Spatial Retrieval Augmented Autonomous Driving

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Autori principali: Jia, Xiaosong, Zhang, Chenhe, Jiang, Yule, Wong, Songbur, Zhang, Zhiyuan, Chen, Chen, Zhang, Shaofeng, Zhou, Xuanhe, Yang, Xue, Yan, Junchi, Jiang, Yu-Gang
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author Jia, Xiaosong
Zhang, Chenhe
Jiang, Yule
Wong, Songbur
Zhang, Zhiyuan
Chen, Chen
Zhang, Shaofeng
Zhou, Xuanhe
Yang, Xue
Yan, Junchi
Jiang, Yu-Gang
author_facet Jia, Xiaosong
Zhang, Chenhe
Jiang, Yule
Wong, Songbur
Zhang, Zhiyuan
Chen, Chen
Zhang, Shaofeng
Zhou, Xuanhe
Yang, Xue
Yan, Junchi
Jiang, Yu-Gang
contents Existing autonomous driving systems rely on onboard sensors (cameras, LiDAR, IMU, etc) for environmental perception. However, this paradigm is limited by the drive-time perception horizon and often fails under limited view scope, occlusion or extreme conditions such as darkness and rain. In contrast, human drivers are able to recall road structure even under poor visibility. To endow models with this ``recall" ability, we propose the spatial retrieval paradigm, introducing offline retrieved geographic images as an additional input. These images are easy to obtain from offline caches (e.g, Google Maps or stored autonomous driving datasets) without requiring additional sensors, making it a plug-and-play extension for existing AD tasks. For experiments, we first extend the nuScenes dataset with geographic images retrieved via Google Maps APIs and align the new data with ego-vehicle trajectories. We establish baselines across five core autonomous driving tasks: object detection, online mapping, occupancy prediction, end-to-end planning, and generative world modeling. Extensive experiments show that the extended modality could enhance the performance of certain tasks. We will open-source dataset curation code, data, and benchmarks for further study of this new autonomous driving paradigm.
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Jia, Xiaosong
Zhang, Chenhe
Jiang, Yule
Wong, Songbur
Zhang, Zhiyuan
Chen, Chen
Zhang, Shaofeng
Zhou, Xuanhe
Yang, Xue
Yan, Junchi
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Existing autonomous driving systems rely on onboard sensors (cameras, LiDAR, IMU, etc) for environmental perception. However, this paradigm is limited by the drive-time perception horizon and often fails under limited view scope, occlusion or extreme conditions such as darkness and rain. In contrast, human drivers are able to recall road structure even under poor visibility. To endow models with this ``recall" ability, we propose the spatial retrieval paradigm, introducing offline retrieved geographic images as an additional input. These images are easy to obtain from offline caches (e.g, Google Maps or stored autonomous driving datasets) without requiring additional sensors, making it a plug-and-play extension for existing AD tasks. For experiments, we first extend the nuScenes dataset with geographic images retrieved via Google Maps APIs and align the new data with ego-vehicle trajectories. We establish baselines across five core autonomous driving tasks: object detection, online mapping, occupancy prediction, end-to-end planning, and generative world modeling. Extensive experiments show that the extended modality could enhance the performance of certain tasks. We will open-source dataset curation code, data, and benchmarks for further study of this new autonomous driving paradigm.
title Spatial Retrieval Augmented Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06865