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Autonomous driving car is becoming more of a reality, as a key component,high-definition(HD) maps shows its value in both market place and industry. Even though HD maps generation from LiDAR or stereo/perspective imagery has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Andi Zang , Runsheng Xu , Zichen Li , David Doria

Deep learning-based methods have been extensively explored for automatic building mapping from high-resolution remote sensing images over recent years. While most building mapping models produce vector polygons of buildings for geographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Mingming Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In geospatial planning, it is often essential to represent objects in a vectorized format, as this format easily translates to downstream tasks such as web development, graphics, or design. While these problems are frequently addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maxim Khomiakov , Michael Riis Andersen , Jes Frellsen

The paper presents a new model for single channel images low-level interpretation. The image is decomposed into a graph which captures a complete set of structural features. The description allows to accurately identify every edge location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alessandro Dal Palu'

With the explosive growth of web-based cameras and mobile devices, billions of photographs are uploaded to the internet. We can trivially collect a huge number of photo streams for various goals, such as 3D scene reconstruction and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jianjun Yang , Yin Wang , Honggang Wang , Kun Hua , Wei Wang , Ju Shen

Recent advances in image acquisition and scene reconstruction have enabled the generation of high-quality structural urban scene geometry, given sufficient site information. However, current capture techniques often overlook the crucial…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Weidan Xiong , Bochuan Zeng , Ziyu Hu , Jianwei Guo , Ke Xie , Hui Huang

Classical unsupervised learning methods like clustering and linear dimensionality reduction parametrize large-scale geometry when it is discrete or linear, while more modern methods from manifold learning find low dimensional representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Luis Scoccola , Uzu Lim , Heather A. Harrington

The perception of high-definition maps is an integral component of environmental perception in autonomous driving systems. Existing research have often focused on online construction of high-definition maps. For instance, the Maptr[9]…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shiyu Gao , Hao Jiang

Road network extraction from satellite images is widely applicated in intelligent traffic management and autonomous driving fields. The high-resolution remote sensing images contain complex road areas and distracted background, which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yijia Xu , Liqiang Zhang , Wuming Zhang , Suhong Liu , Jingwen Li , Xingang Li , Yuebin Wang , Yang Li

This paper tackles the task of estimating the topology of filamentary networks such as retinal vessels and road networks. Building on top of a global model that performs a dense semantical classification of the pixels of the image, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Carles Ventura , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Sergi Caelles , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Luc Van Gool

Representing a scanned map of the real environment as a topological structure is an important research topic in robotics. Since topological representations of maps save a huge amount of map storage space and online computing time, they are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Jiawei Hou , Yijun Yuan , Sören Schwertfeger

Extracting building footprints from aerial images is essential for precise urban mapping with photogrammetric computer vision technologies. Existing approaches mainly assume that the roof and footprint of a building are well overlapped,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jinwang Wang , Lingxuan Meng , Weijia Li , Wen Yang , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia

Topological data analysis aims to extract topological quantities from data, which tend to focus on the broader global structure of the data rather than local information. The Mapper method, specifically, generalizes clustering methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jacek Cyranka , Alexander Georges , David Meyer

Streets networks provide an invaluable source of information about the different temporal and spatial patterns emerging in our cities. These streets are often represented as graphs where intersections are modelled as nodes and streets as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-10 Mateo Neira , Roberto Murcio

Many works in the recent literature introduce semantic mapping methods that use CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) to recognize semantic properties in images. The types of properties (eg.: room size, place category, and objects) and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ygor C. N. Sousa , Hansenclever F. Bassani

Surface topography refers to the geometric micro-structure of a surface and defines its tactile characteristics (typically in the sub-millimeter range). High-resolution 3D scanning techniques developed recently enable the 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Matthias Zeppelzauer , Markus Seidl

The accurate and automatic extraction of roads from satellite imagery is critical for applications in navigation and urban planning, significantly reducing the need for manual annotation. Many existing methods decompose this task into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhengyang Wei , Renzhi Jing , Yiyi He , Jenny Suckale

Our goal is to use overhead imagery to understand patterns in traffic flow, for instance answering questions such as how fast could you traverse Times Square at 3am on a Sunday. A traditional approach for solving this problem would be to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Scott Workman , Nathan Jacobs

As maintaining road networks is labor-intensive, many automatic road extraction approaches have been introduced to solve this real-world problem, fueled by the abundance of large-scale high-resolution satellite imagery and advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Soojung Hong , Kwanghee Choi

We approach instantaneous mapping, converting images to a top-down view of the world, as a translation problem. We show how a novel form of transformer network can be used to map from images and video directly to an overhead map or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Avishkar Saha , Oscar Mendez Maldonado , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden