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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…

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

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

While recent online HD mapping methods relieve burdened offline pipelines and solve map freshness, they remain limited by perceptual inaccuracies, occlusion in dense traffic, and an inability to fuse multi-agent observations. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yuheng Du , Sheng Yang , Lingxuan Wang , Zhenghua Hou , Chengying Cai , Zhitao Tan , Mingxia Chen , Shi-Sheng Huang , Qiang Li

The construction of online vectorized High-Definition (HD) maps is critical for downstream prediction and planning. Recent efforts have built strong baselines for this task, however, shapes and relations of instances in urban road systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhixin Zhang , Yiyuan Zhang , Xiaohan Ding , Fusheng Jin , Xiangyu Yue

Accurately and globally mapping human infrastructure is an important and challenging task with applications in routing, regulation compliance monitoring, and natural disaster response management etc.. In this paper we present progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Rui Zhang , Conrad Albrecht , Wei Zhang , Xiaodong Cui , Ulrich Finkler , David Kung , Siyuan Lu

The construction of Vectorized High-Definition (HD) map typically requires capturing both category and geometry information of map elements. Current state-of-the-art methods often adopt solely either point-level or instance-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Jing Yang , Minyue Jiang , Sen Yang , Xiao Tan , Yingying Li , Errui Ding , Hanli Wang , Jingdong Wang

High-precision vectorized maps are indispensable for autonomous driving, yet traditional LiDAR-based creation is costly and slow, while single-vehicle perception methods lack accuracy and robustness, particularly in adverse conditions. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zebang Feng , Miao Fan , Bao Liu , Shengtong Xu , Haoyi Xiong

Accurate High-Definition (HD) map construction is critical for autonomous driving, yet existing methods face a fundamental trade-off: vectorization-based approaches preserve topology but struggle with geometric fidelity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhenxuan Zeng , Lingxuan Wang , Sheng Yang , Yanan He , Mingxia Chen , Wei Suo , Peng Wang

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

Minimising the discomfort caused by robots when navigating in social situations is crucial for them to be accepted. The paper presents a machine learning-based framework that bootstraps existing one-dimensional datasets to generate a cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Daniel Rodriguez-Criado , Pilar Bachiller , Luis J. Manso

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

For scalable autonomous driving, a robust map-based localization system, independent of GPS, is fundamental. To achieve such map-based localization, online high-definition (HD) map construction plays a significant role in accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Juyeb Shin , Hyeonjun Jeong , Francois Rameau , Dongsuk Kum

High-definition (HD) maps are essential in testing autonomous driving systems (ADSs). HD maps essentially determine the potential diversity of the testing scenarios. However, the current HD maps suffer from two main limitations: lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yun Tang , Yuan Zhou , Kairui Yang , Ziyuan Zhong , Baishakhi Ray , Yang Liu , Ping Zhang , Junbo Chen

In recent years, the rapid development of high-precision map technology combined with artificial intelligence has ushered in a new development opportunity in the field of intelligent vehicles. High-precision map technology is an important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yong Wang , Yanlin Zhou , Huan Ji , Zheng He , Xinyu Shen

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

Constructing online High-Definition (HD) maps is crucial for the static environment perception of autonomous driving systems (ADS). Existing solutions typically attempt to detect vectorized HD map elements with unified models; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Dapeng Zhang , Dayu Chen , Peng Zhi , Yinda Chen , Zhenlong Yuan , Chenyang Li , Sunjing , Rui Zhou , Qingguo Zhou

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

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