# Task-Oriented Communication for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Cooperative Perception

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20748 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.20748/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 30 Jul 2024.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) cooperative perception plays a crucial role in autonomous driving scenarios. Despite its potential to improve perception accuracy and robustness, the large amount of raw sensor data inevitably results in high communication overhead. To mitigate this issue, we propose TOCOM-V2I, a task-oriented communication framework for V2I cooperative perception, which reduces bandwidth consumption by transmitting only task-relevant information, instead of the raw data stream, for perceiving the surrounding environment. Our contributions are threefold. First, we propose a spatial-aware feature selection module to filter out irrelevant information based on spatial relationships and perceptual prior. Second, we introduce a hierarchical entropy model to exploit redundancy within the features for efficient compression and transmission. Finally, we utilize a scaled dot-product attention architecture to fuse vehicle-side and infrastructure-side features to improve perception performance. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of TOCOM-V2I.