AurigaNet: A Real-Time Multi-Task Network for Enhanced Urban Driving Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10660v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:04:29 GMT
• Title: AurigaNet: A Real-Time Multi-Task Network for Enhanced Urban Driving Perception
• Authors: Kiarash Ghasemzadeh, Sedigheh Dehghani,
• Abstract summary: Self-driving cars hold significant potential to reduce traffic accidents, alleviate congestion, and enhance urban mobility.<n>However, developing reliable AI systems for autonomous vehicles remains a substantial challenge.<n>We present AurigaNet, an advanced multi-task network architecture designed to push the boundaries of autonomous driving perception.
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• Abstract: Self-driving cars hold significant potential to reduce traffic accidents, alleviate congestion, and enhance urban mobility. However, developing reliable AI systems for autonomous vehicles remains a substantial challenge. Over the past decade, multi-task learning has emerged as a powerful approach to address complex problems in driving perception. Multi-task networks offer several advantages, including increased computational efficiency, real-time processing capabilities, optimized resource utilization, and improved generalization. In this study, we present AurigaNet, an advanced multi-task network architecture designed to push the boundaries of autonomous driving perception. AurigaNet integrates three critical tasks: object detection, lane detection, and drivable area instance segmentation. The system is trained and evaluated using the BDD100K dataset, renowned for its diversity in driving conditions. Key innovations of AurigaNet include its end-to-end instance segmentation capability, which significantly enhances both accuracy and efficiency in path estimation for autonomous vehicles. Experimental results demonstrate that AurigaNet achieves an 85.2% IoU in drivable area segmentation, outperforming its closest competitor by 0.7%. In lane detection, AurigaNet achieves a remarkable 60.8% IoU, surpassing other models by more than 30%. Furthermore, the network achieves an mAP@0.5:0.95 of 47.6% in traffic object detection, exceeding the next leading model by 2.9%. Additionally, we validate the practical feasibility of AurigaNet by deploying it on embedded devices such as the Jetson Orin NX, where it demonstrates competitive real-time performance. These results underscore AurigaNet's potential as a robust and efficient solution for autonomous driving perception systems. The code can be found here https://github.com/KiaRational/AurigaNet.

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