Summary of Globalmapnet: An Online Framework For Vectorized Global Hd Map Construction, by Anqi Shi et al.
GlobalMapNet: An Online Framework for Vectorized Global HD Map Construction
by Anqi Shi, Yuze Cai, Xiangyu Chen, Jian Pu, Zeyu Fu, Hong Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel methodology for constructing high-definition (HD) maps for autonomous driving systems, leveraging the benefits of crowdsourcing and online mapping. The proposed approach, called GlobalMapNet, is an online framework that updates and utilizes a global map on the ego vehicle. To generate the global map from scratch, the authors introduce GlobalMapBuilder, which matches and merges local maps continuously. Additionally, they propose Map NMS to remove duplicate map elements and produce a clean map, as well as GlobalMapFusion to aggregate historical map information for improved consistency. The framework is evaluated on two widely recognized datasets, Argoverse2 and nuScenes, demonstrating its capability to generate globally consistent results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about creating detailed maps that are essential for self-driving cars. Currently, making these maps is a complex and time-consuming process. The authors propose a new way to make these maps by combining the benefits of crowdsourcing (where many people contribute data) and online mapping (where data is shared on the internet). They create an online framework called GlobalMapNet that updates and uses a global map on each self-driving car. To make the map from scratch, they develop two other tools: GlobalMapBuilder to match and merge local maps together, and Map NMS to remove duplicates and produce a clean map. The authors test their approach using real-world data and show that it can generate consistent results. |
