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Analysis of high-resolution satellite images has been an important research topic for traffic management, city planning, and road monitoring. One of the problems here is automatic and precise road extraction. From an original image, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Alexander V. Buslaev , Selim S. Seferbekov , Vladimir I. Iglovikov , Alexey A. Shvets

In this paper, we propose OpenSatMap, a fine-grained, high-resolution satellite dataset for large-scale map construction. Map construction is one of the foundations of the transportation industry, such as navigation and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hongbo Zhao , Lue Fan , Yuntao Chen , Haochen Wang , yuran Yang , Xiaojuan Jin , Yixin Zhang , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made significant advances in detecting roads from satellite images. However, existing CNN approaches are generally repurposed semantic segmentation architectures and suffer from the poor delineation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tinghuai Wang , Guangming Wang , Kuan Eeik Tan

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

The road network graph is a critical component for downstream tasks in autonomous driving, such as global route planning and navigation. In the past years, road network graphs are usually annotated by human experts manually, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

Road extraction is an essential step in building autonomous navigation systems. Detecting road segments is challenging as they are of varying widths, bifurcated throughout the image, and are often occluded by terrain, cloud, or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Remote sensing is extensively used in cartography. As transportation networks grow and change, extracting roads automatically from satellite images is crucial to keep maps up-to-date. Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites can provide high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Corentin Henry , Seyed Majid Azimi , Nina Merkle

Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes H. Uhl , Stefan Leyk , Yao-Yi Chiang , Craig A. Knoblock

Road Extraction is a sub-domain of Remote Sensing applications; it is a subject of extensive and ongoing research. The procedure of automatically extracting roads from satellite imagery encounters significant challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Arpan Mahara , Md Rezaul Karim Khan , Naphtali D. Rishe , Wenjia Wang , Seyed Masoud Sadjadi

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to resolve societal challenges, such as eradicating poverty and improving the lives of vulnerable populations in impoverished areas. Those areas rely on road infrastructure construction to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yanxin Xi , Yu Liu , Zhicheng Liu , Sasu Tarkoma , Pan Hui , Yong Li

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a semi-supervised segmentation method for extracting roads from sattelite images. Artificial Neural Networks and image segmentation methods are among the most successful methods for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Metehan Yalçın , Furkan Burak Bağcı , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

Accurately predicting road networks from satellite images requires a global understanding of the network topology. We propose to capture such high-level information by introducing a graph-based framework that simulates the addition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

The accurate and automatic extraction of roads from satellite imagery is critical for applications in navigation and urban planning, significantly reducing the need for manual annotation. Many existing methods decompose this task into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhengyang Wei , Renzhi Jing , Yiyi He , Jenny Suckale

Road extraction in remote sensing images is of great importance for a wide range of applications. Because of the complex background, and high density, most of the existing methods fail to accurately extract a road network that appears…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , Jie Yang

Autonomous driving car is becoming more of a reality, as a key component,high-definition(HD) maps shows its value in both market place and industry. Even though HD maps generation from LiDAR or stereo/perspective imagery has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Andi Zang , Runsheng Xu , Zichen Li , David Doria

The research community has increasing interest in autonomous driving research, despite the resource intensity of obtaining representative real world data. Existing self-driving datasets are limited in the scale and variation of the…

Deep generative models for graphs have shown great promise in the area of drug design, but have so far found little application beyond generating graph-structured molecules. In this work, we demonstrate a proof of concept for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Davide Belli , Thomas Kipf

The automated extraction of complete and precise road network graphs from remote sensing imagery remains a critical challenge in geospatial computer vision. Segmentation-based approaches, while effective in pixel-level recognition, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dengxian Gong , Shunping Ji

Deep learning is revolutionizing the mapping industry. Under lightweight human curation, computer has generated almost half of the roads in Thailand on OpenStreetMap (OSM) using high-resolution aerial imagery. Bing maps are displaying 125…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Tao Sun , Zonglin Di , Pengyu Che , Chun Liu , Yin Wang

The majority of current approaches in autonomous driving rely on High-Definition (HD) maps which detail the road geometry and surrounding area. Yet, this reliance is one of the obstacles to mass deployment of autonomous vehicles due to poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Li Zhang , Faezeh Tafazzoli , Gunther Krehl , Runsheng Xu , Timo Rehfeld , Manuel Schier , Arunava Seal