| HIGH DEFINITION MAP AIDED OBJECT DETECTION FOR
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING IN URBAN AREAS |
| Yuki Endo 1, Ehsan Javanmardi 2, Yanlei Gu 3, Shunsuke Kamijo 2 |
1Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Information & Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2The Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo
3College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University |
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| ABSTRACT |
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Detecting object locations and semantic classes in an image, such as traffic signs, traffic lights, and guide signs,
is the crucial problem for autonomous driving, known as object detection. However, stable object detection in complex
real-world environments, such as urban environments, is still challenging because of clutter, time of day, blur etc., even with
modern deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). On the other hand, a high definition (HD) map is a pre-built
information resource for autonomous driving tasks, especially for controls. Besides controls, HD map utilization for detection
tasks has been gaining attention in recent years, enabling us to stabilize detection even in complex real-world environments.
However, it is challenging to use object information from an HD map as detection directly because the self-localization error
affects the transformed object locations on the image coordinate system from the HD map’s coordinate system. This paper
explores incorporating HD map information into deep feature maps of a DCNN-based model. Two proposed modules
implicitly make the feature extraction efficient and stable by utilizing HD map information. As a result of the experiments,
the proposed module improved a modern model for challenging images of the urban area Shinjuku by 37 % in mAP, even in
self-localization errors. |
| Key Words:
Autonomous driving, Object detection, Deep learning, High definition map, Self-localizat |
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Corresponding Author.
Yuki Endo , Email. 
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