LDMapNet-U: An End-to-End System for City-Scale Lane-Level Map Updating

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Main Authors: Xia, Deguo, Zhang, Weiming, Liu, Xiyan, Zhang, Wei, Gong, Chenting, Tan, Xiao, Huang, Jizhou, Yang, Mengmeng, Yang, Diange
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author Xia, Deguo
Zhang, Weiming
Liu, Xiyan
Zhang, Wei
Gong, Chenting
Tan, Xiao
Huang, Jizhou
Yang, Mengmeng
Yang, Diange
author_facet Xia, Deguo
Zhang, Weiming
Liu, Xiyan
Zhang, Wei
Gong, Chenting
Tan, Xiao
Huang, Jizhou
Yang, Mengmeng
Yang, Diange
contents An up-to-date city-scale lane-level map is an indispensable infrastructure and a key enabling technology for ensuring the safety and user experience of autonomous driving systems. In industrial scenarios, reliance on manual annotation for map updates creates a critical bottleneck. Lane-level updates require precise change information and must ensure consistency with adjacent data while adhering to strict standards. Traditional methods utilize a three-stage approach-construction, change detection, and updating-which often necessitates manual verification due to accuracy limitations. This results in labor-intensive processes and hampers timely updates. To address these challenges, we propose LDMapNet-U, which implements a new end-to-end paradigm for city-scale lane-level map updating. By reconceptualizing the update task as an end-to-end map generation process grounded in historical map data, we introduce a paradigm shift in map updating that simultaneously generates vectorized maps and change information. To achieve this, a Prior-Map Encoding (PME) module is introduced to effectively encode historical maps, serving as a critical reference for detecting changes. Additionally, we incorporate a novel Instance Change Prediction (ICP) module that learns to predict associations with historical maps. Consequently, LDMapNet-U simultaneously achieves vectorized map element generation and change detection. To demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of LDMapNet-U, extensive experiments are conducted using large-scale real-world datasets. In addition, LDMapNet-U has been successfully deployed in production at Baidu Maps since April 2024, supporting map updating for over 360 cities and significantly shortening the update cycle from quarterly to weekly. The updated maps serve hundreds of millions of users and are integrated into the autonomous driving systems of several leading vehicle companies.
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spellingShingle LDMapNet-U: An End-to-End System for City-Scale Lane-Level Map Updating
Xia, Deguo
Zhang, Weiming
Liu, Xiyan
Zhang, Wei
Gong, Chenting
Tan, Xiao
Huang, Jizhou
Yang, Mengmeng
Yang, Diange
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
An up-to-date city-scale lane-level map is an indispensable infrastructure and a key enabling technology for ensuring the safety and user experience of autonomous driving systems. In industrial scenarios, reliance on manual annotation for map updates creates a critical bottleneck. Lane-level updates require precise change information and must ensure consistency with adjacent data while adhering to strict standards. Traditional methods utilize a three-stage approach-construction, change detection, and updating-which often necessitates manual verification due to accuracy limitations. This results in labor-intensive processes and hampers timely updates. To address these challenges, we propose LDMapNet-U, which implements a new end-to-end paradigm for city-scale lane-level map updating. By reconceptualizing the update task as an end-to-end map generation process grounded in historical map data, we introduce a paradigm shift in map updating that simultaneously generates vectorized maps and change information. To achieve this, a Prior-Map Encoding (PME) module is introduced to effectively encode historical maps, serving as a critical reference for detecting changes. Additionally, we incorporate a novel Instance Change Prediction (ICP) module that learns to predict associations with historical maps. Consequently, LDMapNet-U simultaneously achieves vectorized map element generation and change detection. To demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of LDMapNet-U, extensive experiments are conducted using large-scale real-world datasets. In addition, LDMapNet-U has been successfully deployed in production at Baidu Maps since April 2024, supporting map updating for over 360 cities and significantly shortening the update cycle from quarterly to weekly. The updated maps serve hundreds of millions of users and are integrated into the autonomous driving systems of several leading vehicle companies.
title LDMapNet-U: An End-to-End System for City-Scale Lane-Level Map Updating
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02763