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High-definition (HD) semantic map generation of the environment is an essential component of autonomous driving. Existing methods have achieved good performance in this task by fusing different sensor modalities, such as LiDAR and camera.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Hao Dong , Weihao Gu , Xianjing Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Huimin Lu , Juho Kannala , Xieyuanli Chen

Diverse and realistic traffic scenarios are crucial for evaluating the AI safety of autonomous driving systems in simulation. This work introduces a data-driven method called TrafficGen for traffic scenario generation. It learns from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Lan Feng , Quanyi Li , Zhenghao Peng , Shuhan Tan , Bolei Zhou

The construction of online vectorized High-Definition (HD) maps is critical for downstream prediction and planning. Recent efforts have built strong baselines for this task, however, shapes and relations of instances in urban road systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhixin Zhang , Yiyuan Zhang , Xiaohan Ding , Fusheng Jin , Xiangyu Yue

In recent years, various state of the art autonomous vehicle systems and architectures have been introduced. These methods include planners that depend on high-definition (HD) maps and models that learn an autonomous agent's controls in an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 David Paz , Hengyuan Zhang , Henrik I. Christensen

High-Definition (HD) maps can provide precise geometric and semantic information of static traffic environments for autonomous driving. Road-boundary is one of the most important information contained in HD maps since it distinguishes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Lu Gan , Xiangcheng Hu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

High-definition (HD) map provides abundant and precise static environmental information of the driving scene, serving as a fundamental and indispensable component for planning in autonomous driving system. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bencheng Liao , Shaoyu Chen , Yunchi Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Chang Huang , Xinggang Wang

The success of motion prediction for autonomous driving relies on integration of information from the HD maps. As maps are naturally graph-structured, investigation on graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding HD maps is burgeoning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Fang Da , Yu Zhang

High definition (HD) map needs to be updated frequently to capture road changes, which is constrained by limited specialized collection vehicles. To maintain an up-to-date map, we explore crowdsourcing data from connected vehicles. Updating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Qiang Liu , Yuru Zhang , Haoxin Wang

Accurate lane topology is essential for autonomous driving, yet traditional methods struggle to model the complex, non-linear structures-such as loops and bidirectional lanes-prevalent in real-world road structure. We present SeqGrowGraph,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mengwei Xie , Shuang Zeng , Xinyuan Chang , Xinran Liu , Zheng Pan , Mu Xu , Xing Wei

Recent advances in high-definition (HD) map construction from surround-view images have highlighted their cost-effectiveness in deployment. However, prevailing techniques often fall short in accurately extracting and utilizing road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenzhao Qiu , Shanmin Pang , Hao zhang , Jianwu Fang , Jianru Xue

Traditional decision and planning frameworks for self-driving vehicles (SDVs) scale poorly in new scenarios, thus they require tedious hand-tuning of rules and parameters to maintain acceptable performance in all foreseeable cases.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Peide Cai , Hengli Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

Lane graph estimation is an essential and highly challenging task in automated driving and HD map learning. Existing methods using either onboard or aerial imagery struggle with complex lane topologies, out-of-distribution scenarios, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Martin Büchner , Jannik Zürn , Ion-George Todoran , Abhinav Valada , Wolfram Burgard

Traditional map-making relies heavily on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), requiring domain expertise and being time-consuming, especially for repetitive tasks. Recent advances in generative AI (GenAI), particularly image diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Claudio Affolter , Sidi Wu , Yizi Chen , Lorenz Hurni

Up-to-date High-Definition (HD) maps are essential for self-driving cars. To achieve constantly updated HD maps, we present a deep neural network (DNN), Diff-Net, to detect changes in them. Compared to traditional methods based on object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Lei He , Shengjie Jiang , Xiaoqing Liang , Ning Wang , Shiyu Song

Maps are a very important component of strategy games, and a time-consuming task if done by hand. Maps generated by traditional PCG techniques such as Perlin noise or tile-based PCG techniques look unnatural and unappealing, thus not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Nunes , João Dias , Pedro A. Santos

In autonomous driving, mapping is critical for motion planning but remains an under-utilized resource for perception tasks such as 3D object detection. Maps can provide robust structural priors of the static environment, helping resolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yang Fu , Yuliang Zou , Hao Xiang , Xin Huang , Yijing Bai , Chen Song , Weijing Shi , Govind Thattai , Dragomir Anguelov , Mingxing Tan , Yingwei Li

In this work, we present a novel method for extensive multi-scale generative terrain modeling. At the core of our model is a cascade of superresolution diffusion models that can be combined to produce consistent images across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ansh Sharma , Albert Xiao , Praneet Rathi , Rohit Kundu , Albert Zhai , Yuan Shen , Shenlong Wang

High-definition (HD) maps offer extensive and accurate environmental information about the driving scene, making them a crucial and essential element for planning within autonomous driving systems. To avoid extensive efforts from manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Michael Hubbertz , Pascal Colling , Qi Han , Tobias Meisen

In real world domains, most graphs naturally exhibit a hierarchical structure. However, data-driven graph generation is yet to effectively capture such structures. To address this, we propose a novel approach that recursively generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mahdi Karami , Jun Luo

In autonomous driving, high-definition (HD) maps and semantic maps in bird's-eye view (BEV) are essential for accurate localization, planning, and decision-making. This paper introduces an enhanced End-to-End model named MapFM for online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Leonid Ivanov , Vasily Yuryev , Dmitry Yudin