CityGen: Structure-Guided City-Style Synthesis for Cross-City Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29935v1
• Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 13:46:48 GMT
• Title: CityGen: Structure-Guided City-Style Synthesis for Cross-City Autonomous Driving
• Abstract summary: CityTransfer-Bench is a benchmark for evaluating cross-city generalization across perception, segmentation, and planning.<n>CityGen is a diffusion-based generative framework that performs zero-label city adaptation via HD-map-conditioned synthesis guided by city-level visual prompts.
• Score: 5.149645190293104
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Autonomous driving systems are commonly trained and evaluated within limited geographic regions, which hinders their scalability when deployed in new cities. However, significant domain shifts in appearance, road topology, and traffic patterns often cause severe performance degradation under cross-city deployment. Existing approaches based on domain adaptation, data augmentation, or synthetic data generation typically rely on labeled target data, city-specific annotations, or task-specific designs, limiting their scalability and effectiveness for holistic evaluation. In this paper, we introduce CityTransfer-Bench, a geographically disjoint benchmark for evaluating cross-city generalization across perception, segmentation, and planning, and propose CityGen, a diffusion-based generative framework that performs zero-label city adaptation via HD-map-conditioned synthesis guided by city-level visual prompts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CityGen consistently improves cross-city robustness across multiple tasks, establishing a scalable and label-efficient foundation for generalizable autonomous driving.

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