Can self-driving cars see in snow? A simple test of detection robustness
Researchers made an easy way to check if car cameras still work when pictures get messy from rain, snow, fog or blur.
They built three test sets called Pascal-C, Coco-C and Cityscapes-C to mimic many kinds of bad images, and then they tried common vision systems.
The result: many models lose a lot of skill, sometimes dropping to about 30–60% of what they did on clean pictures, so detection can fail when conditions change.
But there is a hopeful trick — mixing in art-like, stylized training pictures while teaching the models makes them hold up much better against different damage.
That means object detection can become more reliable for real roads.
This work aims to give a simple yardstick so people can track progress towards safer cars, and the test data and tools are shared so others can try it too.
If you care about safe driving in bad weather, this shows why we need to train systems for the mess real life brings to camera views, especially for autonomous driving.
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Benchmarking Robustness in Object Detection: Autonomous Driving when Winter isComing
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