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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Creating Impactful Autonomous Driving Datasets: A Strategic Guide from Research Gap to Benchmark

Richard Schwarzkopf, Jonas Merkert, Frank Bieder +22

Well-designed autonomous driving datasets have fundamentally shaped research progress, yet existing literature primarily describes what datasets contain rather than how to strategi…

cs.CV2026

The Road Ahead in Autonomous Driving: The KITScenes Multimodal Dataset

Richard Schwarzkopf, Fabian Immel, Alexander Blumberg +21

Existing autonomous driving datasets have enabled major progress, but fall short in sensor fidelity, map completeness, or geographic diversity. We present KITScenes Multimodal, a E…

cs.RO2026

MapGCLR: Geospatial Contrastive Learning of Representations for Online Vectorized HD Map Construction

Jonas Merkert, Alexander Blumberg, Jan-Hendrik Pauls +1

Autonomous vehicles rely on map information to understand the world around them. However, the creation and maintenance of offline high-definition (HD) maps remains costly. A more s…

cs.RO2026

Radar-based Pose Optimization for HD Map Generation from Noisy Multi-Drive Vehicle Fleet Data

Alexander Blumberg, Jonas Merkert, Christoph Stiller

High-definition (HD) maps are important for autonomous driving, but their manual generation and maintenance is very expensive. This motivates the usage of an automated map generati…

cs.RO2026

Impact of Localization Errors on Label Quality for Online HD Map Construction

Alexander Blumberg, Jonas Merkert, Richard Fehler +4

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial for autonomous vehicles, but their creation and maintenance is very costly. This motivates the idea of online HD map construction. To provide…