# Multi-Sensor Alignment for Weather Simulations

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25612 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.25612/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 13 of its 20 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Perception tasks for autonomous vehicles need to work satisfactorily in adverse weather conditions. Due to lack of real-world weather datasets, weather simulations are a promising alternative. To ensure simulations closely mirror real-world weather data, it's crucial that they represent the same weather characteristics, including severity and particle positioning, across different sensors. To achieve this, we propose the Reference Dataset Alignment Method (ReDAM) for weather intensity alignment in fog and Unified-weather-edit (inspired by Weather-edit[1]) for particle positioning alignment in rain and snow. We validate both alignment methods using statistical and geometrical tests, respectively. We find that 3D detection models for non-aligned versions tend to be overly optimistic as compared to aligned versions. We also show the aligned-multi-sensor simulation's effectiveness for achieving robustness for 3D object detection task by finetuning existing sensor fusion models on it.
