# D-YOLO a robust framework for object detection in adverse weather conditions

Source: [D-YOLO a robust framework for object detection in adverse weather conditions](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72911e209131cea57298>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-27T06:31:06.558Z

Authors: Zihan Chu

Published: 2024-03-14T09:57:15.000Z

## Abstract

Adverse weather conditions including haze, snow and rain lead to decline in image qualities, which often causes a decline in performance for deep-learning based detection networks. Most existing approaches attempts to rectify hazy images before performing object detection, which increases the complexity of the network and may result in the loss in latent information. To better integrate image restoration and object detection tasks, we designed a double-route network with an attention feature fusion module, taking both hazy and dehazed features into consideration. We also proposed a subnetwork to provide haze-free features to the detection network. Specifically, our D-YOLO improves the performance of the detection network by minimizing the distance between the clear feature extraction subnetwork and detection network. Experiments on RTTS and FoggyCityscapes datasets show that D-YOLO demonstrates better performance compared to the state-of-the-art methods. It is a robust detection framework for bridging the gap between low-level dehazing and high-level detection.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09233>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.09233.pdf>)
