Sabir Hossain

Zhibin Bao, Sabir Hossain, Haoxiang Lang et al.

Autonomous driving has been among the most popular and challenging topics in the past few years. On the road to achieving full autonomy, researchers have utilized various sensors, such as LiDAR, camera, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and GPS, and developed intelligent algorithms for autonomous driving applications such as object detection, object segmentation, obstacle avoidance, and path planning. High-definition (HD) maps have drawn lots of attention in recent years. Because of the high precision and informative level of HD maps in localization, it has immediately become one of the critical components of autonomous driving. From big organizations like Baidu Apollo, NVIDIA, and TomTom to individual researchers, researchers have created HD maps for different scenes and purposes for autonomous driving. It is necessary to review the state-of-the-art methods for HD map generation. This paper reviews recent HD map generation technologies that leverage both 2D and 3D map generation. This review introduces the concept of HD maps and their usefulness in autonomous driving and gives a detailed overview of HD map generation techniques. We will also discuss the limitations of the current HD map generation technologies to motivate future research.

Sabir Hossain, Xianke Lin

Perception and localization are essential for autonomous delivery vehicles, mostly estimated from 3D LiDAR sensors due to their precise distance measurement capability. This paper presents a strategy to obtain the real-time pseudo point cloud instead of the laser sensor from the image sensor. We propose an approach to use different depth estimators to obtain pseudo point clouds like LiDAR to obtain better performance. Moreover, the training and validating strategy of the depth estimator has adopted stereo imagery data to estimate more accurate depth estimation as well as point cloud results. Our approach to generating depth maps outperforms on KITTI benchmark while yielding point clouds significantly faster than other approaches.