PseudoMapLabeler: Confidence-Aware Pseudo-Label Generation for Semi-Supervised Online Mapping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12600v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:18:09 GMT
• Title: PseudoMapLabeler: Confidence-Aware Pseudo-Label Generation for Semi-Supervised Online Mapping
• Abstract summary: A critical challenge in deploying online HD map construction systems to real-world scenarios is the scarcity of labeled training data.<n>We propose a teacher-student semi-supervised learning framework that generates high-quality pseudo-labels from unlabeled data.<n>Our framework improves performance by +6.1 mAP under a low-label regime compared to training on labeled data alone.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A critical challenge in deploying online HD map construction systems to real-world scenarios is the scarcity of labeled training data, which limits model generalization in diverse environments. To address this limitation, we propose a teacher-student semi-supervised learning (SSL) framework that generates high-quality pseudo-labels from unlabeled data through confidence-aware map refinement. Our approach first trains a teacher model on limited labeled data, then leverages Beta-distribution-based confidence maps to assess the reliability of predicted map elements across temporal observations. Unlike conventional filtering methods that discard entire elements, we introduce a spatial clipping technique that selectively preserves high-confidence regions while removing unreliable segments. The refined map elements serve as map priors that improve the teacher model's prediction accuracy on unlabeled data in a second pass. These enhanced predictions become pseudo-labels for training a student model from scratch, followed by fine-tuning on the original labeled data. Experimental results on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that our teacher-student framework with refined pseudo-labels improves performance by +6.1 mAP under a low-label regime compared to training on labeled data alone, offering a practical solution to the labeled data scarcity problem in online HD map construction.

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