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Autonomous driving requires 3D maps that provide accurate and up-to-date information about semantic landmarks. Due to the wider availability and lower cost of cameras compared with laser scanners, vision-based mapping solutions, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Clayton Souza Leite , Yu Xiao

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial to autonomous driving, providing structured representations of road elements to support navigation and planning. However, existing query-based methods often employ random query initialization and depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Bo Lang , Nirav Savaliya , Zhihao Zheng , Jinglun Feng , Zheng-Hang Yeh , Mooi Choo Chuah

High-definition (HD) semantic maps are crucial in enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate urban environments. The traditional method of creating offline HD maps involves labor-intensive manual annotation processes, which are not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuan Xiong , Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

As an essential component of autonomous driving systems, high-definition (HD) maps provide rich and precise environmental information for auto-driving scenarios; however, existing methods, which primarily rely on query-based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jing Yang , Sen Yang , Xiao Tan , Hanli Wang

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

The success of motion prediction for autonomous driving relies on integration of information from the HD maps. As maps are naturally graph-structured, investigation on graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding HD maps is burgeoning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Fang Da , Yu Zhang

Mobile mapping, in particular, Mobile Lidar Scanning (MLS) is increasingly widespread to monitor and map urban scenes at city scale with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. The resulting point cloud sampling of the scene geometry can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Teng Wu , Bruno Vallet , Cédric Demonceaux

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

Autonomous driving has traditionally relied heavily on costly and labor-intensive High Definition (HD) maps, hindering scalability. In contrast, Standard Definition (SD) maps are more affordable and have worldwide coverage, offering a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Katie Z Luo , Xinshuo Weng , Yan Wang , Shuang Wu , Jie Li , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yue Wang , Marco Pavone

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…

Autonomous vehicles are gradually entering city roads today, with the help of high-definition maps (HDMaps). However, the reliance on HDMaps prevents autonomous vehicles from stepping into regions without this expensive digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhou Jiang , Zhenxin Zhu , Pengfei Li , Huan-ang Gao , Tianyuan Yuan , Yongliang Shi , Hang Zhao , Hao Zhao

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

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

Using HD maps directly as training data for machine learning tasks has seen a massive surge in popularity and shown promising results, e.g. in the field of map perception. Despite that, a standardized HD map framework supporting all parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Fabian Immel , Richard Fehler , Frank Bieder , 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

Change detection in remote sensing imagery is essential for a variety of applications such as urban planning, disaster management, and climate research. However, existing methods for identifying semantically changed areas overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Maximilian Bernhard , Niklas Strauß , Matthias Schubert

Rapid evolution of territories due to climate change and human impact requires prompt and effective updates to geospatial databases maintained by the National Mapping Agency. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of change detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Nicolas Gonthier

In recent years, end-to-end autonomous driving has attracted increasing attention for its ability to jointly model perception, prediction, and planning within a unified framework. However, most existing approaches underutilize the online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Huilin Yin , Yiming Kan , Daniel Watzenig

Online vectorized High-Definition (HD) map construction is crucial for subsequent prediction and planning tasks in autonomous driving. Following MapTR paradigm, recent works have made noteworthy achievements. However, reference points are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Rongxuan Wang , Xin Lu , Xiaoyang Liu , Xiaoyi Zou , Tongyi Cao , Ying Li

For autonomous vehicles to operate persistently in a typical urban environment, it is essential to have high accuracy position information. This requires a mapping and localisation system that can adapt to changes over time. A localisation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Julie Stephany Berrio , Stewart Worrall , Mao Shan , Eduardo Nebot