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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

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

In autonomous driving, there is growing interest in end-to-end online vectorized map perception in bird's-eye-view (BEV) space, with an expectation that it could replace traditional high-cost offline high-definition (HD) maps. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaoyu Zhang , Guangwei Liu , Zihao Liu , Ningyi Xu , Yunhui Liu , Ji Zhao

Accurate environmental representations are essential for autonomous driving, providing the foundation for safe and efficient navigation. Traditionally, high-definition (HD) maps are providing this representation of the static road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

In many autonomous mapping tasks, the maps cannot be accurately constructed due to various reasons such as sparse, noisy, and partial sensor measurements. We propose a novel map prediction method built upon the recent success of Low-Rank…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zheng Chen , Shi Bai , Lantao Liu

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

Along with the rapid growth of autonomous vehicles (AVs), more and more demands are required for environment perception technology. Among others, HD mapping has become one of the more prominent roles in helping the vehicle realize essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Benny Wijaya , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Tuopu Wen , Yunlong Wang , Xuewei Tang , Zheng Fu , Taohua Zhou , Diange Yang

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

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

Vectorized high-definition (HD) map is essential for autonomous driving, providing detailed and precise environmental information for advanced perception and planning. However, current map vectorization methods often exhibit deviations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Gongjie Zhang , Jiahao Lin , Shuang Wu , Yilin Song , Zhipeng Luo , Yang Xue , Shijian Lu , Zuoguan Wang

Understanding road geometry is a critical component of the autonomous vehicle (AV) stack. While high-definition (HD) maps can readily provide such information, they suffer from high labeling and maintenance costs. Accordingly, many recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Xunjiang Gu , Guanyu Song , Igor Gilitschenski , Marco Pavone , Boris Ivanovic

High-definition (HD) maps are important for autonomous driving, but their manual generation and maintenance is very expensive. This motivates the usage of an automated map generation pipeline. Fleet vehicles provide sufficient sensors for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Alexander Blumberg , Jonas Merkert , Christoph Stiller

High-definition (HD) maps are essential for autonomous driving systems. Traditionally, an expensive and labor-intensive pipeline is implemented to construct HD maps, which is limited in scalability. In recent years, crowdsourcing and online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Anqi Shi , Yuze Cai , Xiangyu Chen , Jian Pu , Zeyu Fu , Hong Lu

Modern autonomous driving systems are typically divided into three main tasks: perception, prediction, and planning. The planning task involves predicting the trajectory of the ego vehicle based on inputs from both internal intention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Ze Feng , Jinhao Du , Yongqiang Mao , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Zichang Tan , Yifu Zhang , Xiaoqing Ye , Jingdong Wang

Autonomous driving perceives surroundings with line-of-sight sensors that are compromised under environmental uncertainties. To achieve real time global information in high definition map, we investigate to share perception information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

The map-matching is an essential preprocessing step for most of the trajectory-based applications. Although it has been an active topic for more than two decades and, driven by the emerging applications, is still under development. There is…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Pingfu Chao , Yehong Xu , Wen Hua , Xiaofang Zhou

Vectorized high-definition (HD) maps contain detailed information about surrounding road elements, which are crucial for various downstream tasks in modern autonomous vehicles, such as motion planning and vehicle control. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhenhua Xu , Kwan-Yee. K. Wong , Hengshuang Zhao

Acquisition and maintenance are central problems in deploying high-definition (HD) maps for autonomous driving, with two lines of research prevalent in current literature: Online HD map generation and HD map change detection. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lena Wild , Ludvig Ericson , Rafael Valencia , Patric Jensfelt

Building and maintaining High-Definition (HD) maps represents a large barrier to autonomous vehicle deployment. This, along with advances in modern online map detection models, has sparked renewed interest in the online mapping problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Samuel M. Bateman , Ning Xu , H. Charles Zhao , Yael Ben Shalom , Vince Gong , Greg Long , Will Maddern

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