Bird's-Eye View (BEV) end-to-end instance prediction has emerged as a robust paradigm for autonomous driving perception, effectively mitigating the error propagation inherent in traditional modular pipelines. However, current state-of-the-art approaches rely predominantly on geometric supervision, such as occupancy regression and optical flow, effectively treating scene agents as generic moving obstacles.
arXiv:2608.21440v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging foundation models for semantic reasoning and long-tail...
By Ran Chen, Jiaxing Ren, Zhikun Zhang, Yunhao Hou, Junbao Zhuo, Bochao Zou
arXiv:2610.09118v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Topology reasoning jointly detects 3D lanes and traffic elements from multi-view images and infers their structural connectivity. Current methods model...
By Mihai Bogdan Deaconu, Laura Dio\c{s}an
arXiv:2512. 16919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving.
By Sicheng Zuo, Zixun Xie, Wenzhao Zheng, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Shengyin Jiang, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Jiwen Lu
ObjectGuidedMap introduces a multitask architecture that jointly predicts bird's eye view (BEV) maps and 3D objects, enabling explicit information exchange between the two tasks. By adding an object detection branch and cross‑task feature fusion through deformable attention and cross‑attention, the model allows map instances to leverage object context while remaining robust to occlusions. Experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 show consistent improvements in BEV map prediction accuracy, especially a 21% mAP gain in heavily occluded scenes.
By Christian Bohn, Harsh Yadav, Klaus Friedrichs, Hasan Tercan, Tobias Meisen
MapLightning introduces a new approach to online vectorized HD map construction that replaces dense bird’s‑eye‑view grids with a compact set of 1D learnable map tokens. Using a transformer‑based mapper that applies full self‑attention to combined image and map tokens, the method achieves efficient inference, lower memory usage, and improved global context without relying on camera projection parameters. Experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 show state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, with a lightweight variant outperforming MapTRv2 by over 10 mAP and running 1.73× faster at 40+ FPS while using 53 % less memory.
By Shen Zheng, Anurag Ghosh, Mani Ramanagopal, Srinivasa Narasimhan