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Many historical map sheets are publicly available for studies that require long-term historical geographic data. The cartographic design of these maps includes a combination of map symbols and text labels. Automatically reading text labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zekun Li , Runyu Guan , Qianmu Yu , Yao-Yi Chiang , Craig A. Knoblock

Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) provide better inference performance in many tasks with the help of an external memory. The recently developed differentiable neural computer (DNC) is a MANN that has been shown to outperform in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yaoyu Tao , Zhengya Zhang

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an essential part of a safe and robust end-to-end autonomous driving (AD) pipeline. Onboard camera-based approaches suffer from limited depth perception and degraded accuracy due to occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kanak Mazumder , Fabian B. Flohr

Nowadays, a huge number of images are available. However, retrieving a required image for an ordinary user is a challenging task in computer vision systems. During the past two decades, many types of research have been introduced to improve…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amir Vatani , Milad Taleby Ahvanooey , Mostafa Rahimi

Annotating automotive radar data is a difficult task. This article presents an automated way of acquiring data labels which uses a highly accurate and portable global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The proposed system is discussed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Nicolas Scheiner , Nils Appenrodt , Jürgen Dickmann , Bernhard Sick

High-definition (HD) maps are core artifacts for automated driving systems, but their generation commonly relies on sensor-intensive mobile mapping campaigns, while quality assessment often depends on high-precision reference data. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ruidi He , Vaibhav Tiwari , Mohanad Al-Ghobari , Meng Zhang , Andreas Rausch

Thousands of scanned historical topographic maps contain valuable information covering long periods of time, such as how the hydrography of a region has changed over time. Efficiently unlocking the information in these maps requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Weiwei Duan , Yao-Yi Chiang , Stefan Leyk , Johannes H. Uhl , Craig A. Knoblock

The advancement of Document Intelligence (DI) demands large-scale, high-quality training data, yet manual annotation remains a critical bottleneck. While data generation methods are evolving rapidly, existing surveys are constrained by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dehao Ying , Fengchang Yu , Haihua Chen , Changjiang Jiang , Yurong Li , Wei Lu

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

Annotated data has become the most important bottleneck in training accurate machine learning models, especially for areas that require domain expertise. A recent approach to deal with the above issue proposes using natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yannis Papanikolaou

High quality perception is essential for autonomous driving (AD) systems. To reach the accuracy and robustness that are required by such systems, several types of sensors must be combined. Currently, mostly cameras and laser scanners…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 A. Ouaknine , A. Newson , J. Rebut , F. Tupin , P. Pérez

Machine learning models have shown increased accuracy in classification tasks when the training process incorporates human perceptual information. However, a challenge in training human-guided models is the cost associated with collecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Colton R. Crum , Aidan Boyd , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

Although the annotation paradigm based on Large Language Models (LLMs) has made significant breakthroughs in recent years, its actual deployment still has two core bottlenecks: first, the cost of calling commercial APIs in large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yao Lu , Zhaiyuan Ji , Jiawei Du , Yu Shanqing , Qi Xuan , Tianyi Zhou

For scalable autonomous driving, a robust map-based localization system, independent of GPS, is fundamental. To achieve such map-based localization, online high-definition (HD) map construction plays a significant role in accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Juyeb Shin , Hyeonjun Jeong , Francois Rameau , Dongsuk Kum

Most autonomous cars rely on the availability of high-definition (HD) maps. Current research aims to address this constraint by directly predicting HD map elements from onboard sensors and reasoning about the relationships between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Khanh Son Pham , Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Johannes Betz , Cyrill Stachniss

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task for robot navigation and safety. However, it requires huge amounts of pixelwise annotations to yield accurate results. While recent progress in computer vision algorithms has been heavily boosted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Alina Marcu , Dragos Costea , Vlad Licaret , Marius Leordeanu

Multi-target multi-camera tracking (MTMCT) plays an important role in intelligent video analysis, surveillance video retrieval, and other application scenarios. Nowadays, the deep-learning-based MTMCT has been the mainstream and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Haohong Liao , Silin Zheng , Xuelin Shen , Mark Junjie Li , Xu Wang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the leading research topics of the last decade. As sensing technologies have matured and their economic costs have declined, a host of novel applications, e.g., in healthcare, industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fadi Al Machot , Graziano Pravadelli , Philipp H. Kindt

As the number of applications that use machine learning algorithms increases, the need for labeled data useful for training such algorithms intensifies. Getting labels typically involves employing humans to do the annotation, which directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Alexandros Ntoulas , Omar Alonso , Vasilis Kandylas

High-definition (HD) maps play a crucial role in autonomous driving systems. Recent methods have attempted to construct HD maps in real-time using vehicle onboard sensors. Due to the inherent limitations of onboard sensors, which include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Wenjie Gao , Jiawei Fu , Yanqing Shen , Haodong Jing , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng