CLEAR-DETR: Cross-weather Low-visibility Enhanced Atmospheric Recognition Transformer for Robust Traffic Sign Detection
摘要
Traffic sign detection under foggy conditions poses critical challenges for autonomous driving due to atmospheric scattering that degrades image contrast and blurs edge information. Existing Transformer-based detectors lack explicit mechanisms to handle fog-induced degradation. We propose CLEAR-DETR, a fog-robust framework integrating three complementary components: (1) CSP-EMFI backbone with EdgeEnhancer modules for frequency-domain edge restoration; (2) MSFFN neck with spatial-depth transformation and hybrid attention for multi-scale fusion; and (3) AIFI-RepBN framework replacing LayerNorm with re-parameterized batch normalization for efficient inference. We construct Foggy-100K, comprising 8,581 images across diverse fog densities, for systematic evaluation. On Foggy-100K, CLEAR-DETR achieves 87.1%