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Maps provide robots with crucial environmental knowledge, thereby enabling them to perform interactive tasks effectively. Easily accessing accurate abstract-to-detailed geometric and semantic concepts from maps is crucial for robots to make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Tianshuai Hu , Jianhao Jiao , Yucheng Xu , Hongji Liu , Sheng Wang , Ming Liu

Autonomous vehicles rely on map information to understand the world around them. However, the creation and maintenance of offline high-definition (HD) maps remains costly. A more scalable alternative lies in online HD map construction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jonas Merkert , Alexander Blumberg , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

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

Research on localization and perception for Autonomous Driving is mainly focused on camera and LiDAR datasets, rarely on radar data. Manually labeling sparse radar point clouds is challenging. For a dataset generation, we propose the cross…

Map-based methods for autonomous racing estimate the vehicle's location, which is used to follow a high-level plan. While map-based optimisation methods demonstrate high-performance results, they are limited by requiring a map of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Benjamin David Evans , Hendrik Willem Jordaan , Herman Arnold Engelbrecht

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as promising tools for advancing autonomous driving (AD) research, offering scalable closed-loop simulation and data augmentation capabilities. However, to trust the results achieved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Carl Lindström , Georg Hess , Adam Lilja , Maryam Fatemi , Lars Hammarstrand , Christoffer Petersson , Lennart Svensson

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation learns a model for classifying pixels into specific classes using a few labeled samples and numerous unlabeled images. The recent leading approach is consistency regularization by selftraining with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jingi Ju , Hyeoncheol Noh , Yooseung Wang , Minseok Seo , Dong-Geol Choi

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

For scalable autonomous driving, a robust map-based localization system, independent of GPS, is fundamental. To achieve such map-based localization, online high-definition (HD) map construction plays a significant role in accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Juyeb Shin , Hyeonjun Jeong , Francois Rameau , Dongsuk Kum

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 simulation system plays a crucial role in enhancing self-driving data and simulating complex and rare traffic scenarios, ensuring navigation safety. However, traditional simulation systems, which often heavily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yurui Chen , Junge Zhang , Ziyang Xie , Wenye Li , Feihu Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Li Zhang

In this paper, we introduce Hi-Map, a novel monocular dense mapping approach based on Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). Hi-Map is exceptional in its capacity to achieve efficient and high-fidelity mapping using only posed RGB inputs. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tongyan Hua , Haotian Bai , Zidong Cao , Ming Liu , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang

The amount of manually labeled data is limited in medical applications, so semi-supervised learning and automatic labeling strategies can be an asset for training deep neural networks. However, the quality of the automatically generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Wenhui Cui , Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

High-definition (HD) maps have played an integral role in the development of modern autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks, albeit with high associated labeling and maintenance costs. As a result, many recent works have proposed methods for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xunjiang Gu , Guanyu Song , Igor Gilitschenski , Marco Pavone , Boris Ivanovic

Autonomous driving for urban and highway driving applications often requires High Definition (HD) maps to generate a navigation plan. Nevertheless, various challenges arise when generating and maintaining HD maps at scale. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hengyuan Zhang , David Paz , Yuliang Guo , Arun Das , Xinyu Huang , Karsten Haug , Henrik I. Christensen , Liu Ren

State-of-the-art autonomous driving systems rely on high definition (HD) maps for localization and navigation. However, building and maintaining HD maps is time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, the HD maps assume structured environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Dawei Zhao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

High-resolution (HR) land-cover mapping is often constrained by the high cost of dense HR annotations. We revisit this problem from the perspective of map super-resolution, which enhances coarse low-resolution (LR) land-cover products into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ruiqi Wang , Qi Yu , Jie Ma , Hanlin Wu

Discriminating the traversability of terrains is a crucial task for autonomous driving in off-road environments. However, it is challenging due to the diverse, ambiguous, and platform-specific nature of off-road traversability. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Hanzhang Xue , Xiaochang Hu , Rui Xie , Hao Fu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Semi-supervised learning has received considerable attention for its potential to leverage abundant unlabeled data to enhance model robustness. Pseudo labeling is a widely used strategy in semi supervised learning. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbin Chen , Yuanbo Zhou , Longxuan Zhao , Tao Tan , Tong Tong

Large-scale semantic mapping is crucial for outdoor autonomous agents to fulfill high-level tasks such as planning and navigation. This paper proposes a novel method for large-scale 3D semantic reconstruction through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianyuan Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Meng Zhang