2026
Unified Map Prior Encoder for Mapping and Planning
ICRA 2026poster
Online mapping and end-to-end (E2E) planning in autonomous driving are still largely sensor-centric, leaving rich map priors—HD/SD vector maps, rasterized SD maps, and satellite imagery—underused due to heterogeneity, pose drift, and inconsistent availability at test time. We present emph{UMPE}, a U…