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Vectorized high-definition (HD) maps are essential for an autonomous driving system. Recently, state-of-the-art map vectorization methods are mainly based on DETR-like framework to generate HD maps in an end-to-end manner. In this paper, we…

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In the field of autonomous driving, online high-definition (HD) map reconstruction is crucial for planning tasks. Recent research has developed several high-performance HD map reconstruction models to meet this necessity. However, the point…

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Vectorized high-definition map (HD-map) construction, which focuses on the perception of centimeter-level environmental information, has attracted significant research interest in the autonomous driving community. Most existing approaches…

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A prior global topological map (e.g., the OpenStreetMap, OSM) can boost the performance of autonomous mapping by a ground mobile robot. However, the prior map is usually incomplete due to lacking labeling in partial paths. To solve this…

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A large variety of geospatial data layers is available around the world ranging from remotely-sensed raster data like satellite imagery, digital elevation models, predicted land cover maps, and human-annotated data, to data derived from…

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Autonomous vehicles rely on HD maps for their operation, but offline HD maps eventually become outdated. For this reason, online HD map construction methods use live sensor data to infer map information instead. Research on real map changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Fabian Immel , Richard Fehler , Frank Bieder , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

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

Vectorized maps are indispensable for precise navigation and the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. Traditional methods for constructing these maps fall into two categories: offline techniques, which rely on expensive, labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Quanxin Zheng , Miao Fan , Shengtong Xu , Linghe Kong , Haoyi Xiong

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

To reduce the reliance on high-definition (HD) maps, a growing trend in autonomous driving is leveraging onboard sensors to generate vectorized maps online. However, current methods are mostly constrained by processing only single-frame…

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Most autonomous cars rely on the availability of high-definition (HD) maps. Current research aims to address this constraint by directly predicting HD map elements from onboard sensors and reasoning about the relationships between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Khanh Son Pham , Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Johannes Betz , Cyrill Stachniss

We propose a weakly supervised approach for creating maps using free-form textual descriptions. We refer to this work of creating textual maps as zero-shot mapping. Prior works have approached mapping tasks by developing models that predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Aayush Dhakal , Adeel Ahmad , Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Hannah Kerner , Nathan Jacobs

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

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

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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 important for autonomous driving, but their manual generation and maintenance is very expensive. This motivates the usage of an automated map generation pipeline. Fleet vehicles provide sufficient sensors for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Alexander Blumberg , Jonas Merkert , Christoph Stiller

High-definition (HD) map construction methods are crucial for providing precise and comprehensive static environmental information, which is essential for autonomous driving systems. While Camera-LiDAR fusion techniques have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiaoshuai Hao , Yuting Zhao , Yuheng Ji , Luanyuan Dai , Peng Hao , Dingzhe Li , Shuai Cheng , Rong Yin

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an important and challenging task in autonomous driving. Recently, there has been a growing interest in cost-effective multi-view camera-based methods without relying on other sensors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaoshuai Hao , Ruikai Li , Hui Zhang , Dingzhe Li , Rong Yin , Sangil Jung , Seung-In Park , ByungIn Yoo , Haimei Zhao , Jing Zhang

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

Online HD map construction is a fundamental task in autonomous driving systems, aiming to acquire semantic information of map elements around the ego vehicle based on real-time sensor inputs. Recently, several approaches have achieved…

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