Assessing the Impact of Fleet Size on Crowdsourced Mapping Using a Dissimilarity Measure
Abstract
Accurate digital maps are essential for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) or Autonomous Driving (AD), providing critical information such as road geometry, traffic signs and speed limits required by safety functions including Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA). Maintaining these map layers using traditional surveying methods is costly and difficult to scale. Crowdsourced approaches based on fleets provide a promising alternative for continuously validating and updating map information. However, the relationship between the number of contributing vehicles and the quality of the resulting map remains poorly understood. To address this gap, this paper presents a simulation-based framework for evaluating crowdsourced traffic sign maintenance using a dissimilarity measure called GOSPAM (Generalized Optimal SubPattern Assignment for Maps), which combines localization errors with detection performance by accounting for False Positives (FP) and False Negatives (FN). The proposed system models multivehicle observations with representative sensor noise, detection errors, and semantic recognition uncertainties. Observations from multiple vehicles are aggregated using spatial clustering and semantic filtering to estimate traffic sign locations. Using simulated trajectories generated from data carried out by an experimental vehicle in an area containing ground-truth traffic signs, we assess the influence of fleet size on the performance of crowdsourced mapping. The number of vehicles ranges from 5 to 50, and performance is analyzed using standard evaluation metrics which are compared to the GOSPAM . The results show that GOSPAM can be used to effectively assess the quality of crowdsourced mapping, such as the contributions made by the first vehicles or the improvements made by numerous vehicles.
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BibTeX
@misc{kalenda2026assessing,
title = {{Assessing the Impact of Fleet Size on Crowdsourced Mapping Using a Dissimilarity Measure}},
author = {Marie-Ngoïe Badibanga Kalenda and Philippe Bonnifait and Marie-Anne Mittet},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.29198},
eprint = {2609.29198},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29198},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Assessing the Impact of Fleet Size on Crowdsourced Mapping Using a Dissimilarity Measure
AU - Marie-Ngoïe Badibanga Kalenda
AU - Philippe Bonnifait
AU - Marie-Anne Mittet
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.29198
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29198
AB - Accurate digital maps are essential for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) or Autonomous Driving (AD), providing critical information such as road geometry, traffic signs and speed limits required by safety functions including Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA). Maintaining these map layers using traditional surveying methods is costly and difficult to scale. Crowdsourced approaches based on fleets provide a promising alternative for continuously validating and updating map information. However, the relationship between the number of contributing vehicles and the quality of the resulting map remains poorly understood. To address this gap, this paper presents a simulation-based framework for evaluating crowdsourced traffic sign maintenance using a dissimilarity measure called GOSPAM (Generalized Optimal SubPattern Assignment for Maps), which combines localization errors with detection performance by accounting for False Positives (FP) and False Negatives (FN). The proposed system models multivehicle observations with representative sensor noise, detection errors, and semantic recognition uncertainties. Observations from multiple vehicles are aggregated using spatial clustering and semantic filtering to estimate traffic sign locations. Using simulated trajectories generated from data carried out by an experimental vehicle in an area containing ground-truth traffic signs, we assess the influence of fleet size on the performance of crowdsourced mapping. The number of vehicles ranges from 5 to 50, and performance is analyzed using standard evaluation metrics which are compared to the GOSPAM . The results show that GOSPAM can be used to effectively assess the quality of crowdsourced mapping, such as the contributions made by the first vehicles or the improvements made by numerous vehicles.
ER -