Leveraging GNSS and Onboard Visual Data from Consumer Vehicles for Robust Road Network Estimation

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Autores principales: Opra, Balázs, Dem, Betty Le, Walls, Jeffrey M., Lukarski, Dimitar, Stachniss, Cyrill
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Publicado: 2024
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author Opra, Balázs
Dem, Betty Le
Walls, Jeffrey M.
Lukarski, Dimitar
Stachniss, Cyrill
author_facet Opra, Balázs
Dem, Betty Le
Walls, Jeffrey M.
Lukarski, Dimitar
Stachniss, Cyrill
contents Maps are essential for diverse applications, such as vehicle navigation and autonomous robotics. Both require spatial models for effective route planning and localization. This paper addresses the challenge of road graph construction for autonomous vehicles. Despite recent advances, creating a road graph remains labor-intensive and has yet to achieve full automation. The goal of this paper is to generate such graphs automatically and accurately. Modern cars are equipped with onboard sensors used for today's advanced driver assistance systems like lane keeping. We propose using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) traces and basic image data acquired from these standard sensors in consumer vehicles to estimate road-level maps with minimal effort. We exploit the spatial information in the data by framing the problem as a road centerline semantic segmentation task using a convolutional neural network. We also utilize the data's time series nature to refine the neural network's output by using map matching. We implemented and evaluated our method using a fleet of real consumer vehicles, only using the deployed onboard sensors. Our evaluation demonstrates that our approach not only matches existing methods on simpler road configurations but also significantly outperforms them on more complex road geometries and topologies. This work received the 2023 Woven by Toyota Invention Award.
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spellingShingle Leveraging GNSS and Onboard Visual Data from Consumer Vehicles for Robust Road Network Estimation
Opra, Balázs
Dem, Betty Le
Walls, Jeffrey M.
Lukarski, Dimitar
Stachniss, Cyrill
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
I.2.9; I.2.10; I.5.4
Maps are essential for diverse applications, such as vehicle navigation and autonomous robotics. Both require spatial models for effective route planning and localization. This paper addresses the challenge of road graph construction for autonomous vehicles. Despite recent advances, creating a road graph remains labor-intensive and has yet to achieve full automation. The goal of this paper is to generate such graphs automatically and accurately. Modern cars are equipped with onboard sensors used for today's advanced driver assistance systems like lane keeping. We propose using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) traces and basic image data acquired from these standard sensors in consumer vehicles to estimate road-level maps with minimal effort. We exploit the spatial information in the data by framing the problem as a road centerline semantic segmentation task using a convolutional neural network. We also utilize the data's time series nature to refine the neural network's output by using map matching. We implemented and evaluated our method using a fleet of real consumer vehicles, only using the deployed onboard sensors. Our evaluation demonstrates that our approach not only matches existing methods on simpler road configurations but also significantly outperforms them on more complex road geometries and topologies. This work received the 2023 Woven by Toyota Invention Award.
title Leveraging GNSS and Onboard Visual Data from Consumer Vehicles for Robust Road Network Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
I.2.9; I.2.10; I.5.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01640