arXiv:2603.20076cs.RO2026-03

为自动驾驶地图生成引入结构化不确定性建模,提升预测可靠性。

Uncertainty Matters: Structured Probabilistic Online Mapping for Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving

  • 用低秩加对角分解建模道路几何相关性,捕捉空间依赖。
  • 在nuScenes数据集上,地图生成质量优于确定性基线,运动预测性能达新高。
  • 适合关注感知-规划链路中不确定性建模的研究者与工程师。

在线地图生成与轨迹预测是自动驾驶感知-预测-规划流程中的关键环节。尽管现代向量化地图模型具备高几何精度,但通常将地图估计视为确定性任务,忽略结构不确定性。现有概率方法多依赖对角协方差矩阵,假设点间独立,无法捕捉道路几何中的强空间相关性。为此,本文提出一种面向在线地图生成的结构化概率建模方法。通过预测稠密协方差矩阵,并采用低秩加对角(LRPD)分解参数化,显式建模元素内依赖关系。该形式将不确定性分解为低秩成分(捕获全局空间结构)和对角成分(代表局部独立噪声),在不付出全协方差矩阵计算代价的前提下,有效建模几何相关性。在nuScenes数据集上的评估表明,该不确定性感知框架相较确定性基线显著提升在线地图生成质量;同时,在基于地图的运动预测任务中达到新最优性能,凸显不确定性在规划任务中的关键作用。代码将在链接发布后公开。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Online map generation and trajectory prediction are critical components of the autonomous driving perception-prediction-planning pipeline. While modern vectorized mapping models achieve high geometric accuracy, they typically treat map estimation as a deterministic task, discarding structural uncertainty. Existing probabilistic approaches often rely on diagonal covariance matrices, which assume independence between points and fail to capture the strong spatial correlations inherent in road geometry. To address this, we propose a structured probabilistic formulation for online map generation. Our method explicitly models intra-element dependencies by predicting a dense covariance matrix, parameterized via a Low-Rank plus Diagonal (LRPD) covariance decomposition. This formulation represents uncertainty as a combination of a low-rank component, which captures global spatial structure, and a diagonal component representing independent local noise, thereby capturing geometric correlations without the prohibitive computational cost of full covariance matrices. Evaluations on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that our uncertainty-aware framework yields consistent improvements in online map generation quality compared to deterministic baselines. Furthermore, our approach establishes new state-of-the-art performance for map-based motion prediction, highlighting the critical role of uncertainty in planning tasks. Code is published under link-available-soon.

自动驾驶不确定性建模地图生成概率推理

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