Autonomous Driving Perception

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Autonomous driving perception turns sensor data into estimates of what is around a vehicle, where things are, and how they are moving, supporting safe navigation and interaction. Common tasks include 2D and 3D object detection, lane and road segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, and 3D occupancy; approaches use cameras, LiDAR, radar, event sensors, or sensor fusion, often with bird’s-eye-view representations and temporal models. Methods are commonly evaluated on datasets such as nuScenes, Waymo, KITTI, Cityscapes, and OpenLane, with increasing attention to night, adverse weather, long range, occlusion, and sensor failure. A central challenge is improving real-world reliability and safety without excessive compute: learned fusion and vision-language models can add context, but must be grounded in accurate geometry and tested beyond clean, familiar benchmark conditions.

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  1. Agent-Wise Test-Time Normalization for Camera-Based Cooperative Perception with Corrupted Collaborators

    Oct 29, 2026Yu Wang, Shaohua Wang, Yicheng Li +1Cooperative PerceptionAutonomous Driving Perception

    Institute of Automotive Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

  2. C-DFF: Concept-Level Diagnostics for Mechanism Parity in Simulation-Based Validation of Autonomous Driving Perception

    Oct 24, 2026Danial Safaei, Siddartha Khastgir, Matthew Higgins +4Autonomous Driving SimulationAutonomous Driving Perception

    WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. · 2getthere, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands +1

  3. Road Infrastructure Perception for Autonomous Driving: Taxonomy, Representations, Tasks, and Challenges

    Oct 24, 2026Guoyang Zhao, Weiqing Qi, Kai Zhang +5Autonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China. · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China. · the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K.

  4. Towards Effective and Transferable Physical Camouflage against Multi-View BEV-based 3D Perception in Autonomous Driving

    Oct 23, 2026Linye Lyu, Jiawei Zhou, Daojing He +1Adversarial AttacksPhysical Adversarial Attacks

  5. Foundation4D: Towards a unified perception and reconstruction model for autonomous vehicles

    Oct 21, 2026NVIDIA, :, Sérgio Agostinho +25Autonomous Driving Perception4D Scene Understanding

    NVIDIA

  6. Provisioning Robust and Efficient LiDAR Perception for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 20, 2026Tingxu Han, Zijie Shen, An Guo +4Lidar-Based 3D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China. · Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China +1

  7. Real-Time Radar Semantic and Panoptic Scene Understanding

    Oct 19, 2026Santosh Parit, Julia Hindel, Rohit Mohan +4Autonomous Driving PerceptionPanoptic Segmentation

    University of Freiburg · University of Oxford

  8. UBD-Bench: Benchmarking and Analyzing Unimodal Branch Degradation in Multimodal Perception for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 18, 2026Ang Liu, Xiang Gu, Ruikai Li +10Autonomous Driving PerceptionMultimodal Model Evaluation

    Beihang University · Xiaomi EV · University of Macau

  9. PolarVis: A Dataset and Diffusion Framework for RGB-to-Polarization Perception in Adverse Driving Scenes

    Oct 18, 2026Ruilin Huang, Jue Wang, Zhen Tian +2Polarimetric ImagingImage-to-Image Translation

    School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen 518107, China · Department of Electrical Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada

  10. Edge Deployable Lightweight Framework for Real-Time Driver Safety System with Integrated Lane Departure and Traffic Sign Recognition

    Oct 18, 2026Hassaan Ali Qureshi, Danish Hussain, Ali Hassan +5Traffic Sign DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

    Department of Mechatronics Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan · Department of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan · Department of Computer and Software Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan +2

  11. Stereo LWIR-RGB Automatic Labeling for Low-Light Camera-Based VRU Detection

    Oct 16, 2026Dimitrios Bouzoulas, Pyry Jäppinen, Pejman Habibiroudkenar +2Autonomous Driving PerceptionObject Detection

    Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  12. FutureLift: Lifting Trajectory Proposals into Bidirectional Future Graphs for Motion Forecasting

    Oct 15, 2026Daniel Grimm, J. Marius ZöllnerMultimodal Trajectory PredictionMulti-Agent Trajectory Prediction

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology

  13. FALCON: FPGA-Accelerated Latency-Certifiable Occupancy Networks for Camera-Based Autonomous Driving

    Oct 15, 2026Haohua Que, Mingkai Liu, Handong YaoAutonomous Driving PerceptionFPGA-Based Neural Network Acceleration

