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The robust and safe operation of automated vehicles underscores the critical need for detailed and accurate topological maps. At the heart of this requirement is the construction of lane graphs, which provide essential information on lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Martin Büchner , Simon Dorer , Abhinav Valada

Remote sensing image plays an irreplaceable role in fields such as agriculture, water resources, military, and disaster relief. Pixel-level interpretation is a critical aspect of remote sensing image applications; however, a prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kaiyu Li , Ruixun Liu , Xiangyong Cao , Xueru Bai , Feng Zhou , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

Roads are among the most essential components of any country's infrastructure. By facilitating the movement and exchange of people, ideas, and goods, they support economic and cultural activity both within and across local and international…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 John Kamalu , Benjamin Choi

The process of automatic generation of a road map from GPS trajectories, called map inference, remains a challenging task to perform on a geospatial data from a variety of domains as the majority of existing studies focus on road maps in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Arian Prabowo , Piotr Koniusz , Wei Shao , Flora D. Salim

This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance specialized on unpaved roads and off-road environments. In this research, the authors have investigated the behavior of Deep Learning algorithms…

The extreme popularity over the years for railway transportation urges the necessity to maintain efficient railway management systems around the globe. Even though, at present, there exist a large collection of Computer Aided Designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Obadage Rochana Rumalshan , Pramuka Weerasinghe , Mohamed Shaheer , Prabhath Gunathilake , Erunika Dayaratna

This paper studies real-world road networks from an algorithmic perspective, focusing on empirical studies that yield useful properties of road networks that can be exploited in the design of fast algorithms that deal with geographic data.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-05-14 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

With a great amount of research going on in the field of autonomous vehicles or self-driving cars, there has been considerable progress in road detection and tracking algorithms. Most of these algorithms use GPS to handle road junctions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Saumya Kumaar , Navaneethkrishnan B , Sumedh Mannar , S N Omkar

Today's autonomous vehicles rely extensively on high-definition 3D maps to navigate the environment. While this approach works well when these maps are completely up-to-date, safe autonomous vehicles must be able to corroborate the map's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ari Seff , Jianxiong Xiao

Efficient routing of mobile robot fleets is crucial in intralogistics, where delays and deadlocks can substantially reduce system throughput. Roadmap design, specifying feasible transport routes, directly affects fleet coordination and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Marvin Rüdt , Constantin Enke , Kai Furmans

We have released an open dataset with global coverage on road surface characteristics (paved or unpaved) derived utilising 105 million images from the world's largest crowdsourcing-based street view platform, Mapillary, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sukanya Randhawa , Eren Aygun , Guntaj Randhawa , Benjamin Herfort , Sven Lautenbach , Alexander Zipf

Road markings provide guidance to traffic participants and enforce safe driving behaviour, understanding their semantic meaning is therefore paramount in (automated) driving. However, producing the vast quantities of road marking labels…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Tom Bruls , Horia Porav , Lars Kunze , Paul Newman

This paper describes a methodology to produce a 7-classes land cover map of urban areas from very high resolution images and limited noisy labeled data. The objective is to make a segmentation map of a large area (a french department) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Thomas Tilak , Arnaud Braun , David Chandler , Nicolas David , Sylvain Galopin , Amélie Lombard , Michaël Michaud , Camille Parisel , Matthieu Porte , Marjorie Robert

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Low-latency intelligent systems are required for autonomous driving on non-uniform terrain in open-pit mines and developing countries. This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles on unpaved roads and off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Nelson Alves Ferreira Neto

This research paper presents a novel approach to pothole detection using Deep Learning and Image Processing techniques. The proposed system leverages the VGG16 model for feature extraction and utilizes a custom Siamese network with triplet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Guruprasad Parasnis , Anmol Chokshi , Vansh Jain , Kailas Devadkar

A new era of space exploration and exploitation is fast approaching. A multitude of spacecraft will flow in the future decades under the propulsive momentum of the new space economy. Yet, the flourishing proliferation of deep-space assets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Eleonora Andreis , Paolo Panicucci , Francesco Topputo

Autonomous driving requires a structured understanding of the surrounding road network to navigate. One of the most common and useful representation of such an understanding is done in the form of BEV lane graphs. In this work, we use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yigit Baran Can , Alexander Liniger , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

While Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved human-like performance on many visual and textual reasoning tasks, their proficiency in fine-grained spatial understanding, such as route tracing on maps remains limited. Unlike humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Artemis Panagopoulou , Aveek Purohit , Achin Kulshrestha , Soroosh Yazdani , Mohit Goyal

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