In plain words: A tool fills in broken sections of road maps by painting over the bad area and redrawing the road, handling curvy roads and junctions without hand-written rules. It works with any road-extraction system and fixed straight, curvy, T-junction and intersection cases.
Abstract · Correcting Faulty Road Maps by Image Inpainting
As maintaining road networks is labor-intensive, many automatic road extraction approaches have been introduced to solve this real-world problem, fueled by the abundance of large-scale high-resolution satellite imagery and advances in computer vision. However, their performance is limited for fully automating the road map extraction in real-world services. Hence, many services employ the two-step human-in-the-loop system to post-process the extracted road maps: error localization and automatic mending for faulty road maps. Our paper exclusively focuses on the latter step, introducing a novel image inpainting approach for fixing road maps with complex road geometries without custom-made heuristics, yielding a method that is readily applicable to any road geometry extraction model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on various real-world road geometries, such as straight and curvy roads, T-junctions, and intersections.
Soojung Hong, Kwanghee Choi
arXiv:2211.06544 · cs.CV · submitted Nov 12, 2022 · updated Jan 12, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted to ICASSP 2024. Implementation available at https://github.com/SoojungHong/image_inpainting_model_for_lane_geomery_discovery