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most citedVision Language Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey and Outlook

17 citations · 30 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

Multimodal Fusion of RGB and Complementary Modalities for Semantic Segmentation

Hu Cao, Yifeng Cheng, Mu He +3

Multi-modal semantic segmentation adds an auxiliary sensing stream to RGB images (RGB-X), such as thermal, LiDAR, depth, event, polarization, or light field. This can improve robus…

cs.CV2026

Uncertainty-Guided Adverse Weather Restoration via Gated Transformer Network

Zheke Jin, Yuning Cui, Tianle Jin +2

Restoring images degraded by adverse weather remains challenging due to spatially heterogeneous degradations. Many existing weather-specific restoration models rely on weather-agno…

cs.CV2026

Efficient and Robust Absolute Pose Estimation via Gravity-Prior-Driven Transformation Decoupling and Pose Refinement

Hu Cao, Qianyi Yang, Xinyi Li +3

Estimation of the absolute pose of an object is an essential task for various robotic applications. Recently, incorporating gravity direction as prior information has emerged as a…

cs.CV2026

SegRGB-X: General RGB-X Semantic Segmentation Model

Jiong Liu, Yingjie Xu, Xingcheng Zhou +4

Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result…

cs.CV2026

Energy-Aware Imitation Learning for Steering Prediction Using Events and Frames

Hu Cao, Jiong Liu, Xingzhuo Yan +5

In autonomous driving, relying solely on frame-based cameras can lead to inaccuracies caused by factors like long exposure times, high-speed motion, and challenging lighting condit…

cs.RO2026

AffordanceGrasp-R1:Leveraging Reasoning-Based Affordance Segmentation with Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Grasping

Dingyi Zhou, Mu He, Zhuowei Fang +4

We introduce AffordanceGrasp-R1, a reasoning-driven affordance segmentation framework for robotic grasping that combines a chain-of-thought (CoT) cold-start strategy with reinforce…

cs.RO2025

Language-Guided Grasp Detection with Coarse-to-Fine Learning for Robotic Manipulation

Zebin Jiang, Tianle Jin, Xiangtong Yao +2

Grasping is one of the most fundamental challenging capabilities in robotic manipulation, especially in unstructured, cluttered, and semantically diverse environments. Recent resea…

cs.CV2025

TUMTraf EMOT: Event-Based Multi-Object Tracking Dataset and Baseline for Traffic Scenarios

Mengyu Li, Xingcheng Zhou, Guang Chen +2

In Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), multi-object tracking is primarily based on frame-based cameras. However, these cameras tend to perform poorly under dim lighting and h…

cs.CV2025

URNet: Uncertainty-aware Refinement Network for Event-based Stereo Depth Estimation

Yifeng Cheng, Alois Knoll, Hu Cao

Event cameras provide high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low latency, offering significant advantages over conventional frame-based cameras. In this work, we introdu…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

BiSeg-SAM: Weakly-Supervised Post-Processing Framework for Boosting Binary Segmentation in Segment Anything Models

Encheng Su, Hu Cao, Alois Knoll

Accurate segmentation of polyps and skin lesions is essential for diagnosing colorectal and skin cancers. While various segmentation methods for polyps and skin lesions using fully…

cs.CV2025

CoDa-4DGS: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting with Context and Deformation Awareness for Autonomous Driving

Rui Song, Chenwei Liang, Yan Xia +5

Dynamic scene rendering opens new avenues in autonomous driving by enabling closed-loop simulations with photorealistic data, which is crucial for validating end-to-end algorithms.…

cs.CV2025

TUMTraffic-VideoQA: A Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes

Xingcheng Zhou, Konstantinos Larintzakis, Hao Guo +7

We present TUMTraffic-VideoQA, a novel dataset and benchmark designed for spatio-temporal video understanding in complex roadside traffic scenarios. The dataset comprises 1,000 vid…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Embracing Events and Frames with Hierarchical Feature Refinement Network for Object Detection

Hu Cao, Zehua Zhang, Yan Xia +4

In frame-based vision, object detection faces substantial performance degradation under challenging conditions due to the limited sensing capability of conventional cameras. Event…

cs.CV2024

Collaborative Semantic Occupancy Prediction with Hybrid Feature Fusion in Connected Automated Vehicles

Rui Song, Chenwei Liang, Hu Cao +5

Collaborative perception in automated vehicles leverages the exchange of information between agents, aiming to elevate perception results. Previous camera-based collaborative 3D pe…

cs.CV2023★ 8 cited

Strong but simple: A Baseline for Domain Generalized Dense Perception by CLIP-based Transfer Learning

Christoph Hümmer, Manuel Schwonberg, Liangwei Zhou +3

Domain generalization (DG) remains a significant challenge for perception based on deep neural networks (DNNs), where domain shifts occur due to synthetic data, lighting, weather,…

cs.CV2023

Transformation Decoupling Strategy based on Screw Theory for Deterministic Point Cloud Registration with Gravity Prior

Xinyi Li, Zijian Ma, Yinlong Liu +4

Point cloud registration is challenging in the presence of heavy outlier correspondences. This paper focuses on addressing the robust correspondence-based registration problem with…

cs.CV2023★ 17 cited

Vision Language Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey and Outlook

Xingcheng Zhou, Mingyu Liu, Ekim Yurtsever +4

The applications of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in the field of Autonomous Driving (AD) have attracted widespread attention due to their outstanding performance and the ability t…