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RC-GeoCP: Geometric Consensus for Radar-Camera Collaborative Perception

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

Collaborative perception (CP) enhances scene understanding through multi-agent information sharing. While LiDAR-centric systems offer precise geometry, high costs and performance degradation in adverse weather necessitate multi-modal alternatives. Despite dense visual semantics and robust spatial measurements, the synergy between cameras and 4D radar remains underexplored in collaborative settings. This work introduces RC-GeoCP, the first framework to explore the fusion of 4D radar and images in CP. To resolve misalignment caused by depth ambiguity and spatial dispersion across agents, RC-GeoCP establishes a radar-anchored geometric consensus. Specifically, Geometric Structure Rectification (GSR) aligns visual semantics with geometry derived from radar to generate spatially grounded, geometry-consistent representations. Uncertainty-Aware Communication (UAC) formulates selective transmission as a conditional entropy reduction process to prioritize informative features based on inter-agent disagreement. Finally, the Consensus-Driven Assembler (CDA) aggregates multi-agent information via shared geometric anchors to form a globally coherent representation. We establish the first unified radar-camera CP benchmark on V2X-Radar and V2X-R, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance with significantly reduced communication overhead. Code will be released soon.

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@article{arxiv.2603.00654,
  title  = {RC-GeoCP: Geometric Consensus for Radar-Camera Collaborative Perception},
  author = {Xiaokai Bai and Lianqing Zheng and Runwei Guan and Siyuan Cao and Huiliang Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00654},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

18 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables

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