Localization & Mapping WG Meeting 2024/08/28

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Administrative

• Previous meeting notes

Attendees

Chaired by Armağan Arslan (Leo Drive)

• Melike Tanrıkulu (Leo Drive)
• Anweshan Das (TU/e) - Tomtom

Agenda:

• Introduction of new attendees
• Agenda confirmation
• Discussion new technologies for 2025
• Radar - Lidar calibration results (Anweshan)

Discussion topic:

• Introduction of new attendees

  • None

• New Research Areas:

  • Using SD Maps and traffic information for path planning:
    • https://www.mapbox.com/autopilot-map
    • https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/4120
    • https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/5113
    • https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/4545
  • New Mapping Techniques
    • https://github.com/LoveFaFa2333/Awesome-Online-Vector-Map
    • InsMapper: Exploring Inner-instance Information for Vectorized HD Mapping: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08543
    • Centerline Det: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07734
    • HDMap NEt. https://tsinghua-mars-lab.github.io/HDMapNet/
    • StreamMapNet: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.12570
    • Maptracker: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15951
  • New techniques for environment generation and usage under simulation:
    • Autosplat: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.02598
    • 3DGS: https://github.com/graphdeco-inria/gaussian-splatting
    • Driving gaussian: https://pkuvdig.github.io/DrivingGaussian/
    • Nvidia (Emernerf) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgot-CK1xRk
    • Tesla: https://youtu.be/ODSJsviD_SU?t=6466
    • Aimotive (Gaussian Splatting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad4dFNxt1Q8

• Online Calibration and Turning MapLoc to CaMaLo or Maloca

  • Not clear yet, and not fully supported.

• Anweshan shared radar-lidar calibration and data collected

• Evaluation of Localization Performance with a New Map (Melike)

  • Ongoing

• TU/e Eindhoven becoming a member - AA will check