Jiaming Zhong

Minghao Ning, Yufeng Yang, Keqi Shu et al.

Vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) cooperative perception can substantially extend the range, coverage, and robustness of autonomous driving systems beyond the limits of onboard-only sensing, particularly in occluded and adverse-weather environments. However, its practical value is still difficult to quantify because existing benchmarks do not adequately capture large-scale multi-node deployments, realistic communication conditions, and adverse-weather operation. This paper presents CoInfra, a deployable cooperative infrastructure perception platform comprising 14 roadside sensor nodes connected through a commercial 5G network, together with a large-scale dataset and an open-source system stack for V2I cooperation research. The system supports synchronized multi-node sensing and delay-aware fusion under real 5G communication constraints. The released dataset covers an eight-node urban roundabout under four weather conditions (sunny, rainy, heavy snow, and freezing rain) and contains 294k LiDAR frames, 589k camera images, and 332k globally consistent 3D bounding boxes. It also includes a synchronized V2I subset collected with an autonomous vehicle. Beyond standard perception benchmarks, we further evaluate whether infrastructure sensing improves awareness of safety-critical traffic participants during roundabout interactions. In structured conflict scenarios, V2I cooperation increases critical-frame completeness from 33%-46% with vehicle-only sensing to 86%-100%. These results show that multi-node infrastructure perception can significantly improve situational awareness in conflict-rich traffic scenarios where vehicle-only sensing is most limited.

Xinan He, Kaiqing Lin, Yue Zhou et al.

With the rapid advancement of video generation models such as Veo and Wan, the visual quality of synthetic content has reached a level where macro-level semantic errors and temporal inconsistencies are no longer prominent. However, this does not imply that the distinction between real and cutting-edge high-fidelity fake is untraceable. We argue that AI-generated videos are essentially products of a manifold-fitting process rather than a physical recording. Consequently, the pixel composition logic of consecutive adjacent frames residual in AI videos exhibits a structured and homogenous characteristic. We term this phenomenon `Manifold Projection Fluctuations' (MPF). Driven by this insight, we propose a hierarchical dual-path framework that operates as a sequential filtering process. The first, the Static Manifold Deviation Branch, leverages the refined perceptual boundaries of Large-Scale Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) to capture residual spatial anomalies or physical violations that deviate from the natural real-world manifold (off-manifold). For the remaining high-fidelity videos that successfully reside on-manifold and evade spatial detection, we introduce the Micro-Temporal Fluctuation Branch as a secondary, fine-grained filter. By analyzing the structured MPF that persists even in visually perfect sequences, our framework ensures that forgeries are exposed regardless of whether they manifest as global real-world manifold deviations or subtle computational fingerprints.