EdgeCaseDNet: An enhanced detection architecture for edge case perception in autonomous driving

Yin Lei, Chen Shan, Wancheng Ge, Alessio Plebe, Alessio Plebe, Alessio Plebe, Alessio Plebe · 2025

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Yin Lei, Chen Shan, and Wancheng Ge present a vision system tuned for rare, hard cases in self-driving in a 2025 paper. Normal test sets underplay fog, rain, snow, and night driving, where detection can fail badly. The team built both a new dataset of such edge cases and a model designed to handle them.

Their model extends a popular detector with four upgrades, covering feature extraction, multi-scale fusion, a leaner convolution block, and a better training loss. On their tests it beat the base model by wide margins on standard accuracy scores. Code is shared online. The work targets the long tail of road scenes where safety margins are thinnest.

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CREATORYin Lei, Chen Shan, Wancheng Ge, Alessio Plebe, Alessio Plebe, Alessio Plebe, Alessio Plebe
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE68 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12714283

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