English
Related papers

Related papers: HDMapGen: A Hierarchical Graph Generative Model of…

200 papers

Along with the rapid growth of autonomous vehicles (AVs), more and more demands are required for environment perception technology. Among others, HD mapping has become one of the more prominent roles in helping the vehicle realize essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Benny Wijaya , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Tuopu Wen , Yunlong Wang , Xuewei Tang , Zheng Fu , Taohua Zhou , Diange Yang

Autonomous vehicles rely on precise high definition (HD) 3d maps for navigation. This paper presents the mapping component of an end-to-end system for crowdsourcing precise 3d maps with semantically meaningful landmarks such as traffic…

Constructing HD semantic maps is a central component of autonomous driving. However, traditional pipelines require a vast amount of human efforts and resources in annotating and maintaining the semantics in the map, which limits its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Qi Li , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

High-definition (HD) Map systems will play a pivotal role in advancing autonomous driving to a higher level, thanks to the significant improvement over traditional two-dimensional (2D) maps. Creating an HD Map requires a huge amount of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jeffrey Redondo , Zhenhui Yuan , Nauman Aslam

Autonomous driving has traditionally relied heavily on costly and labor-intensive High Definition (HD) maps, hindering scalability. In contrast, Standard Definition (SD) maps are more affordable and have worldwide coverage, offering a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Katie Z Luo , Xinshuo Weng , Yan Wang , Shuang Wu , Jie Li , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yue Wang , Marco Pavone

Autonomous driving systems require High-Definition (HD) semantic maps to navigate around urban roads. Existing solutions approach the semantic mapping problem by offline manual annotation, which suffers from serious scalability issues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

Automatic generation of level maps is a popular form of automatic content generation. In this study, a recently developed technique employing the {\em do what's possible} representation is used to create open-ended level maps. Generation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Daniel Ashlock , Christoph Salge

State-of-the-art autonomous driving systems rely on high definition (HD) maps for localization and navigation. However, building and maintaining HD maps is time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, the HD maps assume structured environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Dawei Zhao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Crowdsourcing enables scalable autonomous driving map construction, but low-cost sensor noise hinders quality from improving with data volume. We propose CSMapping, a system that produces accurate semantic maps and topological road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhijian Qiao , Zehuan Yu , Tong Li , Chih-Chung Chou , Wenchao Ding , Shaojie Shen

High-definition (HD) maps are essential in testing autonomous driving systems (ADSs). HD maps essentially determine the potential diversity of the testing scenarios. However, the current HD maps suffer from two main limitations: lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yun Tang , Yuan Zhou , Kairui Yang , Ziyuan Zhong , Baishakhi Ray , Yang Liu , Ping Zhang , Junbo Chen

Autonomous driving perceives surroundings with line-of-sight sensors that are compromised under environmental uncertainties. To achieve real time global information in high definition map, we investigate to share perception information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

Lane topology reasoning techniques play a crucial role in high-definition (HD) mapping and autonomous driving applications. While recent years have witnessed significant advances in this field, there has been limited effort to consolidate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yi Yao , Miao Fan , Shengtong Xu , Haoyi Xiong , Xiangzeng Liu , Wenbo Hu , Wenbing Huang

High-definition (HD) map construction methods are crucial for providing precise and comprehensive static environmental information, which is essential for autonomous driving systems. While Camera-LiDAR fusion techniques have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiaoshuai Hao , Yuting Zhao , Yuheng Ji , Luanyuan Dai , Peng Hao , Dingzhe Li , Shuai Cheng , Rong Yin

Currently, High-Definition (HD) maps are a prerequisite for the stable operation of autonomous vehicles. Such maps contain information about all static road objects for the vehicle to consider during navigation, such as road edges, road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mohamed Sayed , Stepan Perminov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

The robust and safe operation of automated vehicles underscores the critical need for detailed and accurate topological maps. At the heart of this requirement is the construction of lane graphs, which provide essential information on lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Martin Büchner , Simon Dorer , Abhinav Valada

Today's autonomous vehicles rely extensively on high-definition 3D maps to navigate the environment. While this approach works well when these maps are completely up-to-date, safe autonomous vehicles must be able to corroborate the map's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ari Seff , Jianxiong Xiao

Autonomous vehicles rely on detailed and accurate environmental information to operate safely. High definition (HD) maps offer a promising solution, but their high maintenance cost poses a significant barrier to scalable deployment. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Fabian Immel , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Richard Fehler , Frank Bieder , Jonas Merkert , Christoph Stiller

As an essential component of autonomous driving systems, high-definition (HD) maps provide rich and precise environmental information for auto-driving scenarios; however, existing methods, which primarily rely on query-based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jing Yang , Sen Yang , Xiao Tan , Hanli Wang

Accurate High-Definition (HD) map construction is critical for autonomous driving, yet existing methods face a fundamental trade-off: vectorization-based approaches preserve topology but struggle with geometric fidelity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhenxuan Zeng , Lingxuan Wang , Sheng Yang , Yanan He , Mingxia Chen , Wei Suo , Peng Wang

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial to autonomous driving, providing structured representations of road elements to support navigation and planning. However, existing query-based methods often employ random query initialization and depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Bo Lang , Nirav Savaliya , Zhihao Zheng , Jinglun Feng , Zheng-Hang Yeh , Mooi Choo Chuah