An apparatus for determining sections for map update includes a processor configured to select, for each of pairs of two locations selected from among a plurality of locations at which vehicles can enter or exit a predetermined region, a series of road sections connecting the two locations from…
According to the present invention, a computer: acquires state information indicating types and locations of a plurality of mobility devices traveling on one or more roads in a predetermined area; for each of the one or more roads, calculates, on the basis of the state information and for each of…
This disclosure provides a method for determining an association relationship between road elements, a related system, and a storage medium. The method may include: obtaining road perception element information and road prior element information; processing the road perception element information…
A vehicle uses environmental sensors to gather and record environmental data, which is transmitted to a vehicle-external server after it has been recorded. A public and a non-public category of the road being traversed by the vehicle is taken into account from an existing database. In the case of a…
A method includes receiving information about vehicles traveling within a vehicle transportation network. The information comprises driveline data and information regarding lanes within the network. The driveline data comprises one or more drivelines representing a position of one of the vehicles…
Various embodiments of methods and systems for automated update of digital map data based on media messages are described herein. Communication messages are collected from one or more media services. Information relevant to an accident and comprising at least one road reference is extracted from…
A method for generating predictions for vectorized High Definition (HD) map elements includes obtaining sensor data generated by sensors of a vehicle; extracting feature maps from the sensor data; identifying anchor regions based on the feature maps, wherein the anchor regions represent potential…
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining a vertical order of overlapping road segments. In one embodiment, a method includes generating connections between centroids based on at least an elevation difference, proximity, and forming a non-self-overlapping…
Described are systems and techniques for road surveying. Information indicative of a sequence of target road sections each comprising one or more road segments can be used to configure a vehicle to perform a road survey by traveling each target road section of the sequence. Data acquisition can be…
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating a road graph from a frame graph. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a frame graph of a region. The frame graph includes a plurality of points and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of points based…
Disclosed apparatuses and methods for identifying map geospatial features include a processor operable to extract, through spatial analysis, geospatial features from map data of a road network at a location, determine, through a similarity analysis, whether two or more of the geospatial features…
Provided are a device and method for displaying road conditions on the basis of road cells. The method includes receiving, by a server, a map including boundary and centerline information of a road and databasing the map, receiving, by the server, condition information of the road, generating, by…
A method for crowd-sourcing lane line map data for a vehicle may include receiving a plurality of observations. The plurality of observations includes at least a first observation and a second observation. The method further may include generating a point cloud alignment vector based at least in…
A system for generating a heat map corresponding to a difficult road topography includes one or more processors, network interface hardware, and one or more memory modules. When the machine-readable instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the system is caused to: receive vehicle…
A method for crowd-sourcing lane line map data for a vehicle includes receiving a plurality of observations. The method also includes classifying the plurality of observations into a plurality of observation categories. Each of the plurality of observation categories includes at least one of the…
Systems and methods of generating and updating a world model for autonomous vehicle navigation are disclosed. An autonomous vehicle system can receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors of an autonomous vehicle, where the sensor data is captured during operation of the autonomous vehicle…
Disclosed herein are methods and systems (sensors) that allow revision of HD maps for lane lines as the lane lines are created. In a non-limiting example, a method comprises receiving, by a processor from a sensor associated with a vehicle configured to paint a lane line, a color attribute, a…
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections. In one example, the apparatus identifies an intersection associated with at least two road signs having the same sign type and facing the same direction. The apparatus…
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for handling unmapped speed limit signs. For example, the method includes receiving sensor data from a sensor of a vehicle, identifying a traffic sign within a field of view of the vehicle based on the sensor data…
Aspects concern a method for generating map data, the method including: generating of a plurality of cells of a real space area, each cell representing a two-dimensional sub-space of the real space area, wherein each of the cells comprise at least one global positioning system (GPS) point, and…
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating a semantic map for a road portion. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data related to a road portion. The sensor data includes trace points and key points associated with the trace points. The trace…
The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for validation of sensor data. The system may be configured to receive sensor data associated with a hazard. The sensor data may include at least a first time of occurrence of the hazard. The system may be further configured…
The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for updating map data. The system, for example, obtains sensor data from one or more user equipment. The sensor data is associated with a road object. Further, the system, determines a first location of a road observation…
A computer system is provided. The computer system comprises a processor device configured to receive map data representing characteristics of a road ahead of a vehicle, the vehicle having an actual vehicle width and an actual vehicle length; determine a maximum width of the vehicle based on at…
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections. In one example, the apparatus identifies an intersection associated with at least two road signs having the same sign type and facing the same direction. The apparatus…
Location-synchronous averaging of connected vehicle data is provided. Connected vehicle data, including events occurring to a plurality of vehicles driving along roadways and location coordinates at which the respective events occurred, is aggregated. A kernel density estimation is performed to…
A display control device includes a controller (). The controller () acquires a travel route of a subject vehicle having an autonomous traveling function, acquires information on a state of surroundings of the subject vehicle, performs, based on the state of surroundings of the subject vehicle…
Aspects concern a method for correcting errors in map data comprising obtaining map data specifying travel possibilities between locations, generating a routing graph from the map data by assigning a vertex to each location and an edge from one vertex to another vertex if the map data specifies…
An approach is provided path-based map matching of a sequence of probe points. The approach involves, for instance, projecting a probe point of the sequence of probe points to a plurality of element projections, wherein each of the plurality of element projections is a candidate projection of the…
Disclosed are methods and systems for automatic generation and distribution of curbside map data. A server receives municipal regulation data from an external source, and processes the municipal regulation data to generate curbside map data. The server also transmits a message conveying at least a…