Refining inferred road maps using GANs
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Author(s)
Park, Edward(Edward S.),M. Eng.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Advisor(s)
Mohammad Alizadeh.
Alternative Title
Refining inferred road maps using Generative Adversarial Networks
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Mapping road networks is both expensive and labor-intensive. A variety of automated mapping approaches have been proposed in recent years, but these schemes often produce maps that are messy, error-prone, or visually unappealing. To fix this, we train a conditional Wasserstein GAN to refine the inferred road map and improve its realism. We show that adding a truth padding stage between the discriminator and generator vastly improves tile consistency, and we introduce a postprocessing pipeline to further clean the graph. To evaluate these results, we focus on a state-of-the-art map inference method known as RoadTracer, published in 2018 by MIT and QCRI. We compare our refinement approach with the original RoadTracer input and easily see qualitative improvements with similar topology.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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