A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for learning to generate maps from raw geospatial observations from sensors traveling within an environment. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of sequences of geospatial observations from discrete trajectories; aligning the trajectories to generate aligned geospatial observations; concatenating the aligned geospatial observations; processing the concatenated, aligned geospatial observations using one or more Set Transformers; generating, from the at least one Set Transformer, map geometries including objects from the geospatial observations; and providing at least one of navigational assistance or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control based on the map geometries. According to some embodiments, aligning the trajectories includes applying a geospatial offset for one or more of the trajectories.

A method for predicting an ego-lane for a vehicle. The method includes: receiving at least one image captured by at last one camera sensor of the vehicle, which depicts a lane that may be used by a vehicle; ascertaining a center line of the lane, which extends through a center of the lane, by implementing a trained neural network on the captured image, the neural network being trained via regression to ascertain a center line of a lane, which extends in a center of the lane, based on captured images of the lane; outputting a plurality of parameters, which describe the center line of the lane, via the neural network; generating the center line based on the parameters of the center line; identifying the center line of the lane as the ego-lane of the vehicle; and providing the ego-lane.

A method is described for performing a real time analysis of traffic flow control device related data using a plurality of vehicles connected in at least one vehicle cell network. The method compares position data from vehicles defining a traffic flow with received data for a traffic flow control device and geometry and topology data concerning a transport engineering construction related to the traffic flow control device to evaluate if a discrepancy can be detected between the geometry and topology data concerning the transport engineering construction and the traffic flow defined by the vehicles positions. The method may be used for updating and/or finding errors in the geometry and topology data concerning the transport engineering construction.

A method for aligning digital maps, in particular by a control unit. Data of a first map present in a first coordinate system and data of a second map present in a second coordinate system are received. At least one trajectory within the first map and at least one trajectory within the second map are ascertained based on the received data. The data of the first coordinate system and the data of the second coordinate system are aligned with one another based on the respective trajectories. A transfer system, a control device, a computer program, and a machine-readable memory medium are also described.

An entry point and an exit point are specified in a non-lane section. A lane definition line is searched to be continuous in a longitudinal direction of the road from the entry point to the exit point. A virtual lane marking line is generated to connect between the lane marking line on an entry side and the lane marking line on an exit side, based on the lane definition line detected as a search result. A travelling track is generated as a trajectory on which a vehicle is scheduled to travel, based on the virtual lane marking line.

A method for performing an at least partially automatic vehicle function of a vehicle depending on a travel route to be assessed by means of a driver assistance system is disclosed. The method comprises providing a plurality of clusters from route data with respect to at least one known travel route, wherein the clusters group the route data sectionwise according to predefined geometric parameters. The method comprises providing recorded course data that indicate a course of the travel route to be assessed and applying the clusters to the course data in order to divide the travel route to be assessed into route sections corresponding to the clusters. The method comprises determining at least one uncertainty quantity which is characteristic of an uncertainty with respect to the assignment made and determining a control quantity as a function of the uncertainty quantity and providing the control quantity for performing the vehicle function.

A system of highly detailed mapping data for correcting the data format and detail level of the map data adaptively to a specification of a distribution destination. The system includes a data supplementing unit for supplementing medium-/low-detail map data to make the map data highly detailed, an authoring unit for editing the map data adapted to the multiple specifications which differ at least in one of the data format and the detail level, and a database for accumulating the edited map data to allow distribution of the map data as versatile data. The system includes a reliability evaluation unit communicating with the distribution destination via information, and allowing evaluation of reliability indicating a degree to which the versatile data are adapted to the specification, and a reliability registration unit for registering the reliability in the database by associating the evaluation of the reliability evaluation unit with the versatile data.

A method for constructing a lane-level navigation map is provided. The method may include: determining a change position of a lane in a road-level electronic map; extracting lane information of the change position of the lane, the lane information including a lane connectivity relationship; and storing the lane information in the road-level electronic map to obtain the lane-level navigation map.

A method for constructing a three-dimensional road network map is disclosed. The method includes: extracting a two-dimensional road based on a satellite remote sensing image; skeletonizing the two-dimensional road to obtain a two-dimensional road network map; and determining a height of each point in the two-dimensional road network map based on an elevation of three-dimensional point cloud data, to obtain the three-dimensional road network map.

An apparatus for updating map information for a vehicle includes a vehicle information detecting device that detects information of a surrounding vehicle which accompanies a vehicle, when the vehicle travels through an intersection, a line analyzing device that analyzes line information based on information of the surrounding vehicle which accompanies the vehicle, a reliability determining device that determines reliability of the line information, and a controller that extracts a change point on a map based on the reliability and update map information based on the change point.