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Robust high-definition (HD) map construction is vital for autonomous driving, yet existing methods often struggle with incomplete multi-view camera data. This paper presents SafeMap, a novel framework specifically designed to secure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xiaoshuai Hao , Lingdong Kong , Rong Yin , Pengwei Wang , Jing Zhang , Yunfeng Diao , Shu Zhao

High-definition (HD) maps are essential for autonomous driving systems. Traditionally, an expensive and labor-intensive pipeline is implemented to construct HD maps, which is limited in scalability. In recent years, crowdsourcing and online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Anqi Shi , Yuze Cai , Xiangyu Chen , Jian Pu , Zeyu Fu , Hong Lu

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

High-definition (HD) maps provide environmental information for autonomous driving systems and are essential for safe planning. While existing methods with single-frame input achieve impressive performance for online vectorized HD map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingyu Song , Xudong Chen , Liupei Lu , Jie Li , Katherine A. Skinner

Autonomous Driving is now the promising future of transportation. As one basis for autonomous driving, High Definition Map (HD map) provides high-precision descriptions of the environment, therefore it enables more accurate perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jinliang Xie , Jie Tang , Shaoshan Liu

High-definition (HD) maps are core artifacts for automated driving systems, but their generation commonly relies on sensor-intensive mobile mapping campaigns, while quality assessment often depends on high-precision reference data. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ruidi He , Vaibhav Tiwari , Mohanad Al-Ghobari , Meng Zhang , Andreas Rausch

Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) require accurate calibration of LiDARs and cameras to fuse sensor data accurately for autonomy. Traditional calibration methods typically leverage fiducials captured in a controlled and structured scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Ze Yang , George Chen , Haowei Zhang , Kevin Ta , Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Daniel Murphy , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Raquel Urtasun

Rapid visualization of large-scale spatial vector data is a long-standing challenge in Geographic Information Science. In existing methods, the computation overheads grow rapidly with data volumes, leading to the incapability of providing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mengyu Ma , Ye Wu , Xue Ouyang , Luo Chen , Jun Li , Ning Jing

High Definition (HD) maps are necessary for many applications of automated driving (AD), but their manual creation and maintenance is very costly. Vehicle fleet data from series production vehicles can be used to automatically generate HD…

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

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

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

High-definition (HD) map change detection is the task of determining when sensor data and map data are no longer in agreement with one another due to real-world changes. We collect the first dataset for the task, which we entitle the Trust,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 John Lambert , James Hays

Fast and accurate path planning is important for ground robots to achieve safe and efficient autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. However, most existing methods exploiting either 2D or 2.5D maps struggle to balance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jiayang Liu , Xieyuanli Chen , Junhao Xiao , Sichao Lin , Zhiqiang Zheng , Huimin Lu

Online HD map construction is a fundamental task in autonomous driving systems, aiming to acquire semantic information of map elements around the ego vehicle based on real-time sensor inputs. Recently, several approaches have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ziyang Yan , Ruikai Li , Zhiyong Cui , Bohan Li , Han Jiang , Yilong Ren , Aoyong Li , Zhenning Li , Sijia Wen , Haiyang Yu

High definition (HD) map needs to be updated frequently to capture road changes, which is constrained by limited specialized collection vehicles. To maintain an up-to-date map, we explore crowdsourcing data from connected vehicles. Updating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Qiang Liu , Yuru Zhang , Haoxin Wang

Up-to-date High-Definition (HD) maps are essential for self-driving cars. To achieve constantly updated HD maps, we present a deep neural network (DNN), Diff-Net, to detect changes in them. Compared to traditional methods based on object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Lei He , Shengjie Jiang , Xiaoqing Liang , Ning Wang , Shiyu Song

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

State-of-the-art autonomous driving systems rely on high definition (HD) maps for localization and navigation. However, building and maintaining HD maps is time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, the HD maps assume structured environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Dawei Zhao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

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