ReSMap: Recasting Satellite Priors for Robust and Accurate Online HD Map Construction
Abstract
Despite recent advances in camera-based online HD map construction, these systems remain susceptible to sensor failures due to their reliance on onboard cameras. In contrast, satellite images remain available independently of real-time sensing conditions as they are cached offline. Existing methods utilizing satellite images, however, primarily leverage them under nominal conditions, without explicitly addressing as redundancy when sensor degrades. To address this gap, we propose ReSMap, a redundancy-aware camera-satellite fusion framework for robust online HD map construction. Our framework explicitly leverages satellite images as a complementary source to improve robustness against camera failures. A Predict-then-Fuse (PTF) module fuses camera and satellite BEV features by using each branch's own prediction confidence as a per-pixel reliability weight, with no learned router. An Object-centric cooperative Multi-modal Query (OCMQ) decoder then propagates this isolation to the query level: each modality cross-attends only to its own BEV, and per-modality updates are merged through a learned per-token gate. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on nuScenes across all splits and range settings. More importantly, it also sets the new state-of-the-art under camera-failure scenarios, demonstrating that satellite images serve not only as a strong prior but as practical redundancy for robust online HD mapping.