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This research addresses a critical bottleneck in autonomous driving by optimizing how vehicles exchange sensor data over congested networks. The proposed HMS-SCP framework uses semantic communication to drastically reduce bandwidth usage while maintaining safety-critical detection accuracy under severe channel noise and high-density traffic conditions. By enabling reliable cooperative perception with ultra-low latency, this work advances the practical deployment of intelligent transportation systems without relying on excessive network capacity.
Extend the Safety Horizon for Intelligent Transportation Systems through Semantic-Aware Cooperative Perception
arXiv:2608.14603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative perception enables vehicles and infrastructure to exchange sensor data via Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, extending sensing coverage beyond occlusions and mitigating blind spots. While critical for autonomous driving and safety, practical deployments often rely on bandwidth-efficient late fusion. Recently, intermediate fusion has emerged as a promising approach for an optimal bandwidth-accuracy trade-off. However, in dense urban environments, cumulative bandwidth demands can overwhelm network capacity, potentially compromising safety-critical Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) functions. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes Hierarchical Multi-Scale Semantic-Aware Cooperative Perception (HMS-SCP), a robust noise-resilient and bandwidth-efficient framework for task-oriented semantic communication in cooperative perception. HMS-SCP employs a spatial importance predictor to identify task-relevant grid elements at each scale, which are then directly mapped into complex-valued symbols for Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC). Unlike prior methods that rely on high-dimensional symbol projections for robustness, HMS-SCP exploits structural semantic redundancy across multiple scales to enhance resilience against channel noise, while maintaining an ultra-low symbol rate. This design significantly reduces bandwidth consumption and mitigates network congestion in high-density vehicular environments. Extensive evaluations on the simulated OPV2V and real-world DAIR-V2X datasets demonstrate that HMS-SCP effectively prevents performance collapse under severe Rayleigh fading and extreme compression ratio, maintaining high-confidence far-field detection with a real-time latency of below 16~ms, well within the safety-critical thresholds for dynamic V2X environments.
Abstract:Cooperative perception enables vehicles and infrastructure to exchange sensor data via Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, extending sensing coverage beyond occlusions and mitigating blind spots. While critical for autonomous driving and safety, practical deployments often rely on bandwidth-efficient late fusion. Recently, intermediate fusion has emerged as a promising approach for an optimal bandwidth-accuracy trade-off. However, in dense urban environments, cumulative bandwidth demands can overwhelm network capacity, potentially compromising safety-critical Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) functions. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes Hierarchical Multi-Scale Semantic-Aware Cooperative Perception (HMS-SCP), a robust noise-resilient and bandwidth-efficient framework for task-oriented semantic communication in cooperative perception. HMS-SCP employs a spatial importance predictor to identify task-relevant grid elements at each scale, which are then directly mapped into complex-valued symbols for Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC). Unlike prior methods that rely on high-dimensional symbol projections for robustness, HMS-SCP exploits structural semantic redundancy across multiple scales to enhance resilience against channel noise, while maintaining an ultra-low symbol rate. This design significantly reduces bandwidth consumption and mitigates network congestion in high-density vehicular environments. Extensive evaluations on the simulated OPV2V and real-world DAIR-V2X datasets demonstrate that HMS-SCP effectively prevents performance collapse under severe Rayleigh fading and extreme compression ratio, maintaining high-confidence far-field detection with a real-time latency of below 16~ms, well within the safety-critical thresholds for dynamic V2X environments.
Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Information Theory (cs.IT)
arXiv:2608.14603 [cs.NI]
(or arXiv:2608.14603v1 [cs.NI] for this version)
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