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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

Accurate environmental representations are essential for autonomous driving, providing the foundation for safe and efficient navigation. Traditionally, high-definition (HD) maps are providing this representation of the static road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

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

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

In a world where autonomous driving cars are becoming increasingly more common, creating an adequate infrastructure for this new technology is essential. This includes building and labeling high-definition (HD) maps accurately and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Mahdi Elhousni , Yecheng Lyu , Ziming Zhang , Xinming Huang

High Definition (HD) maps are maps with precise definitions of road lanes with rich semantics of the traffic rules. They are critical for several key stages in an autonomous driving system, including motion forecasting and planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Lu Mi , Hang Zhao , Charlie Nash , Xiaohan Jin , Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid , Nir Shavit , Yuning Chai , Dragomir Anguelov

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

High-definition (HD) map is crucial for autonomous driving systems. Most existing works design map elements detection heads based on the DETR decoder. However, the initial queries lack explicit incorporation of physical positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Huiyuan Xiong , Jun Shen , Taohong Zhu , Yuelong Pan

Predicting High-definition (HD) map elements with high quality (high classification and localization scores) is crucial to the safety of autonomous driving vehicles. However, current methods perform poorly in high quality predictions due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jinpeng Dong , Chen Li , Yutong Lin , Jingwen Fu , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

In autonomous driving, High Definition (HD) maps provide a complete lane model that is not limited by sensor range and occlusions. However, the generation and upkeep of HD maps involves periodic data collection and human annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Michael Mink , Thomas Monninger , Steffen Staab

Accurate online map matching is fundamental to vehicle navigation and the activation of intelligent driving functions. Current online map matching methods are prone to errors in complex road networks, especially in multilevel road area. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xin Bi , Zhichao Li , Yuxuan Xia , Panpan Tong , Lijuan Zhang , Yang Chen , Junsheng Fu

Lane-level navigation is critical for geographic information systems and navigation-based tasks, offering finer-grained guidance than road-level navigation by standard definition (SD) maps. However, it currently relies on expansive global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jiaxu Wan , Xu Wang , Mengwei Xie , Xinyuan Chang , Xinran Liu , Zheng Pan , Mu Xu , Hong Zhang , Ding Yuan , Yifan Yang

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

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

High-definition (HD) maps are evolving from pre-annotated to real-time construction to better support autonomous driving in diverse scenarios. However, this process is hindered by low-quality input data caused by onboard sensors limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Bingyuan Huang , Guanyi Zhao , Qian Xu , Yang Lou , Yung-Hui Li , Jianping Wang

Currently, High-Definition (HD) maps are a prerequisite for the stable operation of autonomous vehicles. Such maps contain information about all static road objects for the vehicle to consider during navigation, such as road edges, road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mohamed Sayed , Stepan Perminov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial for autonomous vehicles, but their creation and maintenance is very costly. This motivates the idea of online HD map construction. To provide a continuous large-scale stream of training data, existing…

Autonomous driving requires understanding infrastructure elements, such as lanes and crosswalks. To navigate safely, this understanding must be derived from sensor data in real-time and needs to be represented in vectorized form. Learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Monninger , Md Zafar Anwar , Stanislaw Antol , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

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

Predicting and constructing road geometric information (e.g., lane lines, road markers) is a crucial task for safe autonomous driving, while such static map elements can be repeatedly occluded by various dynamic objects on the road. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nayeon Kim , Hongje Seong , Daehyun Ji , Sujin Jang