Applying Semantic Segmentation to Autonomous Cars in the Snowy Environment

This paper mainly focuses on environment perception in snowy situations which forms the backbone of the autonomous driving technology. For the purpose, semantic segmentation is employed to classify the objects while the vehicle is driven autonomously. We train the Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) on our own dataset and present the experimental results. Finally, the outcomes are analyzed to give a conclusion. It can be concluded that the database still needs to be optimized and a favorable algorithm should be proposed to get better results.

Zhaoyu Pan, Takanori Emaru, Ankit Ravankar, Yukinori Kobayashi · 2020