Exploring thermal images for object detection in underexposure regions for autonomous driving

Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Muhammad Aasim Rafique, Ahmad Muqeem Sheri, Moongu Jeon, Witold Pedrycz

Abstract: Highlights•Fusion of thermal and RGB domain at data level for object detection.•Cross-domain model transfer approach acts as a pseudo-labeler for unlabeled dataset.•Source’s low-level features transfer to target domain using GAN.•Proposed thermal object detection improves autonomous vehicle’s perception at night.