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Diff-Net: Image Feature Difference based High-Definition Map Change Detection

Up-to-date High-Definition (HD) maps are essential for self-driving cars. To achieve constantly updated HD maps, we present a deep neural network (DNN), Diff-Net, to detect changes in them. Compared to traditional methods based on object detectors, …

Exploring Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving with Feedback Synthesizer and Differentiable Rasterization

We present a learning-based planner that aims to robustly drive a vehicle by mimicking human drivers' driving behavior. We leverage a mid-to-mid approach that allows us to manipulate the input to our imitation learning network freely. With that in …

DA4AD: End-to-end Deep Attention-based Visual Localization for Autonomous Driving

We present a visual localization framework based on novel deep attention aware features for autonomous driving that achieves centimeter level localization accuracy. Conventional approaches to the visual localization problem rely on handcrafted …

LiDAR Inertial Odometry Aided Robust LiDAR Localization System in Changing City Scenes

Environmental fluctuations pose crucial challenges to a localization system in autonomous driving. We present a robust LiDAR localization system that maintains its kinematic estimation in changing urban scenarios by using a dead reckoning solution …

DeepVCP: An End-to-End Deep Neural Network for Point Cloud Registration

We present DeepVCP - a novel end-to-end learning-based 3D point cloud registration framework that achieves comparable registration accuracy to prior state-of-the-art geometric methods. Different from other keypoint based methods where a RANSAC …

L3-Net: Towards Learning based LiDAR Localization for Autonomous Driving

We present L3-Net - a novel learning-based LiDAR localization system that achieves centimeter-level localization accuracy, comparable to prior state-of-the-art systems with hand-crafted pipelines. Rather than relying on these hand-crafted modules, we …

Robust and Precise Vehicle Localization based on Multi-sensor Fusion in Diverse City Scenes

We present a robust and precise localization system that achieves centimeter-level localization accuracy in disparate city scenes. Our system adaptively uses information from complementary sensors such as GNSS, LiDAR, and IMU to achieve high …

High Accuracy Monocular SFM and Scale Correction for Autonomous Driving

We present a real-time monocular visual odometry system that achieves high accuracy in real-world autonomous driving applications. First, we demonstrate robust monocular SFM that exploits multithreading to handle driving scenes with large motions and …

Joint SFM and Detection Cues for Monocular 3D Localization in Road Scenes

We present a system for fast and highly accurate 3D localization of objects like cars in autonomous driving applications, using a single camera. Our localization framework jointly uses information from complementary modalities such as structure from …

Robust Scale Estimation in Real-Time Monocular SFM for Autonomous Driving

Scale drift is a crucial challenge for monocular autonomous driving to emulate the performance of stereo. This paper presents a real-time monocular SFM system that corrects for scale drift using a novel cue combination framework for ground plane …