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Off-road environments present unique challenges for autonomous navigation due to their complex and unstructured nature. Traditional global path-planning methods, which typically aim to minimize path length and travel time, perform poorly on…

Vectorized high-definition (HD) maps contain detailed information about surrounding road elements, which are crucial for various downstream tasks in modern autonomous vehicles, such as motion planning and vehicle control. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhenhua Xu , Kwan-Yee. K. Wong , Hengshuang Zhao

Marking-level high-definition maps (HD maps) are of great significance for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in large-scale, appearance-changing scenarios where AVs rely on markings for localization and lanes for safe driving. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hongji Liu , Linwei Zheng , Xiaoyang Yan , Zhenhua Xu , Bohuan Xue , Yang Yu , Ming Liu

High-definition maps (HD maps) play a crucial role in the development, safety validation, and operation of highly automated vehicles. Efficiently collecting up-to-date sensor data from road segments and obtaining accurate maps from these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Robert Krajewski , Huijo Kim

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial to autonomous driving, providing structured representations of road elements to support navigation and planning. However, existing query-based methods often employ random query initialization and depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Bo Lang , Nirav Savaliya , Zhihao Zheng , Jinglun Feng , Zheng-Hang Yeh , Mooi Choo Chuah

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

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiagang Chen , Liangliang Pan , Shunping Ji , Ji Zhao , Zichao Zhang

Topological maps are favorable for their small storage compared to geometric map. However, they are limited in relocalization and path planning capabilities. To solve this problem, a feature-based hierarchical topological map (FHT-Map) is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kun Song , Wenhang Liu , Gaoming Chen , Xiang Xu , Zhenhua Xiong

Constructing online High-Definition (HD) maps is crucial for the static environment perception of autonomous driving systems (ADS). Existing solutions typically attempt to detect vectorized HD map elements with unified models; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Dapeng Zhang , Dayu Chen , Peng Zhi , Yinda Chen , Zhenlong Yuan , Chenyang Li , Sunjing , Rui Zhou , Qingguo Zhou

Road surface reconstruction from aerial images is fundamental for autonomous driving, urban planning, and virtual simulation, where smoothness, compactness, and accuracy are critical quality factors. Existing reconstruction methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Oussema Dhaouadi , Johannes Meier , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Kuang Wu , Chuan Yang , Zhanbin Li

While High Definition (HD) Maps have long been favored for their precise depictions of static road elements, their accessibility constraints and susceptibility to rapid environmental changes impede the widespread deployment of autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jing-Yan Liao , Parth Doshi , Zihan Zhang , David Paz , Henrik Christensen

Building and maintaining High-Definition (HD) maps represents a large barrier to autonomous vehicle deployment. This, along with advances in modern online map detection models, has sparked renewed interest in the online mapping problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Samuel M. Bateman , Ning Xu , H. Charles Zhao , Yael Ben Shalom , Vince Gong , Greg Long , Will Maddern

This paper presents a new method, called FlexiCurve, for photo enhancement. Unlike most existing methods that perform image-to-image mapping, which requires expensive pixel-wise reconstruction, FlexiCurve takes an input image and estimates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Qiming Ai , Shangchen Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Maps are a key component in image-based camera localization and visual SLAM systems: they are used to establish geometric constraints between images, correct drift in relative pose estimation, and relocalize cameras after lost tracking. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , James Hays , Jan Kautz

Driving scene reconstruction and rendering have advanced significantly using the 3D Gaussian Splatting. However, most prior research has focused on the rendering quality along a pre-recorded vehicle path and struggles to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jingqiu Zhou , Lue Fan , Linjiang Huang , Xiaoyu Shi , Si Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Hongsheng Li

Large-scale map construction plays a vital role in applications like autonomous driving and navigation systems. Traditional large-scale map construction approaches mainly rely on costly and inefficient special data collection vehicles and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yujian Yuan , Changjie Wu , Xinyuan Chang , Sijin Wang , Hang Zhang , Shiyi Liang , Shuang Zeng , Mu Xu , Ning Guo

High-definition (HD) maps are essential for autonomous driving, as they provide precise road information for downstream tasks. Recent advances highlight the potential of temporal modeling in addressing challenges like occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ruizi Yang , Xiaolu Liu , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

High-definition (HD) maps offer extensive and accurate environmental information about the driving scene, making them a crucial and essential element for planning within autonomous driving systems. To avoid extensive efforts from manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Michael Hubbertz , Pascal Colling , Qi Han , Tobias Meisen