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Autonomous driving has been among the most popular and challenging topics in the past few years. On the road to achieving full autonomy, researchers have utilized various sensors, such as LiDAR, camera, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Zhibin Bao , Sabir Hossain , Haoxiang Lang , Xianke Lin

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

To operate in an urban environment, an automated vehicle must be capable of accurately estimating its position within a global map reference frame. This is necessary for optimal path planning and safe navigation. To accomplish this over an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Julie Stephany Berrio , James Ward , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

Autonomous driving for urban and highway driving applications often requires High Definition (HD) maps to generate a navigation plan. Nevertheless, various challenges arise when generating and maintaining HD maps at scale. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hengyuan Zhang , David Paz , Yuliang Guo , Arun Das , Xinyu Huang , Karsten Haug , Henrik I. Christensen , Liu Ren

Recent advances in high-definition (HD) map construction from surround-view images have highlighted their cost-effectiveness in deployment. However, prevailing techniques often fall short in accurately extracting and utilizing road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenzhao Qiu , Shanmin Pang , Hao zhang , Jianwu Fang , Jianru Xue

High Definition (HD) maps are maps with precise definitions of road lanes with rich semantics of the traffic rules. They are critical for several key stages in an autonomous driving system, including motion forecasting and planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Lu Mi , Hang Zhao , Charlie Nash , Xiaohan Jin , Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid , Nir Shavit , Yuning Chai , Dragomir Anguelov

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

Predicting and constructing road geometric information (e.g., lane lines, road markers) is a crucial task for safe autonomous driving, while such static map elements can be repeatedly occluded by various dynamic objects on the road. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nayeon Kim , Hongje Seong , Daehyun Ji , Sujin Jang

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

Motion prediction systems aim to capture the future behavior of traffic scenarios enabling autonomous vehicles to perform safe and efficient planning. The evolution of these scenarios is highly uncertain and depends on the interactions of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Sandra Carrasco Limeros , Sylwia Majchrowska , Joakim Johnander , Christoffer Petersson , David Fernández Llorca

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is crucial for scaling autonomous driving systems. While Transformer-based methods have become prevalent in online HD map construction, most existing approaches overlook the inherent spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tianhui Cai , Yun Zhang , Zewei Zhou , Zhiyu Huang , Jiaqi Ma

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

High-Definition (HD) maps can provide precise geometric and semantic information of static traffic environments for autonomous driving. Road-boundary is one of the most important information contained in HD maps since it distinguishes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Lu Gan , Xiangcheng Hu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

Driving systems often rely on high-definition (HD) maps for precise environmental information, which is crucial for planning and navigation. While current HD map constructors perform well under ideal conditions, their resilience to…

Autonomous driving perceives surroundings with line-of-sight sensors that are compromised under environmental uncertainties. To achieve real time global information in high definition map, we investigate to share perception information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

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

Maintaining accurate, up-to-date maps is important in any dynamic urban landscape, supporting various aspects of modern society, such as urban planning, navigation, and emergency response. However, traditional (i.e. largely manual) map…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lasith Niroshan , James D. Carswell

Currently, high-definition (HD) map construction leans towards a lightweight online generation tendency, which aims to preserve timely and reliable road scene information. However, map elements contain strong shape priors. Subtle and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaolu Liu , Song Wang , Wentong Li , Ruizi Yang , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

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

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