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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

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

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

Vectorized high-definition map (HD-map) construction, which focuses on the perception of centimeter-level environmental information, has attracted significant research interest in the autonomous driving community. Most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Limeng Qiao , Wenjie Ding , Xi Qiu , Chi Zhang

Constructing high-definition (HD) maps from sensory input requires accurately mapping the road elements in image space to the Bird's Eye View (BEV) space. The precision of this mapping directly impacts the quality of the final vectorized HD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Fatih Erdoğan , Merve Rabia Barın , Fatma Güney

Constructing HD semantic maps is a central component of autonomous driving. However, traditional pipelines require a vast amount of human efforts and resources in annotating and maintaining the semantics in the map, which limits its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Qi Li , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

High-definition (HD) maps have played an integral role in the development of modern autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks, albeit with high associated labeling and maintenance costs. As a result, many recent works have proposed methods for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xunjiang Gu , Guanyu Song , Igor Gilitschenski , Marco Pavone , Boris Ivanovic

High Definition (HD) maps are maps with precise definitions of road lanes with rich semantics of the traffic rules. They are critical for several key stages in an autonomous driving system, including motion forecasting and planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Lu Mi , Hang Zhao , Charlie Nash , Xiaohan Jin , Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid , Nir Shavit , Yuning Chai , Dragomir Anguelov

High-precision vectorized maps are indispensable for autonomous driving, yet traditional LiDAR-based creation is costly and slow, while single-vehicle perception methods lack accuracy and robustness, particularly in adverse conditions. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zebang Feng , Miao Fan , Bao Liu , Shengtong Xu , Haoyi Xiong

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

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

Autonomous driving requires understanding infrastructure elements, such as lanes and crosswalks. To navigate safely, this understanding must be derived from sensor data in real-time and needs to be represented in vectorized form. Learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Monninger , Md Zafar Anwar , Stanislaw Antol , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Recent advances in high-definition (HD) map construction from surround-view images have highlighted their cost-effectiveness in deployment. However, prevailing techniques often fall short in accurately extracting and utilizing road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenzhao Qiu , Shanmin Pang , Hao zhang , Jianwu Fang , Jianru Xue

High-Definition (HD) maps play a crucial role in autonomous vehicle navigation, complementing onboard perception sensors for improved accuracy and safety. Traditional HD map generation relies on dedicated mapping vehicles, which are costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Gamal Elghazaly , Raphael Frank

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

Information visualization is essential in making sense out of large data sets. Often, high-dimensional data are visualized as a collection of points in 2-dimensional space through dimensionality reduction techniques. However, these…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Emden R. Gansner , Yifan Hu , Stephen G. Kobourov

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

The success of motion prediction for autonomous driving relies on integration of information from the HD maps. As maps are naturally graph-structured, investigation on graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding HD maps is burgeoning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Fang Da , Yu Zhang

The development of online high-definition maps is significant since they provide real-time, accurate, and updatable geographic information for location-based applications, such as autonomous driving and intelligent transportation, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mingchao Jiang , Yin Cheng , Linghai Liu

Vectorized High-Definition (HD) map construction requires predictions of the category and point coordinates of map elements (e.g. road boundary, lane divider, pedestrian crossing, etc.). State-of-the-art methods are mainly based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yi Zhou , Hui Zhang , Jiaqian Yu , Yifan Yang , Sangil Jung , Seung-In Park , ByungIn Yoo