RATopo: Improving Lane Topology Reasoning via Redundancy Assignment

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Main Authors: Li, Han, Huang, Shaofei, Xu, Longfei, Gao, Yulu, Mu, Beipeng, Liu, Si
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author Li, Han
Huang, Shaofei
Xu, Longfei
Gao, Yulu
Mu, Beipeng
Liu, Si
author_facet Li, Han
Huang, Shaofei
Xu, Longfei
Gao, Yulu
Mu, Beipeng
Liu, Si
contents Lane topology reasoning plays a critical role in autonomous driving by modeling the connections among lanes and the topological relationships between lanes and traffic elements. Most existing methods adopt a first-detect-then-reason paradigm, where topological relationships are supervised based on the one-to-one assignment results obtained during the detection stage. This supervision strategy results in suboptimal topology reasoning performance due to the limited range of valid supervision. In this paper, we propose RATopo, a Redundancy Assignment strategy for lane Topology reasoning that enables quantity-rich and geometry-diverse topology supervision. Specifically, we restructure the Transformer decoder by swapping the cross-attention and self-attention layers. This allows redundant lane predictions to be retained before suppression, enabling effective one-to-many assignment. We also instantiate multiple parallel cross-attention blocks with independent parameters, which further enhances the diversity of detected lanes. Extensive experiments on OpenLane-V2 demonstrate that our RATopo strategy is model-agnostic and can be seamlessly integrated into existing topology reasoning frameworks, consistently improving both lane-lane and lane-traffic topology performance.
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spellingShingle RATopo: Improving Lane Topology Reasoning via Redundancy Assignment
Li, Han
Huang, Shaofei
Xu, Longfei
Gao, Yulu
Mu, Beipeng
Liu, Si
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Lane topology reasoning plays a critical role in autonomous driving by modeling the connections among lanes and the topological relationships between lanes and traffic elements. Most existing methods adopt a first-detect-then-reason paradigm, where topological relationships are supervised based on the one-to-one assignment results obtained during the detection stage. This supervision strategy results in suboptimal topology reasoning performance due to the limited range of valid supervision. In this paper, we propose RATopo, a Redundancy Assignment strategy for lane Topology reasoning that enables quantity-rich and geometry-diverse topology supervision. Specifically, we restructure the Transformer decoder by swapping the cross-attention and self-attention layers. This allows redundant lane predictions to be retained before suppression, enabling effective one-to-many assignment. We also instantiate multiple parallel cross-attention blocks with independent parameters, which further enhances the diversity of detected lanes. Extensive experiments on OpenLane-V2 demonstrate that our RATopo strategy is model-agnostic and can be seamlessly integrated into existing topology reasoning frameworks, consistently improving both lane-lane and lane-traffic topology performance.
title RATopo: Improving Lane Topology Reasoning via Redundancy Assignment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15272