Convolutional Recurrent Network for Road Boundary Extraction

Justin Liang, Namdar Homayounfar, Wei Chiu Ma, Shenlong Wang, Raquel Urtasun

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Abstract

Creating high definition maps that contain precise information of static elements of the scene is of utmost importance for enabling self driving cars to drive safely. In this paper, we tackle the problem of drivable road boundary extraction from LiDAR and camera imagery. Towards this goal, we design a structured model where a fully convolutional network obtains deep features encoding the location and direction of road boundaries and then, a convolutional recurrent network outputs a polyline representation for each one of them. Importantly, our method is fully automatic and does not require a user in the loop. We showcase the effectiveness of our method on a large North American city where we obtain perfect topology of road boundaries 99.3% of the time at a high precision and recall.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages9504-9513
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728132938
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019 - Long Beach, United States
Duration: Jun 16 2019Jun 20 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume2019-June
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach
Period6/16/196/20/19

Keywords

  • Deep Learning
  • Grouping and Shape
  • Robotics + Driving
  • Segmentation
  • Vision Applications and Systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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