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Simulating camera sensors is a crucial task in autonomous driving. Although neural radiance fields are exceptional at synthesizing photorealistic views in driving simulations, they still fail to generate extrapolated views. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chenming Wu , Jiadai Sun , Zhelun Shen , Liangjun Zhang

Autonomous driving systems benefit from high-definition (HD) maps that provide critical information about road infrastructure. The online construction of HD maps offers a scalable approach to generate local maps from on-board sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongyu Lyu , Thomas Monninger , Julie Stephany Berrio Perez , Mao Shan , Zhenxing Ming , Stewart Worrall

Motion prediction is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles due to uncertainty in the sensor data, the non-deterministic nature of future, and complex behavior of agents. In this paper, we tackle this problem by representing the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Rabbia Asghar , Manuel Diaz-Zapata , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

Local map construction is a vital component of intelligent driving perception, offering necessary reference for vehicle positioning and planning. Standard Definition map (SDMap), known for its low cost, accessibility, and versatility, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiaqi Li , Pingfan Jia , Jiaxing Chen , Jiaxi Liu , Lei He , Keqiang Li

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

The ability to autonomously navigate in unknown environments is important for mobile robots. The map is the core component to achieve this. Most map representations rely on drift-free state estimation and provide a global metric map to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xuecheng Xu , Cheng Wang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Accurately predicting interactive road agents' future trajectories and planning a socially compliant and human-like trajectory accordingly are important for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose a planning-centric prediction neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jiawei Sun , Chengran Yuan , Shuo Sun , Zhiyang Liu , Terence Goh , Anthony Wong , Keng Peng Tee , Marcelo H. Ang

We introduce a neural architecture for navigation in novel environments. Our proposed architecture learns to map from first-person views and plans a sequence of actions towards goals in the environment. The Cognitive Mapper and Planner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Saurabh Gupta , Varun Tolani , James Davidson , Sergey Levine , Rahul Sukthankar , Jitendra Malik

Video prediction is a useful function for autonomous driving, enabling intelligent vehicles to reliably anticipate how driving scenes will evolve and thereby supporting reasoning and safer planning. However, existing models are constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ke Li , Tianjia Yang , Kaidi Liang , Xianbiao Hu , Ruwen Qin

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

While HDMaps are a crucial component of autonomous driving, they are expensive to acquire and maintain. Estimating these maps from sensors therefore promises to significantly lighten costs. These estimations however overlook existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Rémy Sun , Li Yang , Diane Lingrand , Frédéric Precioso

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

Temporal information is crucial for detecting occluded instances. Existing temporal representations have progressed from BEV or PV features to more compact query features. Compared to these aforementioned features, predictions offer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nan Peng , Xun Zhou , Mingming Wang , Xiaojun Yang , Songming Chen , Guisong Chen

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

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

Autonomous driving has been among the most popular and challenging topics in the past few years. On the road to achieving full autonomy, researchers have utilized various sensors, such as LiDAR, camera, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Zhibin Bao , Sabir Hossain , Haoxiang Lang , Xianke Lin

In recent years, prior maps have become a mainstream tool in autonomous navigation. However, commonly available prior maps are still tailored to control-and-decision tasks, and the use of these maps for localization remains largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Waqas Ali , Patric Jensfelt , Thien-Minh Nguyen

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

Modern intelligent and autonomous robotic applications often require robots to have more information about their environment than that provided by traditional occupancy grid maps. For example, a robot tasked to perform autonomous semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tobias Zaenker , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Learning contextual and spatial environmental representations enhances autonomous vehicle's hazard anticipation and decision-making in complex scenarios. Recent perception systems enhance spatial understanding with sensor fusion but often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Shoaib Azam , Farzeen Munir , Ville Kyrki , Moongu Jeon , Witold Pedrycz