EIMC: Efficient Instance-aware Multi-modal Collaborative Perception

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Hauptverfasser: Yang, Kang, Wang, Peng, Li, Lantao, Bu, Tianci, Sun, Chen, Li, Deying, Wang, Yongcai
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author Yang, Kang
Wang, Peng
Li, Lantao
Bu, Tianci
Sun, Chen
Li, Deying
Wang, Yongcai
author_facet Yang, Kang
Wang, Peng
Li, Lantao
Bu, Tianci
Sun, Chen
Li, Deying
Wang, Yongcai
contents 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 and needs high bandwidth to transmit an individual's feature data before collaborative fusion. EIMC innovatively proposes an early collaborative paradigm. It injects lightweight collaborative voxels, transmitted by neighbor agents, into the ego's local modality-fusion step, yielding compact yet informative 3D collaborative priors that tighten cross-modal alignment. Next, a heatmap-driven consensus protocol identifies exactly where cooperation is needed by computing per-pixel confidence heatmaps. Only the Top-K instance vectors located in these low-confidence, high-discrepancy regions are queried from peers, then fused via cross-attention for completion. Afterwards, we apply a refinement fusion that involves collecting the top-K most confident instances from each agent and enhancing their features using self-attention. The above instance-centric messaging reduces redundancy while guaranteeing that critical occluded objects are recovered. Evaluated on OPV2V and DAIR-V2X, EIMC attains 73.01\% AP@0.5 while reducing byte bandwidth usage by 87.98\% compared with the best published multi-modal collaborative detector. Code publicly released at https://github.com/sidiangongyuan/EIMC.
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spellingShingle EIMC: Efficient Instance-aware Multi-modal Collaborative Perception
Yang, Kang
Wang, Peng
Li, Lantao
Bu, Tianci
Sun, Chen
Li, Deying
Wang, Yongcai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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 and needs high bandwidth to transmit an individual's feature data before collaborative fusion. EIMC innovatively proposes an early collaborative paradigm. It injects lightweight collaborative voxels, transmitted by neighbor agents, into the ego's local modality-fusion step, yielding compact yet informative 3D collaborative priors that tighten cross-modal alignment. Next, a heatmap-driven consensus protocol identifies exactly where cooperation is needed by computing per-pixel confidence heatmaps. Only the Top-K instance vectors located in these low-confidence, high-discrepancy regions are queried from peers, then fused via cross-attention for completion. Afterwards, we apply a refinement fusion that involves collecting the top-K most confident instances from each agent and enhancing their features using self-attention. The above instance-centric messaging reduces redundancy while guaranteeing that critical occluded objects are recovered. Evaluated on OPV2V and DAIR-V2X, EIMC attains 73.01\% AP@0.5 while reducing byte bandwidth usage by 87.98\% compared with the best published multi-modal collaborative detector. Code publicly released at https://github.com/sidiangongyuan/EIMC.
title EIMC: Efficient Instance-aware Multi-modal Collaborative Perception
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02532