V2vnet: Vehicle-to-vehicle communication for joint perception and prediction

TH Wang, S Manivasagam, M Liang, B Yang… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
Computer Vision–ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23–28 …, 2020Springer
In this paper, we explore the use of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication to improve the
perception and motion forecasting performance of self-driving vehicles. By intelligently
aggregating the information received from multiple nearby vehicles, we can observe the
same scene from different viewpoints. This allows us to see through occlusions and detect
actors at long range, where the observations are very sparse or non-existent. We also show
that our approach of sending compressed deep feature map activations achieves high …
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the use of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication to improve the perception and motion forecasting performance of self-driving vehicles. By intelligently aggregating the information received from multiple nearby vehicles, we can observe the same scene from different viewpoints. This allows us to see through occlusions and detect actors at long range, where the observations are very sparse or non-existent. We also show that our approach of sending compressed deep feature map activations achieves high accuracy while satisfying communication bandwidth requirements.
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