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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

Lane detection is a vital task for vehicles to navigate and localize their position on the road. To ensure reliable driving, lane detection models must have robust generalization performance in various road environments. However, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Daeun Lee , Minhyeok Heo , Jiwon Kim

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

We introduce a network that directly predicts the 3D layout of lanes in a road scene from a single image. This work marks a first attempt to address this task with on-board sensing without assuming a known constant lane width or relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Noa Garnett , Rafi Cohen , Tomer Pe'er , Roee Lahav , Dan Levi

High-definition (HD) maps, particularly those containing lane-level information regarded as ground truth, are crucial for vehicle localization research. Traditionally, constructing HD maps requires highly accurate sensor measurements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Younghun Cho , Jee-Hwan Ryu

To handle the two shortcomings of existing methods, (i)nearly all models rely on high-definition (HD) maps, yet the map information is not always available in real traffic scenes and HD map-building is expensive and time-consuming and (ii)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Junhong Xiang , Jingmin Zhang , Zhixiong Nan

As the demand for enabling high-level autonomous driving has increased in recent years and visual perception is one of the critical features to enable fully autonomous driving, in this paper, we introduce an efficient approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Liangfu Chen , Zeng Yang , Jianjun Ma , Zheng Luo

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

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

High-definition (HD) mapping tasks, which perform lane detections and predictions, are extremely challenging due to non-ideal conditions such as view occlusions, distant lane visibility, and adverse weather conditions. Those conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingyang Li , Brian Lee , Rui Zuo , Brent Bacchus , Priyantha Mudalige , Qinru Qiu

Crowdsourcing enables scalable autonomous driving map construction, but low-cost sensor noise hinders quality from improving with data volume. We propose CSMapping, a system that produces accurate semantic maps and topological road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhijian Qiao , Zehuan Yu , Tong Li , Chih-Chung Chou , Wenchao Ding , Shaojie Shen

Topology reasoning is crucial for autonomous driving as it enables comprehensive understanding of connectivity and relationships between lanes and traffic elements. While recent approaches have shown success in perceiving driving topology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Junjie Ye , David Paz , Hengyuan Zhang , Yuliang Guo , Xinyu Huang , Henrik I. Christensen , Yue Wang , Liu Ren

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

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

Local map construction is a vital component of intelligent driving perception, offering necessary reference for vehicle positioning and planning. Standard Definition map (SDMap), known for its low cost, accessibility, and versatility, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiaqi Li , Pingfan Jia , Jiaxing Chen , Jiaxi Liu , Lei He , Keqiang Li

Autonomous vehicles need to perceive not only physical elements in the driving scene, such as lane lines and traffic lights, but also logical elements like lane centerlines and their topology. Existing lane topology reasoning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Han Li , Yulu Gao , Si Liu , Yuhang Wang , Bo Liu , Beipeng Mu

Scene information plays a crucial role in trajectory forecasting systems for autonomous driving by providing semantic clues and constraints on potential future paths of traffic agents. Prevalent trajectory prediction techniques often take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yuning Wang , Pu Zhang , Lei Bai , Jianru Xue

High-definition map with accurate lane-level information is crucial for autonomous driving, but the creation of these maps is a resource-intensive process. To this end, we present a cost-effective solution to create lane-level roadmaps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yuxuan Xia , Erik Stenborg , Junsheng Fu , Gustaf Hendeby

Understanding the traffic scenes and then generating high-definition (HD) maps present significant challenges in autonomous driving. In this paper, we defined a novel Traffic Topology Scene Graph, a unified scene graph explicitly modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Changsheng Lv , Mengshi Qi , Liang Liu , Huadong Ma

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