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Collaborative perception shares information among different agents and helps solving problems that individual agents may face, e.g., occlusions and small sensing range. Prior methods usually separate the multi-agent fusion and multi-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zongheng Tang , Yi Liu , Yifan Sun , Yulu Gao , Jinyu Chen , Runsheng Xu , Si Liu

The detection of non-cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents significant challenges for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems due to the inherent limitations of single-modal perception and the competition for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wenfeng Wu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is a fundamental task in multi-modal perception that aims to integrate complementary structural and textural cues from different spectral domains. In this paper, we propose FusionNet, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tianyao Sun , Dawei Xiang , Tianqi Ding , Xiang Fang , Yijiashun Qi , Zunduo Zhao

Fusing the camera and LiDAR information has become a de-facto standard for 3D object detection tasks. Current methods rely on point clouds from the LiDAR sensor as queries to leverage the feature from the image space. However, people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Tingting Liang , Hongwei Xie , Kaicheng Yu , Zhongyu Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Tao Tang , Bing Wang , Zhi Tang

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a promising technology for extending the coverage of 5G and 6G networks in a cost-effective manner. Additionally, Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) serves as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Byunghyun Lee , Andrew Marcum , David Love , James Krogmeier

Road terrains play a crucial role in ensuring the driving safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, existing sensors of AVs, including cameras and Lidars, are susceptible to variations in lighting and weather conditions, making it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Rui Wang , Shichun Yang , Yuyi Chen , Zhuoyang Li , Zexiang Tong , Jianyi Xu , Jiayi Lu , Xinjie Feng , Yaoguang Cao

Cooperative perception allows a Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) to interact with the other CAVs in the vicinity to enhance perception of surrounding objects to increase safety and reliability. It can compensate for the limitations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Donghao Qiao , Farhana Zulkernine

LiDAR and camera are two essential sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. LiDAR provides accurate and reliable 3D geometry information while the camera provides rich texture with color. Despite the increasing popularity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qi Jiang , Hao Sun , Xi Zhang

To reduce the amount of transmitted data, feature map based fusion is recently proposed as a practical solution to cooperative 3D object detection by autonomous vehicles. The precision of object detection, however, may require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Jingda Guo , Dominic Carrillo , Sihai Tang , Qi Chen , Qing Yang , Song Fu , Xi Wang , Nannan Wang , Paparao Palacharla

The development of the low-altitude economy has led to a growing prominence of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety management issues. Therefore, accurate identification, real-time localization, and effective countermeasures have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Fangquan Ye , Jingbo Xu , Tao Song , Weidong Li , Yu Su , Lu Peng , Xiaomei Wu , Tong Qin , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

Recent advances in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have enabled their widespread deployment in critical applications such as emergency management. This paper investigates the challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ziji Guo , Haonan Tong , Zhilong Zhang , Danpu Liu

As the number of heterogeneous redundant sensors on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) increases, onboard sensors require a more rational and efficient credibility evaluation system and a resilient fusion framework to achieve the essence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Ye Xiaoyu , Song Fujun , Zhu Xiaohu , Zeng Qinghua

Collaborative perception significantly enhances individual vehicle perception performance through the exchange of sensory information among agents. However, real-world deployment faces challenges due to bandwidth constraints and inevitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Bingyi Liu , Jian Teng , Hongfei Xue , Enshu Wang , Chuanhui Zhu , Pu Wang , Libing Wu

Multi-modal collaborative perception calls for great attention to enhancing the safety of autonomous driving. However, current multi-modal approaches remain a ``local fusion to communication'' sequence, which fuses multi-modal data locally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kang Yang , Peng Wang , Lantao Li , Tianci Bu , Chen Sun , Deying Li , Yongcai Wang

Collaborative perception allows agents to enhance their perceptual capabilities by exchanging intermediate features. Existing methods typically organize these intermediate features as 2D bird's-eye-view (BEV) representations, which discard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yang Li , Quan Yuan , Guiyang Luo , Xiaoyuan Fu , Rui Pan , Yujia Yang , Congzhang Shao , Yuewen Liu , Jinglin Li

The proposal introduces an innovative drone swarm perception system that aims to solve problems related to computational limitations and low-bandwidth communication, and real-time scene reconstruction. The framework enables efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Massoud Pourmandi

Multi-agent collaborative perception could significantly upgrade the perception performance by enabling agents to share complementary information with each other through communication. It inevitably results in a fundamental trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yue Hu , Shaoheng Fang , Zixing Lei , Yiqi Zhong , Siheng Chen

Sharing and joint processing of camera feeds and sensor measurements, known as Cooperative Perception (CP), has emerged as a new technique to achieve higher perception qualities. CP can enhance the safety of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ahmad Sarlak , Hazim Alzorgan , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Abolfazl Razi , Rahul Amin

Temporal perception, defined as the capability to detect and track objects across temporal sequences, serves as a fundamental component in autonomous driving systems. While single-vehicle perception systems encounter limitations, stemming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhenwei Yang , Jilei Mao , Wenxian Yang , Yibo Ai , Yu Kong , Haibao Yu , Weidong Zhang

Connected vehicles, whether equipped with advanced driver-assistance systems or fully autonomous, require human driver supervision and are currently constrained to visual information in their line-of-sight. A cooperative perception system…