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Recent advances in autonomous driving systems have shifted towards reducing reliance on high-definition maps (HDMaps) due to the huge costs of annotation and maintenance. Instead, researchers are focusing on online vectorized HDMap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Sen Yang , Minyue Jiang , Ziwei Fan , Xiaolu Xie , Xiao Tan , Yingying Li , Errui Ding , Liang Wang , Jingdong Wang

In this paper we show that High-Definition (HD) maps provide strong priors that can boost the performance and robustness of modern 3D object detectors. Towards this goal, we design a single stage detector that extracts geometric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Bin Yang , Ming Liang , Raquel Urtasun

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

The prediction of surrounding agents' motion is a key for safe autonomous driving. In this paper, we explore navigation maps as an alternative to the predominant High Definition (HD) maps for learning-based motion prediction. Navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Julian Schmidt , Julian Jordan , Franz Gritschneder , Thomas Monninger , Klaus Dietmayer

Constructing precise 3D maps is crucial for the development of future map-based systems such as self-driving and navigation. However, generating these maps in complex environments, such as multi-level parking garages or shopping malls,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xinran Zhang , Hanqi Zhu , Yifan Duan , Wuyang Zhang , Longfei Shangguan , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

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

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

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

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…

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

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) need an accurate and up-to-date representation of the environment for safe navigation. Traditional methods, which often rely on detailed environmental representations constructed offline, struggle in dynamically…

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

Lane topology reasoning techniques play a crucial role in high-definition (HD) mapping and autonomous driving applications. While recent years have witnessed significant advances in this field, there has been limited effort to consolidate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yi Yao , Miao Fan , Shengtong Xu , Haoyi Xiong , Xiangzeng Liu , Wenbo Hu , Wenbing Huang

High-definition (Hi-Def) digital maps are an indispensable automated driving technology that is developing rapidly. There are various commercial or governmental map products in the market. It is notable that the U.S. Department of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Wang Hu , David Oswald , Guoyuan Wu , Jay A. Farrell

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

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 play a crucial role in autonomous driving systems. Recent methods have attempted to construct HD maps in real-time using vehicle onboard sensors. Due to the inherent limitations of onboard sensors, which include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Wenjie Gao , Jiawei Fu , Yanqing Shen , Haodong Jing , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

This research addresses the need for high-definition (HD) maps for autonomous vehicles (AVs), focusing on road lane information derived from aerial imagery. While Earth observation data offers valuable resources for map creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Willow Liu , Shuxin Qiao , Kyle Gao , Hongjie He , Michael A. Chapman , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

Connected vehicle and driver's assistance applications are greatly facilitated by Enhanced Digital Maps (EDMs) that represent roadway features (e.g., lane edges or centerlines, stop bars). Due to the large number of signalized intersections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Mohammad Billah , Farzana Rahman , Arash Maskooki , Michael Todd , Matthew Barth , Jay A. Farrell

With the fast development of autonomous driving technologies, there is an increasing demand for high-definition (HD) maps, which provide reliable and robust prior information about the static part of the traffic environments. As one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang