A glance over the past decade: road scene parsing towards safe and comfortable autonomous driving

• DOI: 10.1007/s43684-025-00096-y
• Publication Date: 2025-03-13T03:04:13Z
• Authors: Rui Fan; Jiahang Li; Jiaqi Li; Jiale Wang; Ziwei Long; Ning Jia; Yanan Liu; Wenshuo Wang; Mohammud J. Bocus; Sergey Vityazev; Xieyuanli Chen; Junhao Xiao; Stepan Andreev; Huimin Lu; Alexander Dvorkovich

Abstract Road scene parsing is a crucial capability for self-driving vehicles and intelligent road inspection systems. Recent research has increasingly focused on enhancing driving safety comfort by improving the detection of both drivable areas defects. This article reviews state-of-the-art networks developed over past decade general-purpose semantic segmentation specialized tasks. It also includes extensive experimental comparisons these across five public datasets. Additionally, we explore key challenges emerging trends in field, aiming to guide researchers toward developing next-generation models more effective reliable parsing.