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Main Authors: Wang, Rui, Yang, Shichun, Chen, Yuyi, Li, Zhuoyang, Tong, Zexiang, Xu, Jianyi, Lu, Jiayi, Feng, Xinjie, Cao, Yaoguang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11066
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author Wang, Rui
Yang, Shichun
Chen, Yuyi
Li, Zhuoyang
Tong, Zexiang
Xu, Jianyi
Lu, Jiayi
Feng, Xinjie
Cao, Yaoguang
author_facet Wang, Rui
Yang, Shichun
Chen, Yuyi
Li, Zhuoyang
Tong, Zexiang
Xu, Jianyi
Lu, Jiayi
Feng, Xinjie
Cao, Yaoguang
contents Road terrains play a crucial role in ensuring the driving safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, existing sensors of AVs, including cameras and Lidars, are susceptible to variations in lighting and weather conditions, making it challenging to achieve real-time perception of road conditions. In this paper, we propose an illumination-aware multi-modal fusion network (IMF), which leverages both exteroceptive and proprioceptive perception and optimizes the fusion process based on illumination features. We introduce an illumination-perception sub-network to accurately estimate illumination features. Moreover, we design a multi-modal fusion network which is able to dynamically adjust weights of different modalities according to illumination features. We enhance the optimization process by pre-training of the illumination-perception sub-network and incorporating illumination loss as one of the training constraints. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the IMF shows a superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. The comparison results with single modality perception methods highlight the comprehensive advantages of multi-modal fusion in accurately perceiving road terrains under varying lighting conditions. Our dataset is available at: https://github.com/lindawang2016/IMF.
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spellingShingle A Multi-modal Fusion Network for Terrain Perception Based on Illumination Aware
Wang, Rui
Yang, Shichun
Chen, Yuyi
Li, Zhuoyang
Tong, Zexiang
Xu, Jianyi
Lu, Jiayi
Feng, Xinjie
Cao, Yaoguang
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
Road terrains play a crucial role in ensuring the driving safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, existing sensors of AVs, including cameras and Lidars, are susceptible to variations in lighting and weather conditions, making it challenging to achieve real-time perception of road conditions. In this paper, we propose an illumination-aware multi-modal fusion network (IMF), which leverages both exteroceptive and proprioceptive perception and optimizes the fusion process based on illumination features. We introduce an illumination-perception sub-network to accurately estimate illumination features. Moreover, we design a multi-modal fusion network which is able to dynamically adjust weights of different modalities according to illumination features. We enhance the optimization process by pre-training of the illumination-perception sub-network and incorporating illumination loss as one of the training constraints. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the IMF shows a superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. The comparison results with single modality perception methods highlight the comprehensive advantages of multi-modal fusion in accurately perceiving road terrains under varying lighting conditions. Our dataset is available at: https://github.com/lindawang2016/IMF.
title A Multi-modal Fusion Network for Terrain Perception Based on Illumination Aware
topic Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11066