Weather-Aware Object Detection Transformer for Domain Adaptation

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Autori principali: Gharatappeh, Soheil, Sekeh, Salimeh, Dhiman, Vikas
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author Gharatappeh, Soheil
Sekeh, Salimeh
Dhiman, Vikas
author_facet Gharatappeh, Soheil
Sekeh, Salimeh
Dhiman, Vikas
contents RT-DETRs have shown strong performance across various computer vision tasks but are known to degrade under challenging weather conditions such as fog. In this work, we investigate three novel approaches to enhance RT-DETR robustness in foggy environments: (1) Domain Adaptation via Perceptual Loss, which distills domain-invariant features from a teacher network to a student using perceptual supervision; (2) Weather Adaptive Attention, which augments the attention mechanism with fog-sensitive scaling by introducing an auxiliary foggy image stream; and (3) Weather Fusion Encoder, which integrates a dual-stream encoder architecture that fuses clear and foggy image features via multi-head self and cross-attention. Despite the architectural innovations, none of the proposed methods consistently outperform the baseline RT-DETR. We analyze the limitations and potential causes, offering insights for future research in weather-aware object detection.
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spellingShingle Weather-Aware Object Detection Transformer for Domain Adaptation
Gharatappeh, Soheil
Sekeh, Salimeh
Dhiman, Vikas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
RT-DETRs have shown strong performance across various computer vision tasks but are known to degrade under challenging weather conditions such as fog. In this work, we investigate three novel approaches to enhance RT-DETR robustness in foggy environments: (1) Domain Adaptation via Perceptual Loss, which distills domain-invariant features from a teacher network to a student using perceptual supervision; (2) Weather Adaptive Attention, which augments the attention mechanism with fog-sensitive scaling by introducing an auxiliary foggy image stream; and (3) Weather Fusion Encoder, which integrates a dual-stream encoder architecture that fuses clear and foggy image features via multi-head self and cross-attention. Despite the architectural innovations, none of the proposed methods consistently outperform the baseline RT-DETR. We analyze the limitations and potential causes, offering insights for future research in weather-aware object detection.
title Weather-Aware Object Detection Transformer for Domain Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10877