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Seeing Through Fog Without Seeing Fog: Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion in Unseen Adverse Weather

24 Feb 2019CVPR 2020 6arXiv:1902.08913archive 2025-07-28

Mario Bijelic, Tobias Gruber, Fahim Mannan, Florian Kraus, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer, Felix Heide

The fusion of multimodal sensor streams, such as camera, lidar, and radar measurements, plays a critical role in object detection for autonomous vehicles, which base their decision making on these inputs. While existing methods exploit redundant information in good environmental conditions, they fail in adverse weather where the sensory streams can be asymmetrically distorted. These rare "edge-case" scenarios are not represented in available datasets, and existing fusion architectures are not designed to handle them. To address this challenge we present a novel multimodal dataset acquired in over 10,000km of driving in northern Europe. Although this dataset is the first large multimodal dataset in adverse weather, with 100k labels for lidar, camera, radar, and gated NIR sensors, it does not facilitate training as extreme weather is rare. To this end, we present a deep fusion network for robust fusion without a large corpus of labeled training data covering all asymmetric distortions. Departing from proposal-level fusion, we propose a single-shot model that adaptively fuses features, driven by measurement entropy. We validate the proposed method, trained on clean data, on our extensive validation dataset. Code and data are available here https://github.com/princeton-computational-imaging/SeeingThroughFog.

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2D Object DetectionAutonomous VehiclesDecision MakingObject DetectionSensor Fusionobject-detection

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Clear WeatherDense FogHeavy SnowfallLight Snowfall

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
2D Object Detection Clear Weather Deep Entropy Fusion clear hard (AP) 79.46 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
2D Object Detection Dense Fog Deep Entropy Fusion dense fog hard (AP) 76.69 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
2D Object Detection Dense Fog Deep Entropy Fusion light fog hard (AP) 84.9 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
2D Object Detection Dense Fog Deep Entropy Fusion snow/rain hard (AP) 77.85 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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