# FedBEVT: Federated Learning Bird's Eye View Perception Transformer in Road Traffic Systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01534 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.01534/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 55 of its 90 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Apr 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 55)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.05629/) (2016)
- [SGDR: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Warm Restarts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.03983/) (2016)
- [nuScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.11027/) (2019)
- [Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.04977/) (2019)
- [Federated Optimization in Heterogeneous Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.06127/) (2018)
- [CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.03938/) (2017)
- [BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17270/) (2022)
- [Lift, Splat, Shoot: Encoding Images From Arbitrary Camera Rigs by Implicitly Unprojecting to 3D](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.05711/) (2020)
- [Tackling the Objective Inconsistency Problem in Heterogeneous Federated Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.07481/) (2020)
- [BEVFusion: Multi-Task Multi-Sensor Fusion with Unified Bird's-Eye View Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.13542/) (2022)
- [LEAF: A Benchmark for Federated Settings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.01097/) (2018)
- [BEVDet: High-performance Multi-camera 3D Object Detection in Bird-Eye-View](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.11790/) (2021)
- [Federated Learning on Non-IID Data Silos: An Experimental Study](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.02079/) (2021)
- [PETR: Position Embedding Transformation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.05625/) (2022)
- [Federated Learning with Personalization Layers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.00818/) (2019)
- [Exploiting Shared Representations for Personalized Federated Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.07078/) (2021)
- [Deep Gradient Compression: Reducing the Communication Bandwidth for Distributed Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.01887/) (2017)
- [Towards Personalized Federated Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00710/) (2021)
- [PETRv2: A Unified Framework for 3D Perception from Multi-Camera Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.01256/) (2022)
- [Think Locally, Act Globally: Federated Learning with Local and Global Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.01523/) (2020)
- [V2X-ViT: Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception with Vision Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10638/) (2022)
- [OPV2V: An Open Benchmark Dataset and Fusion Pipeline for Perception with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.07644/) (2021)
- [Personalized Cross-Silo Federated Learning on Non-IID Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.03797/) (2020)
- [Improving Federated Learning Personalization via Model Agnostic Meta Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12488/) (2019)
- [Cross-view Transformers for real-time Map-view Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.02833/) (2022)
- [CoBEVT: Cooperative Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation with Sparse Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.02202/) (2022)
- [Personalized Federated Learning using Hypernetworks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.04628/) (2021)
- [BEVerse: Unified Perception and Prediction in Birds-Eye-View for Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09743/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [A Survey on Autonomous Driving Datasets: Statistics, Annotation Quality, and a Future Outlook](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.01454/) (2024)
- [Data-driven Traffic Simulation: A Comprehensive Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.15975/) (2023)
- [CoBEV: Elevating Roadside 3D Object Detection with Depth and Height Complementarity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.02815/) (2023)
- [Importance-Aware Adaptive Dataset Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.15863/) (2024)
- [Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.03525/) (2023)
- [A Survey on Intermediate Fusion Methods for Collaborative Perception Categorized by Real World Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.16139/) (2024)
- [OE-BevSeg: An Object Informed and Environment Aware Multimodal Framework for Bird's-eye-view Vehicle Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.13137/) (2024)
- [FedRSU: Federated Learning for Scene Flow Estimation on Roadside Units](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.12862/) (2024)
- [On the Federated Learning Framework for Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.17147/) (2024)
- [Towards One-shot Federated Learning: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.02426/) (2025)
- [RG-Attn: Radian Glue Attention for Multi-modality Multi-agent Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.16803/) (2025)
- [Enabling Federated Object Detection for Connected Autonomous Vehicles: A Deployment-Oriented Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.01868/) (2025)
- [DRCP: Diffusion on Reinforced Cooperative Perception for Perceiving Beyond Limits](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.24903/) (2025)
- [SimBEV2X: A Large-Scale Dataset and Data Generation Tool for Multi-Task Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.23910/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Bird's eye view (BEV) perception is becoming increasingly important in the field of autonomous driving. It uses multi-view camera data to learn a transformer model that directly projects the perception of the road environment onto the BEV perspective. However, training a transformer model often requires a large amount of data, and as camera data for road traffic are often private, they are typically not shared. Federated learning offers a solution that enables clients to collaborate and train models without exchanging data but model parameters. In this paper, we introduce FedBEVT, a federated transformer learning approach for BEV perception. In order to address two common data heterogeneity issues in FedBEVT: (i) diverse sensor poses, and (ii) varying sensor numbers in perception systems, we propose two approaches -- Federated Learning with Camera-Attentive Personalization (FedCaP) and Adaptive Multi-Camera Masking (AMCM), respectively. To evaluate our method in real-world settings, we create a dataset consisting of four typical federated use cases. Our findings suggest that FedBEVT outperforms the baseline approaches in all four use cases, demonstrating the potential of our approach for improving BEV perception in autonomous driving.