Inferring Driving Maps by Deep Learning-based Trail Map Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10258v1
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 13:09:19 GMT
• Title: Inferring Driving Maps by Deep Learning-based Trail Map Extraction
• Authors: Michael Hubbertz, Pascal Colling, Qi Han, Tobias Meisen,
• Abstract summary: High-definition (HD) maps offer extensive and accurate environmental information about the driving scene.<n>Recent trends have moved from offline mapping to online mapping, ensuring availability and actuality of the utilized maps.<n>We propose a novel offline mapping approach that integrates trails - informal routes used by drivers - into the map creation process.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 labeling, methods for automating the map creation have emerged. Recent trends have moved from offline mapping to online mapping, ensuring availability and actuality of the utilized maps. While the performance has increased in recent years, online mapping still faces challenges regarding temporal consistency, sensor occlusion, runtime, and generalization. We propose a novel offline mapping approach that integrates trails - informal routes used by drivers - into the map creation process. Our method aggregates trail data from the ego vehicle and other traffic participants to construct a comprehensive global map using transformer-based deep learning models. Unlike traditional offline mapping, our approach enables continuous updates while remaining sensor-agnostic, facilitating efficient data transfer. Our method demonstrates superior performance compared to state-of-the-art online mapping approaches, achieving improved generalization to previously unseen environments and sensor configurations. We validate our approach on two benchmark datasets, highlighting its robustness and applicability in autonomous driving systems.

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