Radar-based Pose Optimization for HD Map Generation from Noisy Multi-Drive Vehicle Fleet Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03453v1
• Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:09:42 GMT
• Title: Radar-based Pose Optimization for HD Map Generation from Noisy Multi-Drive Vehicle Fleet Data
• Abstract summary: This work focuses on mitigating the localization noise component through aligning radar measurements in terms of raw radar point clouds of vehicle poses.<n>We show contrast-rich feature clarity, focusing on omnipresent guardrail posts as the main feature type observable in the map.<n>Second, the improved poses can be used as a basis for an existing lane boundary map generation pipeline, majorly improving map output compared to its original pure line detection based optimization approach.
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• Abstract: 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 map generation, but their measurements are less precise, introducing noise into the mapping pipeline. This work focuses on mitigating the localization noise component through aligning radar measurements in terms of raw radar point clouds of vehicle poses of different drives and performing pose graph optimization to produce a globally optimized solution between all drives present in the dataset. Improved poses are first used to generate a global radar occupancy map, aimed to facilitate precise on-vehicle localization. Through qualitative analysis we show contrast-rich feature clarity, focusing on omnipresent guardrail posts as the main feature type observable in the map. Second, the improved poses can be used as a basis for an existing lane boundary map generation pipeline, majorly improving map output compared to its original pure line detection based optimization approach.

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