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New FogDrive dataset enhances autonomous driving perception under varied fog conditions

Researchers have introduced FogDrive, a new synthetic dataset designed to improve autonomous driving perception systems under various fog conditions. The dataset, built using the CARLA simulator, features synchronized multi-modal sensor data including RGB, depth, semantic segmentation, LiDAR, and radar. FogDrive systematically models fog at three calibrated densities using physical principles, providing matched clean and foggy variants for each scene to benchmark defogging and detection pipelines. Initial experiments with state-of-the-art architectures show that training with mixed fog densities enhances 3D bounding box accuracy without increasing data costs, while traditional image quality metrics are poor predictors of downstream detection performance. AI

IMPACT This dataset aims to improve the robustness of autonomous driving systems by providing a standardized way to test perception under various fog conditions.

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New FogDrive dataset enhances autonomous driving perception under varied fog conditions

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Vansh Panwar ·

    FogDrive: A Multi-Modal Synthetic Driving Dataset for Perception under Graded Fog

    arXiv:2607.22698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perception under adverse weather remains a critical bottleneck for reliable autonomous driving, yet existing benchmarks lack the systematic multi-modal alignments needed to evaluate robust sensor fusion. Real-world weather datasets …