Chen Sun

Kang Yang, Peng Wang, Lantao Li et al.

Multi-modal collaborative perception calls for great attention to enhancing the safety of autonomous driving. However, current multi-modal approaches remain a ``local fusion to communication'' sequence, which fuses multi-modal data locally and needs high bandwidth to transmit an individual's feature data before collaborative fusion. EIMC innovatively proposes an early collaborative paradigm. It injects lightweight collaborative voxels, transmitted by neighbor agents, into the ego's local modality-fusion step, yielding compact yet informative 3D collaborative priors that tighten cross-modal alignment. Next, a heatmap-driven consensus protocol identifies exactly where cooperation is needed by computing per-pixel confidence heatmaps. Only the Top-K instance vectors located in these low-confidence, high-discrepancy regions are queried from peers, then fused via cross-attention for completion. Afterwards, we apply a refinement fusion that involves collecting the top-K most confident instances from each agent and enhancing their features using self-attention. The above instance-centric messaging reduces redundancy while guaranteeing that critical occluded objects are recovered. Evaluated on OPV2V and DAIR-V2X, EIMC attains 73.01\% AP@0.5 while reducing byte bandwidth usage by 87.98\% compared with the best published multi-modal collaborative detector. Code publicly released at https://github.com/sidiangongyuan/EIMC.

Junyi Zhang, Charles Herrmann, Junhwa Hur et al.

Feedforward geometric foundation models achieve strong short-window reconstruction, yet scaling them to minutes-long videos is bottlenecked by quadratic attention complexity or limited effective memory in recurrent designs. We present LoGeR (Long-context Geometric Reconstruction), a novel architecture that scales dense 3D reconstruction to extremely long sequences without post-optimization. LoGeR processes video streams in chunks, leveraging strong bidirectional priors for high-fidelity intra-chunk reasoning. To manage the critical challenge of coherence across chunk boundaries, we propose a learning-based hybrid memory module. This dual-component system combines a parametric Test-Time Training (TTT) memory to anchor the global coordinate frame and prevent scale drift, alongside a non-parametric Sliding Window Attention (SWA) mechanism to preserve uncompressed context for high-precision adjacent alignment. Remarkably, this memory architecture enables LoGeR to be trained on sequences of 128 frames, and generalize up to thousands of frames during inference. Evaluated across standard benchmarks and a newly repurposed VBR dataset with sequences of up to 19k frames, LoGeR substantially outperforms prior state-of-the-art feedforward methods--reducing ATE on KITTI by over 74%--and achieves robust, globally consistent reconstruction over unprecedented horizons.