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High-Definition (HD) maps are essential for the safety of autonomous driving systems. While existing techniques employ camera images and onboard sensors to generate vectorized high-precision maps, they are constrained by their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Tianyuan Yuan , Yicheng Liu , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

Autonomous driving systems require High-Definition (HD) semantic maps to navigate around urban roads. Existing solutions approach the semantic mapping problem by offline manual annotation, which suffers from serious scalability issues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

In recent years, prior maps have become a mainstream tool in autonomous navigation. However, commonly available prior maps are still tailored to control-and-decision tasks, and the use of these maps for localization remains largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Waqas Ali , Patric Jensfelt , Thien-Minh Nguyen

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

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

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

Constructing high-definition (HD) maps is a crucial requirement for enabling autonomous driving. In recent years, several map segmentation algorithms have been developed to address this need, leveraging advancements in Bird's-Eye View (BEV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Peijin Jia , Tuopu Wen , Ziang Luo , Mengmeng Yang , Kun Jiang , Zhiquan Lei , Xuewei Tang , Ziyuan Liu , Le Cui , Bo Zhang , Long Huang , Diange Yang

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 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

High-definition (HD) map provides abundant and precise static environmental information of the driving scene, serving as a fundamental and indispensable component for planning in autonomous driving system. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bencheng Liao , Shaoyu Chen , Yunchi Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Chang Huang , Xinggang Wang

While bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception models can be useful for building high-definition maps (HD-Maps) with less human labor, their results are often unreliable and demonstrate noticeable inconsistencies in the predicted HD-Maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ziyang Xie , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

High-definition (HD) Map systems will play a pivotal role in advancing autonomous driving to a higher level, thanks to the significant improvement over traditional two-dimensional (2D) maps. Creating an HD Map requires a huge amount of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jeffrey Redondo , Zhenhui Yuan , Nauman Aslam

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

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

We propose a novel end-to-end pipeline for online long-range vectorized high-definition (HD) map construction using on-board camera sensors. The vectorized representation of HD maps, employing polylines and polygons to represent map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Jingyi Yu , Zizhao Zhang , Shengfu Xia , Jizhang Sang

To reduce the reliance on high-definition (HD) maps, a growing trend in autonomous driving is leveraging onboard sensors to generate vectorized maps online. However, current methods are mostly constrained by processing only single-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiagang Chen , Liangliang Pan , Shunping Ji , Ji Zhao , Zichao Zhang

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

Offline vectorized maps constitute critical infrastructure for high-precision autonomous driving and mapping services. Existing approaches rely predominantly on single ego-vehicle trajectories, which fundamentally suffer from viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zedong Dan , Zijie Wang , Wei Zhang , Xiangru Lin , Weiming Zhang , Xiao Tan , Jingdong Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Vectorized high-definition (HD) maps are essential for an autonomous driving system. Recently, state-of-the-art map vectorization methods are mainly based on DETR-like framework to generate HD maps in an end-to-end manner. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Kuang Wu , Chuan Yang , Zhanbin Li

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