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Adding Thermal Awareness to Visual Systems in Real-Time via Distilled Diffusion Models
May 7, 2026Yuchen Guo, Junli Gong, Wenjun Dong +2Multi-Source Image Fusion Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
Northwestern University · Northeastern University · Hong Kong Baptist University +1
Safety-Critical Camera Reliability Monitoring for ADAS via Degradation-Aware Uncertainty Pattern Analysis
May 6, 2026Shiva AherUncertainty Quantification Autonomous Driving Perception
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Information Coordination as a Bridge: A Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Reliable Autonomous Driving Scene Understanding
May 6, 2026Shuo Liu, Lei Shi, Haowen Liu +3Object Hallucination in VLMs Autonomous Driving Perception
School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, 450001, Zhengzhou, China · School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 450001, Zhengzhou, China · Songshan Laboratory, 450003, Zhengzhou, China
Beyond Fixed Thresholds and Domain-Specific Benchmarks for Explainable Multi-Task Classification in Autonomous Vehicles
May 5, 2026Maryam Sadat Hosseini Azad, Shahriar Baradaran ShokouhiAutonomous Driving Autonomous Driving Perception
Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Synergistic Simplex: Cooperative Runtime Assurance for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
May 5, 2026Ayoosh Bansal, Mikael Yeghiazaryan, Artyom Khachatryan +4Safety-Critical Control Autonomous Driving
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL, USA · Center for Scientific Innovation and Education (CSIE), Yerevan, Armenia · California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA +1
Beyond Known Objects: A Novel Framework for Open-Set Object Detection using Negative-Aware Norm
May 4, 2026Yuchen Zhang, Yao Lu, Johannes BetzAutonomous Driving Perception Open-Set Recognition
TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)
SimPB++: Simultaneously Detecting 2D and 3D Objects from Multiple Cameras
May 3, 2026Yingqi Tang, Zhaotie Meng, Erkang Cheng +1Autonomous Driving Perception Multi-View 3D Object Detection
Nullmax · Westlake University
WILD SAM: A Simulated-and-Real Data Augmentation for Autonomous Driving Perception under Challenging Weather
May 1, 2026Hamed Khatounabadi, Xiaohu Lu, Hayder RadhaSynthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, USA
Connected Dependability Cage: Run-Time Function and Anomaly Monitoring for the Development and Operation of Safe Automated Vehicles
Apr 30, 2026Iqra Aslam, Nour Habib, Abhishek Buragohain +4Autonomous Driving Perception Runtime Verification
Institute for Software and System Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Towards All-Day Perception for Off-Road Driving: A Large-Scale Multispectral Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark
Apr 30, 2026Shuo Wang, Jilin Mei, Wenfei Guan +4Autonomous Driving Autonomous Driving Perception
Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. · Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Beijing, 100194, China.
Edge AI for Automotive Vulnerable Road User Safety: Deployable Detection via Knowledge Distillation
Apr 29, 2026Akshay Karjol, Darrin M. HannaEdge Inference Autonomous Driving Perception
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309 USA
FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning
Apr 28, 2026Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno CornelisFlow Matching Trajectory Generation
Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium · IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Control Your Queries: Heterogeneous Query Interaction for Camera-Radar Fusion
Apr 28, 2026Jialong Wu, Yihan Wang, Matthias RottmannCamera-Radar Fusion Autonomous Driving Perception
1Osnabrück University · 3Aptiv Services Deutschland GmbH · University of Wuppertal
Leveraging Previous-Traversal Point Cloud Map Priors for Camera-Based 3D Object Detection and Tracking
Apr 28, 2026Markus Käppeler, Özgün Çiçek, Yakov Miron +1Autonomous Driving Perception 3D Object Detection
Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Bosch Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany. · University of Haifa, Israel
Infrastructure-Guided Connectivity-Enhanced Road Crack Detection and Estimation
Apr 27, 2026Haosong Xiao, Yamini Ramesh, Rishabh Shukla +2Autonomous Driving Perception
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, USA · School of Engineering and Applied Science
TopoHR: Hierarchical Centerline Representation for Cyclic Topology Reasoning in Driving Scenes with Point-to-Instance Relations
Apr 27, 2026Yifeng Bai, Zhirong Chen, Bo Song +2Hierarchical Representation Learning Autonomous Driving Perception
Institute of Intelligent Machines, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology of China · NullMax +1
Learning to Identify Out-of-Distribution Objects for 3D LiDAR Anomaly Segmentation
Apr 26, 2026Simone Mosco, Daniel Fusaro, Alberto PrettoPoint Cloud Anomaly Detection 3D Point Cloud Segmentation
University of Padova, Italy
Transferable Physical-World Adversarial Patches Against Object Detection in Autonomous Driving
Apr 25, 2026Zihui Zhu, Ziqi Zhou, Yichen Wang +3Adversarial Patch Attacks Autonomous Driving Perception
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Towards Safe Mobility: A Unified Transportation Foundation Model enabled by Open-Ended Vision-Language Dataset
Apr 24, 2026Wenhui Huang, Songyan Zhang, Collister Chua +4Visual Question Answering Intelligent Transportation Systems
Nanyang Technological University. · Harvard University.
Vision-Based Lane Following and Traffic Sign Recognition for Resource-Constrained Autonomous Vehicles
Apr 23, 2026Md Tanjemul Islam, Md Rafiul KabirVisual Navigation Autonomous Driving Perception
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
EgoDyn-Bench: Evaluating Ego-Motion Understanding in Vision-Centric Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving
Apr 22, 2026Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Yuan Gao, Dingrui Wang +5VLM Evaluation Autonomous Driving Benchmarks
Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Munich, Germany · Data Analytics and Machine Learning Group, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
From Scene to Object: Text-Guided Dual-Gaze Prediction
Apr 22, 2026Zehong Ke, Yanbo Jiang, Jinhao Li +5Gaze Estimation Autonomous Driving Perception
School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
GOLD-BEV: GrOund and aeriaL Data for Dense Semantic BEV Mapping of Dynamic Scenes
Apr 21, 2026Joshua Niemeijer, Alaa Eddine Ben Zekri, Reza Bahmanyar +3Autonomous Driving Perception Bird's-Eye-View Representation
German Aerospace Center (DLR) · Digital Research Center of Sfax
Towards a Systematic Risk Assessment of Deep Neural Network Limitations in Autonomous Driving Perception
Apr 21, 2026Svetlana Pavlitska, Christopher Gerking, J. Marius ZöllnerAI Risk Management Autonomous Driving Safety Evaluation
FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Localization-Guided Foreground Augmentation in Autonomous Driving
Apr 21, 2026Jiawei Yong, Deyuan Qu, Qi Chen +2Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Autonomous Driving Perception
Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan · Toyota Motor North America, USA
SemLT3D: Semantic-Guided Expert Distillation for Camera-only Long-Tailed 3D Object Detection
Apr 20, 2026Hao Vo, Khoa Vo, Thinh Phan +5Autonomous Driving Perception 3D Object Detection
AICV Lab, University of Arkansas, USA · University of Utah, USA · University of Houston, USA +1
Infrastructure-Centric World Models: Bridging Temporal Depth and Spatial Breadth for Roadside Perception
Apr 19, 2026Siyuan Meng, Chengbo AiWorld Model Learning World Models
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
WeatherSeg: Weather-Robust Image Segmentation using Teacher-Student Dual Learning and Classifier-Updating Attention
Apr 19, 2026Zhang Zhang, Yifeng Zeng, Houshi Jiang +1Autonomous Driving Perception Semi-Supervised Learning
School of Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China · Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom · Beijing Quinovare Medical Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China +1
Physics-Grounded Monocular Vehicle Distance Estimation Using Standardized License Plate Typography
Apr 14, 2026Manognya Lokesh Reddy, Zheng LiuCollision Avoidance Metric Depth Estimation
Department of Computer and Information Science University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, Michigan, USA · Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, Michigan, USA
On Learning Spatial Structure from Pre-Beamforming Per-Antenna Range-Doppler Radar Measurements
Apr 2, 2026George Sebastian, Philipp Berthold, Bianca Forkel +2Representation Learning Millimeter-Wave Radar
Institute for Autonomous Driving, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany

