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In a world where autonomous driving cars are becoming increasingly more common, creating an adequate infrastructure for this new technology is essential. This includes building and labeling high-definition (HD) maps accurately and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Mahdi Elhousni , Yecheng Lyu , Ziming Zhang , Xinming Huang

The need for large amounts of training and validation data is a huge concern in scaling AI algorithms for autonomous driving. Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS), or label-to-image translation, promises to address this issue by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 George Eskandar , Diandian Guo , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Autonomous vehicles demand detailed maps to maneuver reliably through traffic, which need to be kept up-to-date to ensure a safe operation. A promising way to adapt the maps to the ever-changing road-network is to use crowd-sourced data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Markus Herb , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Historical maps are essential resources that provide insights into the geographical landscapes of the past. They serve as valuable tools for researchers across disciplines such as history, geography, and urban studies, facilitating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yunshuang Yuan , Monika Sester

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

Historical maps are invaluable for analyzing long-term changes in transportation and spatial development, offering a rich source of data for evolutionary studies. However, digitizing and classifying road networks from these maps is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Dominik J. Mühlematter , Sebastian Schweizer , Chenjing Jiao , Xue Xia , Magnus Heitzler , Lorenz Hurni

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

Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on largescale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Hao Chen , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Yefei He , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Chunhua Shen

Historical map collections are highly diverse in style, scale, and geographic focus, often consisting of many single-sheet documents. Yet most work in map recognition focuses on specialist models tailored to homogeneous map series. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Remi Petitpierre

Accurate lane detection, a crucial enabler for autonomous driving, currently relies on obtaining a large and diverse labeled training dataset. In this work, we explore learning from abundant, randomly generated synthetic data, together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Noa Garnett , Roy Uziel , Netalee Efrat , Dan Levi

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

We present an automated technique for computing a map between two genus-zero shapes, which matches semantically corresponding regions to one another. Lack of annotated data prohibits direct inference of 3D semantic priors; instead, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Luca Morreale , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim , Niloy J. Mitra

Synthetic data has been a critical tool for training scene text detection and recognition models. On the one hand, synthetic word images have proven to be a successful substitute for real images in training scene text recognizers. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Shangbang Long , Cong Yao

Historical maps provide valuable information and knowledge about the past. However, as they often feature non-standard projections, hand-drawn styles, and artistic elements, it is challenging for non-experts to identify and interpret them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ziyi Liu , Claudio Affolter , Sidi Wu , Yizi Chen , Lorenz Hurni

With the development of deep neural networks, the demand for a significant amount of annotated training data becomes the performance bottlenecks in many fields of research and applications. Image synthesis can generate annotated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Minghui Liao , Boyu Song , Shangbang Long , Minghang He , Cong Yao , Xiang Bai

Recent work leverages the expressive power of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate labeled synthetic datasets. These dataset generation methods often require new annotations of synthetic images, which forces practitioners to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Austin Xu , Mariya I. Vasileva , Achal Dave , Arjun Seshadri

We describe a novel method of generating high-resolution real-world images of text where the style and textual content of the images are described parametrically. Our method combines text to image retrieval techniques with progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Mayank Gupta , Abhinav Kumar , Sriganesh Madhvanath

Recent advancements in statistical learning and computational abilities have enabled autonomous vehicle technology to develop at a much faster rate. While many of the architectures previously introduced are capable of operating under highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 David Paz , Hengyuan Zhang , Qinru Li , Hao Xiang , Henrik Christensen

Generating synthetic images is an art which emulates the natural process of image generation in a closest possible manner. In this work, we exploit such a framework for data generation in handwritten domain. We render synthetic data using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Praveen Krishnan , C. V. Jawahar

Traffic forecasting models rely on data that needs to be sensed, processed, and stored. This requires the deployment and maintenance of traffic sensing infrastructure, often leading to unaffordable monetary costs. The lack of sensed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Eric L. Manibardo , Ibai Laña , Esther Villar , Javier Del Ser