invisible: Self-Supervised Wheel Track Detection with Thermal-RGB Fusion

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The paper presents a low‑cost, self‑supervised method for detecting wheel tracks on snow‑covered roads using synchronized RGB and long‑wave infrared (RGB‑I) imagery. Training labels are automatically generated by projecting future wheel trajectories from GNSS data, and a neural network is trained to identify wheel tracks on featureless, white‑out road surfaces. Experimental results show the approach is effective in visually monotonous adverse environments, providing a robust alternative for winter autonomy. The ThermalTrack dataset is released for further research.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

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%).

By Sepideh Gohari, Goodarz Mehr, Azim Eskandarian