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We present a framework for dynamic trajectory generation for autonomous navigation, which does not rely on HD maps as the underlying representation. High Definition (HD) maps have become a key component in most autonomous driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 David Paz , Hao Xiang , Andrew Liang , Henrik I. Christensen

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

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

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

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

Deep-learning-based techniques have been widely adopted for autonomous driving software stacks for mass production in recent years, focusing primarily on perception modules, with some work extending this method to prediction modules.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Weijian Sun , Yanbo Jia , Qi Zeng , Zihao Liu , Jiang Liao , Yue Li , Xianfeng Li

Today's software stacks for autonomous vehicles rely on HD maps to enable sufficient localization, accurate path planning, and reliable motion prediction. Recent developments have resulted in pipelines for the automated generation of HD…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Maximilian Leitenstern , Florian Sauerbeck , Dominik Kulmer , Johannes Betz

Vectorized maps are indispensable for precise navigation and the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. Traditional methods for constructing these maps fall into two categories: offline techniques, which rely on expensive, labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Quanxin Zheng , Miao Fan , Shengtong Xu , Linghe Kong , Haoyi Xiong

Autonomous driving faces safety challenges due to a lack of global perspective and the semantic information of vectorized high-definition (HD) maps. Information from roadside cameras can greatly expand the map perception range through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Miao Fan , Shanshan Yu , Shengtong Xu , Kun Jiang , Haoyi Xiong , Xiangzeng Liu

In autonomous driving, high-definition (HD) maps and semantic maps in bird's-eye view (BEV) are essential for accurate localization, planning, and decision-making. This paper introduces an enhanced End-to-End model named MapFM for online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Leonid Ivanov , Vasily Yuryev , Dmitry Yudin

Autonomous vehicles rely on precise high definition (HD) 3d maps for navigation. This paper presents the mapping component of an end-to-end system for crowdsourcing precise 3d maps with semantically meaningful landmarks such as traffic…

Nowadays, autonomous vehicle technology is becoming more and more mature. Critical to progress and safety, high-definition (HD) maps, a type of centimeter-level map collected using a laser sensor, provide accurate descriptions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kun Tang , Xu Cao , Zhipeng Cao , Tong Zhou , Erlong Li , Ao Liu , Shengtao Zou , Chang Liu , Shuqi Mei , Elena Sizikova , Chao Zheng

Autonomous robots rely on geometric maps to inform a diverse set of perception and decision-making algorithms. As autonomy requires reasoning and planning on multiple scales, each algorithm may require a different map for optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 David Thorne , Nathan Chan , Christa S. Robison , Philip R. Osteen , Brett T. Lopez

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

High-definition maps (HD maps) are a key component of most modern self-driving systems due to their valuable semantic and geometric information. Unfortunately, building HD maps has proven hard to scale due to their cost as well as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sergio Casas , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

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

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

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

High-definition road maps play a crucial role in the functionality and verification of highly automated driving functions. These contain precise information about the road network, geometry, condition, as well as traffic signs. Despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Leon Eisemann , Johannes Maucher

Crowdsourcing enables scalable autonomous driving map construction, but low-cost sensor noise hinders quality from improving with data volume. We propose CSMapping, a system that produces accurate semantic maps and topological road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhijian Qiao , Zehuan Yu , Tong Li , Chih-Chung Chou , Wenchao Ding , Shaojie Shen