    College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

  14. DriveWorld3D Evidence Constrained 3D World Modeling and Generative Simulation for Real-World Autonomous Driving

    Oct 15, 2026Wei Wang, Yiru Veronika Wang, Yihan Wang +2World Models for Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Simulation

    Robostreet research team Cambridge, MA, USA

  15. RadarGSOcc: Doppler-Aware 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction Using 4D Radar Tensor with Geometric-Semantic Feature Extraction

    Oct 13, 2026Christofel Rio Goenawan, Dong-Hee Paek, Seung-Hyun Kong3D Occupancy PredictionAutonomous Driving Perception

    Robotics Program, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea · CCS Graduate School of Mobility, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea · Department of Future Mobility, Korea University, Sejong, Korea

  16. Adversarial Robustness of Camera-Radar Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 12, 2026Ce Zhou, Yubo Wu, Khang Nguyen +3Camera-Radar FusionAdversarial Robustness

    Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA · Virginia Tech, USA · Michigan State University, USA

  17. RIECNN: Real-Time Image Enhanced CNN for Traffic Sign Recognition

    Oct 10, 2026Reem Abdel-Salam, Rana Mostafa, Ahmed H. Abdel-GawadConvolutional Neural NetworksAutonomous Driving Perception

    Computer Engineering Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

  18. Mapping Tire-Road Friction Coefficients Along Driven Trajectories

    Oct 9, 2026Risto OjalaAutonomous Driving Perception

    Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  19. Beyond the Snowflakes: Disentangling Weather Effects from Confounding Meta-Factors in LiDAR Object Detection

    Oct 9, 2026Yiming Yang, Jeremy P. BosLidar-Based 3D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

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

    Oct 9, 2026Yiming Yang, Jeremy P. BosAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

  21. Towards Safer Cities: A Design Process for Perception Datasets in Urban Driving Scenarios

    Oct 9, 2026Alexander Kroth, Cristian Martinez, Steven PetersAutonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Perception

    Institute of Automotive Engineering Darmstadt (FZD), TU Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 2, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

  22. CoCam4D: Geometry-Aware Cooperative 4D Perception for Camera-Only Autonomous Driving

    Oct 8, 2026Soham Pahari, Sudip Das, Arindam Das +1Autonomous Driving PerceptionCooperative Perception

    University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun · Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata · anSWer India, Valeo Brain

  23. The Operator Mismatch Problem: Deploying BEV Perception with Portable GPU Compute

    Oct 8, 2026Rohit Verma, Anand V BodasAutonomous Driving PerceptionGPU Acceleration

    Intel

  24. GroundSight at GroundLM 2026 Shared Tasks: GoldenViewVQA

    Oct 8, 2026Kun Wang, Yupeng Hu, Ruping Cao +4Self-Correction in VLMsVisual Question Answering

    School of Software, Shandong University, Jinan, China · School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China

  25. Temporal Residual Bottleneck for Robust Asynchronous Collaborative Perception

    Oct 7, 2026Melih Yazgan, Ahmed Abouelazm, J. Marius ZöllnerCooperative PerceptionAutonomous Driving Perception

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  26. TopoCurve: Geometry-Aware Topology Reasoning via Bézier Curves in Autonomous Driving

    Oct 6, 2026Mihai Bogdan Deaconu, Laura DioşanAutonomous Driving Perception

    Bosch Engineering Center Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Romania · Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Babes,-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  27. Sparse2comm: Towards Robust Cooperative 3D Object Detection

    Oct 6, 2026Lei Yang, Boqi Li, Chunmian Lin +6Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionAutonomous Driving Perception

    University of Hong Kong, China

  28. Analysis of SWIR Imaging Detection Performance Under Adverse Environmental Conditions for Autonomous Driving Systems

    Oct 5, 2026Rohan Mehra, Alexandre Riffard, Yannis Loumouamou +1Multispectral Object DetectionInfrared Object Detection

    Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut Pascal, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

  29. AUTOPILOT An Advanced Perception, Localization and Path Planning Techniques for Autonomous Vehicles Using YOLOv7 and MiDaS

    Oct 5, 2026Harshkumar Devmurari, Gautham Kuckian, Prajjwal VishwakarmaAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving Planning

    Dept. of CSE(DS) Vidyavardhini’s College of Engineering and Technology Mumbai, India

  30. Difference Feature Map Distillation: Transferring Inter-Sample Relational Knowledge Towards Efficient Transformer-Based Tracking

    Oct 5, 2026Zhicheng Ding, Xinyu Chu, Qing TianVisual Object TrackingAutonomous Driving Perception

    Department of Computer Science, Bowling Green State University, OH 43402, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294, USA