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Adding Thermal Awareness to Visual Systems in Real-Time via Distilled Diffusion Models

Yuchen Guo, Junli Gong, Wenjun Dong, Yiuming Cheung+1

Northwestern University · Northeastern University · Hong Kong Baptist University+1

Multi-Source Image Fusion Infrared-Visible Image Fusion Edge Inference Autonomous Driving Perception Multimodal Sensor Fusion

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Purely RGB-based vision models often fail to provide reliable cues in challenging scenarios such as nighttime and fog, leading to degraded performance and safety risks. Infrared imaging captures heat-emitting sources and provides critical complementary information, but existing high-fidelity fusion methods suffer from prohibitive latency, rendering them impractical for real-time edge deployment. To address this, we propose FusionProxy, a real-time image fusion module designed as a fully independent, plug-and-play component with diffusion level quality. FusionProxy exploits two complementary statistics of a teacher sample ensemble: per-pixel variance in raw image space, used to weight pixel-level supervision, and per-pixel variance inside frozen foundation backbones, used to route feature-level alignment spatially. Once trained, FusionProxy can be directly integrated into any visual perception system without joint optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance on static recognition tasks and significantly enhances robustness in dynamic tasks, including closed-loop autonomous driving. Crucially, FusionProxy achieves real-time inference speeds on diverse platforms, from high-end GPUs to commodity hardware, providing a flexible and generalizable solution for all-day perception.

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