HGeo-TopoMap: Boosting Topological Mapping with Hierarchical Geometric Priors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21281v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:02:18 GMT
• Title: HGeo-TopoMap: Boosting Topological Mapping with Hierarchical Geometric Priors
• Abstract summary: Topological maps are key outputs of autonomous driving perception systems, delivering essential road information for path planning.<n>Due to the lack of explicit markings for centerlines in real-world environments, the detection of centerline instances remains a significant challenge.<n>We propose HGeo-TopoMap, which leverages an explicit prior map and implicit spatial relations to hierarchically boost topological mapping.
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• Abstract: Topological maps are key outputs of autonomous driving perception systems, delivering essential road information for path planning. They identify instances such as centerlines and traffic signs, along with their connectivity relationships. Due to the lack of explicit markings for centerlines in real-world environments, the detection of centerline instances remains a significant challenge. To tackle this problem, we propose HGeo-TopoMap, which leverages an explicit prior map and implicit spatial relations to hierarchically boost topological mapping. First, a geometric adaptive learning module is designed for the road structure map obtained via inverse perspective mapping. This module discretely encodes semantic and spatial features from the map, followed by a prior-mask attention mechanism that selectively focuses on informative regions. Then, a geometric consistency learning module is devised, which leverages the geometric properties and spatial relationships of centerlines. Built on the geometry-aware decoder, it enforces spatial consistency by aligning features of centerline instances with identical geometric orientations. The proposed method is evaluated on the OpenLane-V2 dataset across the centerline, lane segment, and robustness benchmarks. Beyond substantial improvements in topological mapping accuracy, the proposed method offers the benefit of enhanced robustness, consistently outperforming baselines under both standard and challenging conditions. The source code and model weights will be made publicly available at https://github.com/lynn-yu/HGeo-TopoMap.

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