# AirV2X: Unified Air-Ground Vehicle-to-Everything Collaboration

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19283 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.19283/

## Key facts

- Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 48 of its 57 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Jun 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 48)

- [CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.03938/) (2017)
- [AirSim: High-Fidelity Visual and Physical Simulation for Autonomous Vehicles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.05065/) (2017)
- [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)
- [V2VNet: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for Joint Perception and Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.07519/) (2020)
- [DAIR-V2X: A Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05575/) (2022)
- [Where2comm: Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Spatial Confidence Maps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.12836/) (2022)
- [CoBEVT: Cooperative Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation with Sparse Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.02202/) (2022)
- [F-Cooper: Feature based Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Vehicle Edge Computing System Using 3D Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.06459/) (2019)
- [Cooper: Cooperative Perception for Connected Autonomous Vehicles based on 3D Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.05265/) (2019)
- [When2com: Multi-Agent Perception via Communication Graph Grouping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.00176/) (2020)
- [V2X-Sim: Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.08449/) (2022)
- [V2V4Real: A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.07601/) (2023)
- [Cooperative Perception for 3D Object Detection in Driving Scenarios using Infrastructure Sensors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.12147/) (2019)
- [COOPERNAUT: End-to-End Driving with Cooperative Perception for Networked Vehicles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.02222/) (2022)
- [An Extensible Framework for Open Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.13964/) (2024)
- [Perception and Sensing for Autonomous Vehicles Under Adverse Weather Conditions: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.08936/) (2021)
- [Collaboration Helps Camera Overtake LiDAR in 3D Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13560/) (2023)
- [TUMTraf V2X Cooperative Perception Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.01316/) (2024)
- [V2X-Real: a Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.16034/) (2024)
- [DSDNet: Deep Structured self-Driving Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.06041/) (2020)
- [Learning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Perception under Lossy Communication](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08273/) (2022)
- [V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.09251/) (2024)
- [STAMP: Scalable Task And Model-agnostic Collaborative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.18616/) (2025)
- [CORE: Cooperative Reconstruction for Multi-Agent Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.11514/) (2023)
- [RCooper: A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Roadside Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10145/) (2024)
- [Adaptive Feature Fusion for Cooperative Perception using LiDAR Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.00116/) (2022)
- [Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative 3D Object Detection via Feature Flow Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.10552/) (2023)
- [LangCoop: Collaborative Driving with Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13406/) (2025)
- [Depth Completion via Inductive Fusion of Planar LIDAR and Monocular Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.01875/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [Research Challenges and Progress in the End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Competition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.21610/) (2025)
- [Automated Vehicles Should be Connected with Natural Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.01059/) (2025)
- [Digital Twin AI: Opportunities and Challenges from Large Language Models to World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.01321/) (2026)
- [RDD: Retrieval-Based Demonstration Decomposer for Planner Alignment in Long-Horizon Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.14968/) (2025)
- [SafeCoop: Unravelling Full Stack Safety in Agentic Collaborative Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.18123/) (2025)
- [V2U4Real: A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-UAV Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.25275/) (2026)
- [Probabilistic Hyper-Graphs using Multiple Randomly Masked Autoencoders for Semi-supervised Multi-modal Multi-task Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.10068/) (2025)
- [OpenCOOD-Air: Prompting Heterogeneous Ground-Air Collaborative Perception with Spatial Conversion and Offset Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.13919/) (2026)
- [Adaptation-Free Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception with Unseen Agent Configurations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.26642/) (2026)
- [UAVs Meet Embodied Intelligence: Bridging Human Intents and Flying Dynamics Via Harnessing Physical-Digital AI Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.18326/) (2026)
- [AURORA: A Natural Language-Driven Agentic Framework for Understanding, Reasoning, and Orchestrating Reliable Air-Ground Co-Simulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.19527/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

While multi-vehicular collaborative driving demonstrates clear advantages over single-vehicle autonomy, traditional infrastructure-based V2X systems remain constrained by substantial deployment costs and the creation of "uncovered danger zones" in rural and suburban areas. We present AirV2X-Perception, a large-scale dataset that leverages Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as a flexible alternative or complement to fixed Road-Side Units (RSUs). Drones offer unique advantages over ground-based perception: complementary bird's-eye-views that reduce occlusions, dynamic positioning capabilities that enable hovering, patrolling, and escorting navigation rules, and significantly lower deployment costs compared to fixed infrastructure. Our dataset comprises 6.73 hours of drone-assisted driving scenarios across urban, suburban, and rural environments with varied weather and lighting conditions. The AirV2X-Perception dataset facilitates the development and standardized evaluation of Vehicle-to-Drone (V2D) algorithms, addressing a critical gap in the rapidly expanding field of aerial-assisted autonomous driving systems. The dataset and development kits are open-sourced at https://github.com/taco-group/AirV2X-Perception.