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most citedTLD-READY: Traffic Light Detection -- Relevance Estimation and Deployment Analysis

7 citations · 17 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.HC2026

User Experience in Human-Machine Interaction: Insights from Field Studies in Autonomous Mobility

Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, J. Marius Zöllner

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise safer, cleaner, and more inclusive mobility, yet large-scale adoption is hindered by user acceptance rather than by technical challenges. Prior st…

cs.CV2026

Real-World On-Vehicle Evaluation of Embedding-Based Anomaly Detection

Albert Schotschneider, Daniel Bogdoll, Svetlana Pavlitska +2

Detecting anomalies in traffic scenes is crucial for ensuring safety in autonomous driving, yet collecting representative anomalous data remains challenging. Existing anomaly detec…

cs.CR2026

Towards a Systematic Risk Assessment of Deep Neural Network Limitations in Autonomous Driving Perception

Svetlana Pavlitska, Christopher Gerking, J. Marius Zöllner

Safety and security are essential for the admission and acceptance of automated and autonomous vehicles. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used for perception and further comp…

cs.CV2026

Domain-Specialized Object Detection via Model-Level Mixtures of Experts

Svetlana Pavlitska, Malte Stüven, Beyza Keskin +1

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models provide a structured approach to combining specialized neural networks and offer greater interpretability than conventional ensembles. While MoEs ha…

cs.CV2026

Design and Behavior of Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Layers in CNN-based Semantic Segmentation

Svetlana Pavlitska, Haixi Fan, Konstantin Ditschuneit +1

Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers have been shown to substantially increase model capacity without a proportional increase in computational cost and are widely used in transfo…

cs.CV2025

Runtime Safety Monitoring of Deep Neural Networks for Perception: A Survey

Albert Schotschneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, J. Marius Zöllner

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in perception systems for safety-critical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, DNNs remain vulnerable to vari…

cs.HC2025

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey

Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, Helen Gremmelmaier +1

Understanding human affect can be used in robotics, marketing, education, human-computer interaction, healthcare, entertainment, autonomous driving, and psychology to enhance decis…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

DEAP DIVE: Dataset Investigation with Vision transformers for EEG evaluation

Annemarie Hoffsommer, Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska +1

Accurately predicting emotions from brain signals has the potential to achieve goals such as improving mental health, human-computer interaction, and affective computing. Emotion p…

cs.CV2025

Robust Experts: the Effect of Adversarial Training on CNNs with Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Layers

Svetlana Pavlitska, Haixi Fan, Konstantin Ditschuneit +1

Robustifying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) against adversarial attacks remains challenging and often requires resource-intensive countermeasures. We explore the use of spars…

cs.CV2025

Extracting Uncertainty Estimates from Mixtures of Experts for Semantic Segmentation

Svetlana Pavlitska, Beyza Keskin, Alwin Faßbender +2

Estimating accurate and well-calibrated predictive uncertainty is important for enhancing the reliability of computer vision models, especially in safety-critical applications like…

cs.CV2025

Fool the Stoplight: Realistic Adversarial Patch Attacks on Traffic Light Detectors

Svetlana Pavlitska, Jamie Robb, Nikolai Polley +2

Realistic adversarial attacks on various camera-based perception tasks of autonomous vehicles have been successfully demonstrated so far. However, only a few works considered attac…

cs.CV2024

Towards Adversarial Robustness of Model-Level Mixture-of-Experts Architectures for Semantic Segmentation

Svetlana Pavlitska, Enrico Eisen, J. Marius Zöllner

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known deficiency of deep neural networks. Larger networks are generally more robust, and ensembling is one method to increase adversa…

cs.CV2024

Evaluating Adversarial Attacks on Traffic Sign Classifiers beyond Standard Baselines

Svetlana Pavlitska, Leopold Müller, J. Marius Zöllner

Adversarial attacks on traffic sign classification models were among the first successfully tried in the real world. Since then, the research in this area has been mainly restricte…

cs.CV2024★ 7 cited

TLD-READY: Traffic Light Detection -- Relevance Estimation and Deployment Analysis

Nikolai Polley, Svetlana Pavlitska, Yacin Boualili +4

Effective traffic light detection is a critical component of the perception stack in autonomous vehicles. This work introduces a novel deep-learning detection system while addressi…

cs.AR2024

Efficient Edge AI: Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA with the Gemmini Accelerator

Federico Nicolas Peccia, Svetlana Pavlitska, Tobias Fleck +1

The growing concerns regarding energy consumption and privacy have prompted the development of AI solutions deployable on the edge, circumventing the substantial CO2 emissions asso…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Label-Free Model Failure Detection for Lidar-based Point Cloud Segmentation

Daniel Bogdoll, Finn Sartoris, Vincent Geppert +2

Autonomous vehicles drive millions of miles on the road each year. Under such circumstances, deployed machine learning models are prone to failure both in seemingly normal situatio…

cs.CV2024

Hybrid Video Anomaly Detection for Anomalous Scenarios in Autonomous Driving

Daniel Bogdoll, Jan Imhof, Tim Joseph +2

In autonomous driving, the most challenging scenarios can only be detected within their temporal context. Most video anomaly detection approaches focus either on surveillance or tr…

cs.CV2024

Iterative Filter Pruning for Concatenation-based CNN Architectures

Svetlana Pavlitska, Oliver Bagge, Federico Peccia +2

Model compression and hardware acceleration are essential for the resource-efficient deployment of deep neural networks. Modern object detectors have highly interconnected convolut…

cs.CV2024

CAGE: Circumplex Affect Guided Expression Inference

Niklas Wagner, Felix Mätzler, Samed R. Vossberg +3

Understanding emotions and expressions is a task of interest across multiple disciplines, especially for improving user experiences. Contrary to the common perception, it has been…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

One Stack to Rule them All: To Drive Automated Vehicles, and Reach for the 4th level

Sven Ochs, Jens Doll, Daniel Grimm +15

Most automated driving functions are designed for a specific task or vehicle. Most often, the underlying architecture is fixed to specific algorithms to increase performance. There…

cs.LG2023

Relationship between Model Compression and Adversarial Robustness: A Review of Current Evidence

Svetlana Pavlitska, Hannes Grolig, J. Marius Zöllner

Increasing the model capacity is a known approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of deep learning networks. On the other hand, various model compression techniques, includin…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Conditioning Latent-Space Clusters for Real-World Anomaly Classification

Daniel Bogdoll, Svetlana Pavlitska, Simon Klaus +1

Anomalies in the domain of autonomous driving are a major hindrance to the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we focus on high-resolution camera data from…

cs.CV2023

Traffic Light Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks: A Survey

Svetlana Pavlitska, Nico Lambing, Ashok Kumar Bangaru +1

Real-time traffic light recognition is essential for autonomous driving. Yet, a cohesive overview of the underlying model architectures for this task is currently missing. In this…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Adversarial Attacks on Traffic Sign Recognition: A Survey

Svetlana Pavlitska, Nico Lambing, J. Marius Zöllner

Traffic sign recognition is an essential component of perception in autonomous vehicles, which is currently performed almost exclusively with deep neural networks (DNNs). However,…