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A map, as crucial information for downstream applications of an autonomous driving system, is usually represented in lanelines or centerlines. However, existing literature on map learning primarily focuses on either detecting geometry-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianyu Li , Peijin Jia , Bangjun Wang , Li Chen , Kun Jiang , Junchi Yan , Hongyang Li

High-definition (HD) maps are essential for autonomous driving, providing precise information such as road boundaries, lane dividers, and crosswalks to enable safe and accurate navigation. However, traditional HD map generation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zihan Zhang , Abhijit Ravichandran , Pragnya Korti , Luobin Wang , Henrik I. Christensen

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is crucial for scaling autonomous driving systems. While Transformer-based methods have become prevalent in online HD map construction, most existing approaches overlook the inherent spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tianhui Cai , Yun Zhang , Zewei Zhou , Zhiyu Huang , Jiaqi Ma

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

The majority of current approaches in autonomous driving rely on High-Definition (HD) maps which detail the road geometry and surrounding area. Yet, this reliance is one of the obstacles to mass deployment of autonomous vehicles due to poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Li Zhang , Faezeh Tafazzoli , Gunther Krehl , Runsheng Xu , Timo Rehfeld , Manuel Schier , Arunava Seal

Safety constitutes a foundational imperative for autonomous driving systems, necessitating maximal incorporation of accessible prior information. This study establishes that temporal perception buffers and cost-efficient high-definition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Nan Peng , Xun Zhou , Mingming Wang , Guisong Chen , Wenqi Xu

Recent advances in autonomous driving systems have shifted towards reducing reliance on high-definition maps (HDMaps) due to the huge costs of annotation and maintenance. Instead, researchers are focusing on online vectorized HDMap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Sen Yang , Minyue Jiang , Ziwei Fan , Xiaolu Xie , Xiao Tan , Yingying Li , Errui Ding , Liang Wang , Jingdong Wang

Currently, High-Definition (HD) maps are a prerequisite for the stable operation of autonomous vehicles. Such maps contain information about all static road objects for the vehicle to consider during navigation, such as road edges, road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mohamed Sayed , Stepan Perminov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

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 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

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

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

High-definition (HD) maps offer extensive and accurate environmental information about the driving scene, making them a crucial and essential element for planning within autonomous driving systems. To avoid extensive efforts from manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Michael Hubbertz , Pascal Colling , Qi Han , Tobias Meisen

Accurate online map matching is fundamental to vehicle navigation and the activation of intelligent driving functions. Current online map matching methods are prone to errors in complex road networks, especially in multilevel road area. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xin Bi , Zhichao Li , Yuxuan Xia , Panpan Tong , Lijuan Zhang , Yang Chen , Junsheng Fu

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

High-definition (HD) map is crucial for autonomous driving systems. Most existing works design map elements detection heads based on the DETR decoder. However, the initial queries lack explicit incorporation of physical positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Huiyuan Xiong , Jun Shen , Taohong Zhu , Yuelong Pan

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

Online High-Definition (HD) maps have emerged as the preferred option for autonomous driving, overshadowing the counterpart offline HD maps due to flexible update capability and lower maintenance costs. However, contemporary online HD map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Siyu Li , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Song Wang , You Yao , Zhiyong Li

In autonomous driving, High Definition (HD) maps provide a complete lane model that is not limited by sensor range and occlusions. However, the generation and upkeep of HD maps involves periodic data collection and human annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Michael Mink , Thomas Monninger , Steffen Staab

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