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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 provide essential semantic information of road structures for autonomous driving systems, yet current HD map construction methods require calibrated multi-camera setups and either implicit or explicit 2D-to-BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Run Wang , Chaoyi Zhou , Amir Salarpour , Xi Liu , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Feng Luo , Mert D. Pesé , Siyu Huang

Most automated driving systems comprise a diverse sensor set, including several cameras, Radars, and LiDARs, ensuring a complete 360\deg coverage in near and far regions. Unlike Radar and LiDAR, which measure directly in 3D, cameras capture…

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

In this article we describe an algorithm that can be applied for the generation of various classes of maps on orientable surfaces. It uses existing generators for abstract graphs and combines them with an efficient embedding and isomorphism…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Gunnar Brinkmann

Autonomous vehicles rely on precise high definition (HD) 3d maps for navigation. This paper presents the mapping component of an end-to-end system for crowdsourcing precise 3d maps with semantically meaningful landmarks such as traffic…

HD map reconstruction is crucial for autonomous driving. LiDAR-based methods are limited due to expensive sensors and time-consuming computation. Camera-based methods usually need to perform road segmentation and view transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Wenxi Liu , Qi Li , Weixiang Yang , Jiaxin Cai , Yuanlong Yu , Yuexin Ma , Shengfeng He , Jia Pan

Map construction task plays a vital role in providing precise and comprehensive static environmental information essential for autonomous driving systems. Primary sensors include cameras and LiDAR, with configurations varying between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xiaoshuai Hao , Yunfeng Diao , Mengchuan Wei , Yifan Yang , Peng Hao , Rong Yin , Hui Zhang , Weiming Li , Shu Zhao , Yu Liu

This paper proposes online sampling in the parameter space of a neural network for GPU-accelerated motion planning of autonomous vehicles. Neural networks are used as controller parametrization since they can handle nonlinear non-convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Mogens Graf Plessen

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

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

Many safety-critical applications, especially in autonomous driving, require reliable object detectors. They can be very effectively assisted by a method to search for and identify potential failures and systematic errors before these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Valentyn Boreiko , Matthias Hein , Jan Hendrik Metzen

In autonomous driving, trajectory prediction is essential for safe and efficient navigation. While recent methods often rely on high-definition (HD) maps to provide structured environmental priors, such maps are costly to maintain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Minsang Kong , Myeongjun Kim , Sang Gu Kang , Hejiu Lu , Yupeng Zhong , Sang Hun Lee

The training of autonomous agents often requires expensive and unsafe trial-and-error interactions with the environment. Nowadays several data sets containing recorded experiences of intelligent agents performing various tasks, spanning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Giorgio Angelotti , Nicolas Drougard , Caroline Ponzoni Carvalho Chanel

Achieving reliable and safe autonomous driving in off-road environments requires accurate and efficient terrain traversability analysis. However, this task faces several challenges, including the scarcity of large-scale datasets tailored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yafeng Bu , Zhenping Sun , Xiaohui Li , Jun Zeng , Xin Zhang , Hui Shen

Track Mapless demands models to process multi-view images and Standard-Definition (SD) maps, outputting lane and traffic element perceptions along with their topological relationships. We propose a novel architecture that integrates SD map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yishen Ji , Zhiqi Li , Tong Lu

In this paper, we present a fast, on-line mapping and planning solution for operation in unknown, off-road, environments. We combine obstacle detection along with a terrain gradient map to make simple and adaptable cost map. This map can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Timothy Overbye , Srikanth Saripalli

Occupancy grid maps (OGMs) are fundamental to most systems for autonomous robotic navigation. However, CPU-based implementations struggle to keep up with data rates from modern 3D lidar sensors, and provide little capacity for modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Kazys Stepanas , Jason Williams , Emili Hernández , Fabio Ruetz , Thomas Hines

Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are a classical method for unsupervised learning, vector quantization, and topographic mapping of high-dimensional data. However, existing SOM formulations often involve a trade-off between computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Seiki Ubukata , Akira Notsu , Katsuhiro Honda

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