SDTagNet: Leveraging Text-Annotated Navigation Maps for Online HD Map Construction

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Autori principali: Immel, Fabian, Pauls, Jan-Hendrik, Fehler, Richard, Bieder, Frank, Merkert, Jonas, Stiller, Christoph
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Immel, Fabian
Pauls, Jan-Hendrik
Fehler, Richard
Bieder, Frank
Merkert, Jonas
Stiller, Christoph
author_facet Immel, Fabian
Pauls, Jan-Hendrik
Fehler, Richard
Bieder, Frank
Merkert, Jonas
Stiller, Christoph
contents Autonomous vehicles rely on detailed and accurate environmental information to operate safely. High definition (HD) maps offer a promising solution, but their high maintenance cost poses a significant barrier to scalable deployment. This challenge is addressed by online HD map construction methods, which generate local HD maps from live sensor data. However, these methods are inherently limited by the short perception range of onboard sensors. To overcome this limitation and improve general performance, recent approaches have explored the use of standard definition (SD) maps as prior, which are significantly easier to maintain. We propose SDTagNet, the first online HD map construction method that fully utilizes the information of widely available SD maps, like OpenStreetMap, to enhance far range detection accuracy. Our approach introduces two key innovations. First, in contrast to previous work, we incorporate not only polyline SD map data with manually selected classes, but additional semantic information in the form of textual annotations. In this way, we enrich SD vector map tokens with NLP-derived features, eliminating the dependency on predefined specifications or exhaustive class taxonomies. Second, we introduce a point-level SD map encoder together with orthogonal element identifiers to uniformly integrate all types of map elements. Experiments on Argoverse 2 and nuScenes show that this boosts map perception performance by up to +5.9 mAP (+45%) w.r.t. map construction without priors and up to +3.2 mAP (+20%) w.r.t. previous approaches that already use SD map priors. Code is available at https://github.com/immel-f/SDTagNet
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spellingShingle SDTagNet: Leveraging Text-Annotated Navigation Maps for Online HD Map Construction
Immel, Fabian
Pauls, Jan-Hendrik
Fehler, Richard
Bieder, Frank
Merkert, Jonas
Stiller, Christoph
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Autonomous vehicles rely on detailed and accurate environmental information to operate safely. High definition (HD) maps offer a promising solution, but their high maintenance cost poses a significant barrier to scalable deployment. This challenge is addressed by online HD map construction methods, which generate local HD maps from live sensor data. However, these methods are inherently limited by the short perception range of onboard sensors. To overcome this limitation and improve general performance, recent approaches have explored the use of standard definition (SD) maps as prior, which are significantly easier to maintain. We propose SDTagNet, the first online HD map construction method that fully utilizes the information of widely available SD maps, like OpenStreetMap, to enhance far range detection accuracy. Our approach introduces two key innovations. First, in contrast to previous work, we incorporate not only polyline SD map data with manually selected classes, but additional semantic information in the form of textual annotations. In this way, we enrich SD vector map tokens with NLP-derived features, eliminating the dependency on predefined specifications or exhaustive class taxonomies. Second, we introduce a point-level SD map encoder together with orthogonal element identifiers to uniformly integrate all types of map elements. Experiments on Argoverse 2 and nuScenes show that this boosts map perception performance by up to +5.9 mAP (+45%) w.r.t. map construction without priors and up to +3.2 mAP (+20%) w.r.t. previous approaches that already use SD map priors. Code is available at https://github.com/immel-f/SDTagNet
title SDTagNet: Leveraging Text-Annotated Navigation Maps for Online HD Map Construction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08997