TRIDE: A Text-assisted Radar-Image weather-aware fusion network for Depth Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08038v2
• Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:37:28 GMT
• Title: TRIDE: A Text-assisted Radar-Image weather-aware fusion network for Depth Estimation
• Authors: Huawei Sun, Zixu Wang, Hao Feng, Julius Ott, Lorenzo Servadei, Robert Wille,
• Abstract summary: TRIDE is a radar-camera fusion algorithm that enhances text feature extraction by incorporating radar point information.<n>Our method, benchmarked on the nuScenes dataset, demonstrates performance gains over the state-of-the-art.
• Score: 7.90238039959534
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Depth estimation, essential for autonomous driving, seeks to interpret the 3D environment surrounding vehicles. The development of radar sensors, known for their cost-efficiency and robustness, has spurred interest in radar-camera fusion-based solutions. However, existing algorithms fuse features from these modalities without accounting for weather conditions, despite radars being known to be more robust than cameras under adverse weather. Additionally, while Vision-Language models have seen rapid advancement, utilizing language descriptions alongside other modalities for depth estimation remains an open challenge. This paper first introduces a text-generation strategy along with feature extraction and fusion techniques that can assist monocular depth estimation pipelines, leading to improved accuracy across different algorithms on the KITTI dataset. Building on this, we propose TRIDE, a radar-camera fusion algorithm that enhances text feature extraction by incorporating radar point information. To address the impact of weather on sensor performance, we introduce a weather-aware fusion block that adaptively adjusts radar weighting based on current weather conditions. Our method, benchmarked on the nuScenes dataset, demonstrates performance gains over the state-of-the-art, achieving a 12.87% improvement in MAE and a 9.08% improvement in RMSE. Code: https://github.com/harborsarah/TRIDE

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