Complementing Onboard Sensors with Satellite Map: A New Perspective for HD Map Construction

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Hauptverfasser: Gao, Wenjie, Fu, Jiawei, Shen, Yanqing, Jing, Haodong, Chen, Shitao, Zheng, Nanning
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author Gao, Wenjie
Fu, Jiawei
Shen, Yanqing
Jing, Haodong
Chen, Shitao
Zheng, Nanning
author_facet Gao, Wenjie
Fu, Jiawei
Shen, Yanqing
Jing, Haodong
Chen, Shitao
Zheng, Nanning
contents High-definition (HD) maps play a crucial role in autonomous driving systems. Recent methods have attempted to construct HD maps in real-time using vehicle onboard sensors. Due to the inherent limitations of onboard sensors, which include sensitivity to detection range and susceptibility to occlusion by nearby vehicles, the performance of these methods significantly declines in complex scenarios and long-range detection tasks. In this paper, we explore a new perspective that boosts HD map construction through the use of satellite maps to complement onboard sensors. We initially generate the satellite map tiles for each sample in nuScenes and release a complementary dataset for further research. To enable better integration of satellite maps with existing methods, we propose a hierarchical fusion module, which includes feature-level fusion and BEV-level fusion. The feature-level fusion, composed of a mask generator and a masked cross-attention mechanism, is used to refine the features from onboard sensors. The BEV-level fusion mitigates the coordinate differences between features obtained from onboard sensors and satellite maps through an alignment module. The experimental results on the augmented nuScenes showcase the seamless integration of our module into three existing HD map construction methods. The satellite maps and our proposed module notably enhance their performance in both HD map semantic segmentation and instance detection tasks.
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spellingShingle Complementing Onboard Sensors with Satellite Map: A New Perspective for HD Map Construction
Gao, Wenjie
Fu, Jiawei
Shen, Yanqing
Jing, Haodong
Chen, Shitao
Zheng, Nanning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
High-definition (HD) maps play a crucial role in autonomous driving systems. Recent methods have attempted to construct HD maps in real-time using vehicle onboard sensors. Due to the inherent limitations of onboard sensors, which include sensitivity to detection range and susceptibility to occlusion by nearby vehicles, the performance of these methods significantly declines in complex scenarios and long-range detection tasks. In this paper, we explore a new perspective that boosts HD map construction through the use of satellite maps to complement onboard sensors. We initially generate the satellite map tiles for each sample in nuScenes and release a complementary dataset for further research. To enable better integration of satellite maps with existing methods, we propose a hierarchical fusion module, which includes feature-level fusion and BEV-level fusion. The feature-level fusion, composed of a mask generator and a masked cross-attention mechanism, is used to refine the features from onboard sensors. The BEV-level fusion mitigates the coordinate differences between features obtained from onboard sensors and satellite maps through an alignment module. The experimental results on the augmented nuScenes showcase the seamless integration of our module into three existing HD map construction methods. The satellite maps and our proposed module notably enhance their performance in both HD map semantic segmentation and instance detection tasks.
title Complementing Onboard Sensors with Satellite Map: A New Perspective for HD Map Construction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15427