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Today's autonomous vehicles rely extensively on high-definition 3D maps to navigate the environment. While this approach works well when these maps are completely up-to-date, safe autonomous vehicles must be able to corroborate the map's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ari Seff , Jianxiong Xiao

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

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

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

Deep learning provides a powerful new approach to many computer vision tasks. Height prediction from aerial images is one of those tasks that benefited greatly from the deployment of deep learning which replaced old multi-view geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Elhousni Mahdi , Zhang Ziming , Huang Xinming

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

Along with the rapid growth of autonomous vehicles (AVs), more and more demands are required for environment perception technology. Among others, HD mapping has become one of the more prominent roles in helping the vehicle realize essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Benny Wijaya , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Tuopu Wen , Yunlong Wang , Xuewei Tang , Zheng Fu , Taohua Zhou , Diange Yang

Deep neural networks for aerial image segmentation require large amounts of labeled data, but high-quality aerial datasets with precise annotations are scarce and costly to produce. To address this limitation, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rupert Polley , Sai Vignesh Abishek Deenadayalan , J. Marius Zöllner

Autonomous driving systems benefit from high-definition (HD) maps that provide critical information about road infrastructure. The online construction of HD maps offers a scalable approach to generate local maps from on-board sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongyu Lyu , Thomas Monninger , Julie Stephany Berrio Perez , Mao Shan , Zhenxing Ming , Stewart Worrall

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for aerial mapping and general monitoring tasks. Recent progress in deep learning enabled automated semantic segmentation of imagery to facilitate the interpretation of large-scale complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Julius Rückin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Detecting vehicles in aerial imagery is a critical task with applications in traffic monitoring, urban planning, and defense intelligence. Deep learning methods have provided state-of-the-art (SOTA) results for this application. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiao Fang , Minhyek Jeon , Zheyang Qin , Stanislav Panev , Celso de Melo , Shuowen Hu , Shayok Chakraborty , Fernando De la Torre

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

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

High-definition road maps play a crucial role in the functionality and verification of highly automated driving functions. These contain precise information about the road network, geometry, condition, as well as traffic signs. Despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Leon Eisemann , Johannes Maucher

An accurate depth map of the environment is critical to the safe operation of autonomous robots and vehicles. Currently, either light detection and ranging (LIDAR) or stereo matching algorithms are used to acquire such depth information.…

Existing lane-level simulation road network generation is labor-intensive, resource-demanding, and costly due to the need for large-scale data collection and manual post-editing. To overcome these limitations, we propose automatically…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liang Xie , Wenke Huang

This paper describes a methodology to produce a 7-classes land cover map of urban areas from very high resolution images and limited noisy labeled data. The objective is to make a segmentation map of a large area (a french department) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Thomas Tilak , Arnaud Braun , David Chandler , Nicolas David , Sylvain Galopin , Amélie Lombard , Michaël Michaud , Camille Parisel , Matthieu Porte , Marjorie Robert

Historical maps are invaluable for analyzing long-term changes in transportation and spatial development, offering a rich source of data for evolutionary studies. However, digitizing and classifying road networks from these maps is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Dominik J. Mühlematter , Sebastian Schweizer , Chenjing Jiao , Xue Xia , Magnus Heitzler , Lorenz Hurni

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