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Map-Guided Curriculum Domain Adaptation and Uncertainty-Aware Evaluation for Semantic Nighttime Image Segmentation
We address the problem of semantic nighttime image segmentation and improve
the state-of-the-art, by adapting daytime models to nighttime without using
nighttime annotations. Moreover, we design a new evaluation framework to
address the substantial uncertainty of semantics in nighttime images. Our
central contributions are: 1) a curriculum framework to gradually adapt
semantic segmentation models from day to night through progressively darker
times of day, exploiting cross-time-of-day correspondences between daytime
images from a reference map and dark images to guide the label inference in the
dark domains; 2) a novel uncertainty-aware annotation and evaluation framework
and metric for semantic segmentation, including image regions beyond human
recognition capability in the evaluation in a principled fashion; 3) the Dark
Zurich dataset, comprising 2416 unlabeled nighttime and 2920 unlabeled twilight
images with correspondences to their daytime counterparts plus a set of 201
nighttime images with fine pixel-level annotations created with our protocol,
which serves as a first benchmark for our novel evaluation. Experiments show
that our map-guided curriculum adaptation significantly outperforms
state-of-the-art methods on nighttime sets both for standard metrics and our
uncertainty-aware metric. Furthermore, our uncertainty-aware evaluation reveals
that selective invalidation of predictions can improve results on data with
ambiguous content such as our benchmark and profit safety-oriented applications
involving invalid inputs.Comment: IEEE T-PAMI 202
End-to-end Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers
The autonomous driving community has witnessed a rapid growth in approaches
that embrace an end-to-end algorithm framework, utilizing raw sensor input to
generate vehicle motion plans, instead of concentrating on individual tasks
such as detection and motion prediction. End-to-end systems, in comparison to
modular pipelines, benefit from joint feature optimization for perception and
planning. This field has flourished due to the availability of large-scale
datasets, closed-loop evaluation, and the increasing need for autonomous
driving algorithms to perform effectively in challenging scenarios. In this
survey, we provide a comprehensive analysis of more than 250 papers, covering
the motivation, roadmap, methodology, challenges, and future trends in
end-to-end autonomous driving. We delve into several critical challenges,
including multi-modality, interpretability, causal confusion, robustness, and
world models, amongst others. Additionally, we discuss current advancements in
foundation models and visual pre-training, as well as how to incorporate these
techniques within the end-to-end driving framework. To facilitate future
research, we maintain an active repository that contains up-to-date links to
relevant literature and open-source projects at
https://github.com/OpenDriveLab/End-to-end-Autonomous-Driving
Assistance strategies for robotized laparoscopy
Robotizing laparoscopic surgery not only allows achieving better
accuracy to operate when a scale factor is applied between master and slave or thanks to the use of tools with 3 DoF, which cannot be used in conventional manual surgery, but also due to additional informatic support. Relying on computer assistance different strategies that facilitate the task of the surgeon can be incorporated, either in the form of autonomous navigation or cooperative guidance, providing sensory or visual feedback, or introducing certain limitations of movements. This paper describes different ways of assistance aimed at improving the work capacity of the surgeon and achieving more safety for the patient, and the results obtained with the prototype developed at UPC.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
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