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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

Birds-eye-view (BEV) semantic segmentation is critical for autonomous driving for its powerful spatial representation ability. It is challenging to estimate the BEV semantic maps from monocular images due to the spatial gap, since it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shi Gong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Jingdong Wang , Errui Ding , Yu Zhou , Xiang Bai

Robust localization is the cornerstone of autonomous driving, especially in challenging urban environments where GPS signals suffer from multipath errors. Traditional localization approaches rely on high-definition (HD) maps, which consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hang Wu , Zhenghao Zhang , Siyuan Lin , Xiangru Mu , Qiang Zhao , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Online scene perception and topology reasoning are critical for autonomous vehicles to understand their driving environments, particularly for mapless driving systems that endeavor to reduce reliance on costly High-Definition (HD) maps.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Muleilan Pei , Jiayao Shan , Peiliang Li , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Shaojie Shen

High-Definition (HD) maps play a crucial role in autonomous vehicle navigation, complementing onboard perception sensors for improved accuracy and safety. Traditional HD map generation relies on dedicated mapping vehicles, which are costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Gamal Elghazaly , Raphael Frank

Effective use of camera-based vision systems is essential for robust performance in autonomous off-road driving, particularly in the high-speed regime. Despite success in structured, on-road settings, current end-to-end approaches for scene…

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

The ability to reliably perceive the environmental states, particularly the existence of objects and their motion behavior, is crucial for autonomous driving. In this work, we propose an efficient deep model, called MotionNet, to jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pengxiang Wu , Siheng Chen , Dimitris Metaxas

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

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

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

While bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception models can be useful for building high-definition maps (HD-Maps) with less human labor, their results are often unreliable and demonstrate noticeable inconsistencies in the predicted HD-Maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ziyang Xie , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representations derived from multi-camera input have become a central interface for online high-definition (HD) map construction. However, most approaches rely solely on ego-centric supervision, requiring large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniel Lengerer , Mathias Pechinger , Klaus Bogenberger , Carsten Markgraf

This paper exploits the intrinsic features of urban-scene images and proposes a general add-on module, called height-driven attention networks (HANet), for improving semantic segmentation for urban-scene images. It emphasizes informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sungha Choi , Joanne T. Kim , Jaegul Choo

We approach instantaneous mapping, converting images to a top-down view of the world, as a translation problem. We show how a novel form of transformer network can be used to map from images and video directly to an overhead map or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Avishkar Saha , Oscar Mendez Maldonado , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden

High Definition (HD) maps play an important role in modern traffic scenes. However, the development of HD maps coverage grows slowly because of the cost limitation. To efficiently model HD maps, we proposed a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Dun Liang , Yuanchen Guo , Shaokui Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang , Peter Hall , Min Zhang , Shimin Hu

Vision-based Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation is an emerging perception formulation for autonomous driving. The core challenge is to construct BEV space with multi-camera features, which is a one-to-many ill-posed problem. Diving into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yiming Wu , Ruixiang Li , Zequn Qin , Xinhai Zhao , Xi Li

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) Perception has received increasing attention in recent years as it provides a concise and unified spatial representation across views and benefits a diverse set of downstream driving applications. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alexander Swerdlow , Runsheng Xu , Bolei Zhou

Online High-Definition (HD) map construction is pivotal for autonomous driving. While recent approaches leverage historical temporal fusion to improve performance, we identify a critical safety flaw in this paradigm: it is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruikai Li , Xinrun Li , Mengwei Xie , Hao Shan , Shoumeng Qiu , Xinyuan Chang , Yizhe Fan , Feng Xiong , Han Jiang , Yilong Ren , Haiyang Yu , Mu Xu , Yang Long , Varun Ojha , Zhiyong Cui

Roadside camera-driven 3D object detection is a crucial task in intelligent transportation systems, which extends the perception range beyond the limitations of vision-centric vehicles and enhances road safety. While previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hao Shi , Chengshan Pang , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Yuhao Wu , Huajian Ni , Yining Lin , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Kaiwei Wang