Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

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Vehicles, robots, and drones use collaborative perception to reveal objects or scene details that a single agent may miss, especially under occlusion. To limit bandwidth, systems selectively transmit salient regions, instances, or object-level messages, or compress features with sparse encoding, quantization, and learned reconstruction; agents then fuse the received evidence. Work is evaluated on cooperative driving benchmarks such as OPV2V and DAIR-V2X, with increasing attention to heterogeneous sensors, latency, packet loss, and real-world deployment. The central tension is how to preserve complementary, well-aligned evidence and robust performance when communication budgets and network conditions are tight.

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  1. CoCam4D: Geometry-Aware Cooperative 4D Perception for Camera-Only Autonomous Driving

    Oct 8, 2026Soham Pahari, Sudip Das, Arindam Das +1Autonomous Driving PerceptionCooperative Perception

    University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun · Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata · anSWer India, Valeo Brain

  2. LR-V2X: Loss-Resilient Collaborative Perception under Low-Bandwidth Communication

    Oct 8, 2026Kang Yang, Tianci Bu, Peng Wang +2Cooperative PerceptionCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    Renmin University of China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) · Hebei Key Laboratory of Real-virtual Integrated Autonomous Systems (RIAS)

  3. Sparse2comm: Towards Robust Cooperative 3D Object Detection

    Oct 6, 2026Lei Yang, Boqi Li, Chunmian Lin +6Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionAutonomous Driving Perception

    University of Hong Kong, China

  4. SemRD-V2X: Closure-Guided Communication with Bounded Inference for Cooperative Perception

    Sep 28, 2026Hu Xu, Chun Li, Siyuan Qiu +2Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionRate-Distortion Optimization

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  5. SV2V-RSim: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Self-Selective V2V Cooperative Perception with Near-Realistic Data

    Sep 26, 2026Yulu Wu, Chao Wei, Jujun Cheng +6Cooperative PerceptionAutonomous Driving Datasets

    Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Anhui University, Hefei, China · University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

  6. Dense Coverage, Sparse Refinement: Byte-Constrained Cooperative Perception

    Sep 24, 2026Melih Yazgan, Timon Müller, J. Marius ZöllnerCommunication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionV2X Communication

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  7. Latent Telepathy: Multi-Robot Communication with Self-Supervised Perceptual Latents

    Sep 20, 2026Howard Wang, Han Zheng, Cathy WuMulti-Robot SystemsDecentralized MARL

    Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  8. CoAdapt: An LLM-based Framework for Adaptive Collaborative Perception in IIoT Robotic Swarms

    Sep 15, 2026Houssam Hajj Hassan, Antonia Maria Masucci, Lynda Zitoune +1Swarm RoboticsCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    L2S

  9. CERF: Communication-Efficient and Retraining-Free Collaborative Perception

    Sep 1, 2026Jiuwu Hao, Ziyi Ni, Liguo Sun +5Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionAutonomous Driving Perception

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  10. Fleets Need a Context Plane: Rethinking Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Drones

    Sep 1, 2026Liangkai Liu, Xiaoxiao WuAerial RoboticsCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

  11. CST: Collaborative Selective Transmission for Communication-Efficient Multimodal Edge Inference

    Aug 22, 2026Hai Chi, Junrui Zhang, Rui Ning +4Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionEdge Inference

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA · Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA · InterDigital, Conshohocken, PA, USA

  12. G-MARK: Grounded Multi-Agent Reasoning for Cooperative Driving via Knowledge Graphs

    Aug 20, 2026Bhavya Gupta, Onat Gungor, Tajana RosingMulti-Agent ReasoningCooperative Perception

    University of California, San Diego, CA, USA · West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

  13. Communication-Efficient Relative Pose Estimation with Vision Foundation Models for Ephemeral Collaborative Perception

    Jul 16, 2026Qihang Li, Jo-Hao Huang, Jiewen Liu +3Relative Pose EstimationMulti-Robot Systems

    North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. · University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002, USA.

  14. Sparse-Aware Vector Quantization for Bandwidth-Efficient Collaborative 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

    Jul 2, 2026Feng Li, Chaokun Zhang, Gong ChenCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception3D Occupancy Prediction

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · School of Cybersecurity, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  15. HydraCollab: Adaptive Collaborative-Perception for Distributed Autonomous Systems

    Jun 30, 2026Luke Chen, Cheng-Ju Wu, David R. Martin +3Multi-Robot SystemsCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA.

  16. INTACT: Ego-Guided Typed Sparse Evidence Retrieval for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception

    Jun 3, 2026Chen Li, Shengrong Yuan, Jialong Zuo +3Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    National Key Laboratory of Multispectral Information Intelligent Processing Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang Normal University

  17. Adaptation-Free Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception with Unseen Agent Configurations

    May 26, 2026Hyunchul Bae, Heejin AhnZero-Shot LearningCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    School of Electrical Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Korea 34141

  18. CooperDrive: Enhancing Driving Decisions Through Cooperative Perception

    Apr 15, 2026Deyuan Qu, Qi Chen, Takayuki Shimizu +1Cooperative PerceptionCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    Toyota InfoTech Labs, Mountain View, CA, USA

  19. Reason-to-Transmit: Deliberative Adaptive Communication for Cooperative Perception

    Mar 19, 2026Aayam Bansal, Ishaan GangwaniCommunication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    Synthetic Sciences

  20. Leveraging Large Vision Model for Multi-UAV Co-perception in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks

    Mar 13, 2026Yunting Xu, Jiacheng Wang, Ruichen Zhang +6Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798 · Alibaba Cloud, Hangzhou, China, 311121 · School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 210023 +1

  21. WaveComm: Lightweight Communication for Collaborative Perception via Wavelet Feature Distillation

    Mar 9, 2026Erdemt Bao, Jin YangCommunication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China. · National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi 710049, China.

  22. EIMC: Efficient Instance-aware Multi-modal Collaborative Perception

    Mar 3, 2026Kang Yang, Peng Wang, Lantao Li +4Cooperative PerceptionCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 100872 · Sony Research and Development Center China, Beijing, China · National University of Defense Technology, Hunan, China, 410073

  23. WhisperNet: A Scalable Solution for Bandwidth-Efficient Collaboration

    Mar 2, 2026Gong Chen, Chaokun Zhang, Xinyan ZhaoCommunication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University · School of Cybersecurity, Tianjin University

  24. CoLC: Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception with LiDAR Completion

    Feb 28, 2026Yushan Han, Hui Zhang, Qiming Xia +2Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    Key Laboratory of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence in Transportation, Ministry of Education · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University · Xiamen University

  25. Linking Modality Isolation in Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception

    Feb 28, 2026Changxing Liu, Zichen Chao, Siheng ChenCross-Modal AlignmentHeterogeneous Collaborative Perception

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  26. Send Less, Perceive More: Masked Quantized Point Cloud Communication for Loss-Tolerant Collaborative Perception

    Feb 25, 2026Sheng Xu, Enshu Wang, Hongfei Xue +6Communication-Efficient Collaborative PerceptionCooperative Perception

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, China · University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA · Wuhan University of Technology, China +2