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Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

The prediction of surrounding agents' motion is a key for safe autonomous driving. In this paper, we explore navigation maps as an alternative to the predominant High Definition (HD) maps for learning-based motion prediction. Navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Julian Schmidt , Julian Jordan , Franz Gritschneder , Thomas Monninger , Klaus Dietmayer

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

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

A system for semi-automatic vectorization of linear networks (roads, rivers, etc.) on rasterized cartographic maps is presented. In this system, human intervention is limited to a graphic, interactive selection of the color attributes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Carlos Miravet , Enrique Coiras , Javier Santamaria

Behavior prediction in dynamic, multi-agent systems is an important problem in the context of self-driving cars, due to the complex representations and interactions of road components, including moving agents (e.g. pedestrians and vehicles)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Hang Zhao , Yi Shen , Dragomir Anguelov , Congcong Li , Cordelia Schmid

End-to-end autonomous driving with its holistic optimization capabilities, has gained increasing traction in academia and industry. Vectorized representations, which preserve instance-level topological information while reducing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Bo Zhang , Heye Huang , Chunyang Liu , Yaqin Zhang , Zhenhua Xu

In autonomous driving, the high-definition (HD) map plays a crucial role in localization and planning. Recently, several methods have facilitated end-to-end online map construction in DETR-like frameworks. However, little attention has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Guangwei Liu , Ji Zhao , Ningyi Xu

Ensuring adherence to traffic sign regulations is essential for both human and autonomous vehicle navigation. While current online mapping solutions often prioritize the construction of the geometric and connectivity layers of HD maps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xinyuan Chang , Maixuan Xue , Xinran Liu , Zheng Pan , Xing Wei

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

Autonomous Driving is now the promising future of transportation. As one basis for autonomous driving, High Definition Map (HD map) provides high-precision descriptions of the environment, therefore it enables more accurate perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jinliang Xie , Jie Tang , Shaoshan Liu

Autonomous driving without high-definition (HD) maps demands a higher level of active scene understanding. In this competition, the organizers provided the multi-perspective camera images and standard-definition (SD) maps to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zhongyu Yang , Mai Liu , Jinluo Xie , Yueming Zhang , Chen Shen , Wei Shao , Jichao Jiao , Tengfei Xing , Runbo Hu , Pengfei Xu

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

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

High-definition (HD) map provides abundant and precise environmental information of the driving scene, serving as a fundamental and indispensable component for planning in autonomous driving system. We present MapTR, a structured end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Bencheng Liao , Shaoyu Chen , Xinggang Wang , Tianheng Cheng , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Chang Huang

Image vectorization is a process to convert a raster image into a scalable vector graphic format. Objective is to effectively remove the pixelization effect while representing boundaries of image by scaleable parameterized curves. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ho Law , Sung Ha Kang

We propose a map-aided vehicle localization method for GPS-denied environments. This approach exploits prior knowledge of the road grade map and vehicle on-board sensor measurements to accurately estimate the longitudinal position of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Roya Firoozi , Jacopo Guanetti , Roberto Horowitz , Francesco Borrelli

Vector maps are essential in autonomous driving for tasks like localization and planning, yet their creation and maintenance are notably costly. While recent advances in online vector map generation for autonomous vehicles are promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Narayanan Elavathur Ranganatha , Hengyuan Zhang , Shashank Venkatramani , Jing-Yan Liao , Henrik I. Christensen

The widespread use of vector graphics creates a significant demand for vectorization methods. While recent learning-based techniques have shown their capability to create vector images of clear topology, filling these primitives with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Hengyu Zhou , Hui Zhang , Bin Wang

Vectorized HD map is essential for autonomous driving. Remarkable work has been achieved in recent years, but there are still major issues: (1) in the generation of the BEV features, single modality-based methods are of limited perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ruqin Zhou , Chenguang Dai , Wanshou Jiang , Yongsheng Zhang , Hanyun Wang , San Jiang