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Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes H. Uhl , Stefan Leyk , Yao-Yi Chiang , Craig A. Knoblock

Automatic extraction of road curbs from uneven, unorganized, noisy and massive 3D point clouds is a challenging task. Existing methods often project 3D point clouds onto 2D planes to extract curbs. However, the projection causes loss of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Sheng Xu , Ruisheng Wang , Han Zheng

Existing lane-level simulation road network generation is labor-intensive, resource-demanding, and costly due to the need for large-scale data collection and manual post-editing. To overcome these limitations, we propose automatically…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liang Xie , Wenke Huang

Automatic road extraction from satellite imagery using deep learning is a viable alternative to traditional manual mapping. Therefore it has received considerable attention recently. However, most of the existing methods are supervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Shiqiao Meng , Zonglin Di , Siwei Yang , Yin Wang

Accurate road segmentation from aerial imagery is fundamental to many geospatial applications. However, existing datasets often suffer from limited scene diversity, low semantic granularity, and poor structural continuity, restricting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chenxu Peng , Chenxu Wang , Yimian Dai , Yongxiang Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Quantitative analysis of channel networks plays an important role in river studies. To provide a quantitative representation of channel networks, we propose a new method that extracts channels from remotely sensed images and estimates their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 F. Isikdogan , A. C. Bovik , P. Passalacqua

Road extraction from very high resolution satellite (VHR) images is one of the most important topics in the field of remote sensing. In this paper, we propose an efficient Non-Local LinkNet with non-local blocks that can grasp relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yooseung Wang , Junghoon Seo , Taegyun Jeon

With the development of intelligent vehicle systems, a high-precision road map is increasingly needed in many aspects. The automatic lane lines extraction and modeling are the most essential steps for the generation of a precise lane-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zehai Yu , Hui Zhu , Linglong Lin , Huawei Liang , Biao Yu , Weixin Huang

The image classification problem has been deeply investigated by the research community, with computer vision algorithms and with the help of Neural Networks. The aim of this paper is to build an image classifier for satellite images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jonas Bokstaller , Yihang She , Zhehan Fu , Tommaso Macrì

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made significant advances in detecting roads from satellite images. However, existing CNN approaches are generally repurposed semantic segmentation architectures and suffer from the poor delineation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tinghuai Wang , Guangming Wang , Kuan Eeik Tan

This paper presents a framework for extracting georeferenced vehicle trajectories from high-altitude drone imagery, addressing key challenges in urban traffic monitoring and the limitations of traditional ground-based systems. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Robert Fonod , Haechan Cho , Hwasoo Yeo , Nikolas Geroliminis

Accurately maintaining digital street maps is labor-intensive. To address this challenge, much work has studied automatically processing geospatial data sources such as GPS trajectories and satellite images to reduce the cost of maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Favyen Bastani , Songtao He , Satvat Jagwani , Mohammad Alizadeh , Hari Balakrishnan , Sanjay Chawla , Sam Madden , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Deep learning is revolutionizing the mapping industry. Under lightweight human curation, computer has generated almost half of the roads in Thailand on OpenStreetMap (OSM) using high-resolution aerial imagery. Bing maps are displaying 125…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Tao Sun , Zonglin Di , Pengyu Che , Chun Liu , Yin Wang

Applications to support pedestrian mobility in urban areas require a complete, and routable graph representation of the built environment. Globally available information, including aerial imagery provides a scalable source for constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yuxiang Zhang , Bill Howe , Sachin Mehta , Nicholas-J Bolten , Anat Caspi

This paper presents a novel approach to computing vector road maps from satellite remotely sensed images, building upon a well-defined Patched Line Segment (PaLiS) representation for road graphs that holds geometric significance. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jiakun Xu , Bowen Xu , Gui-Song Xia , Liang Dong , Nan Xue

The lane graph is critical for applications such as autonomous driving and lane-level route planning. While previous research has focused on extracting lane-level graphs from aerial imagery using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Antonio Ruiz , Andrew Melnik , Nicolo Savioli , Dong Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , Helge Ritter

The majority of current approaches in autonomous driving rely on High-Definition (HD) maps which detail the road geometry and surrounding area. Yet, this reliance is one of the obstacles to mass deployment of autonomous vehicles due to poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Li Zhang , Faezeh Tafazzoli , Gunther Krehl , Runsheng Xu , Timo Rehfeld , Manuel Schier , Arunava Seal

Road Extraction is a sub-domain of Remote Sensing applications; it is a subject of extensive and ongoing research. The procedure of automatically extracting roads from satellite imagery encounters significant challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Arpan Mahara , Md Rezaul Karim Khan , Naphtali D. Rishe , Wenjia Wang , Seyed Masoud Sadjadi

Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Oleg Platonov , Ekaterina Alimaskina , Gleb Bazhenov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Road information extraction from 3D point clouds is useful for urban planning and traffic management. Existing methods often rely on local features and the refraction angle of lasers from kerbs, which makes them sensitive to variable kerb…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Muhammad Ibrahim , Atif Mansoor , Hasnein Tareque , Ajmal Mian