# Cooperative LIDAR Object Detection via Feature Sharing in Deep Networks Source: [Cooperative LIDAR Object Detection via Feature Sharing in Deep Networks]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-28T13:56:41.942Z Authors: Ehsan Emad Marvasti, Arash Raftari, Amir Emad Marvasti, Yaser P. Fallah, Rui Guo, HongSheng Lu Published: 2020-02-19T20:47:09.000Z ## Abstract The recent advancements in communication and computational systems has led to significant improvement of situational awareness in connected and autonomous vehicles. Computationally efficient neural networks and high speed wireless vehicular networks have been some of the main contributors to this improvement. However, scalability and reliability issues caused by inherent limitations of sensory and communication systems are still challenging problems. In this paper, we aim to mitigate the effects of these limitations by introducing the concept of feature sharing for cooperative object detection (FS-COD). In our proposed approach, a better understanding of the environment is achieved by sharing partially processed data between cooperative vehicles while maintaining a balance between computation and communication load. This approach is different from current methods of map sharing, or sharing of raw data which are not scalable. The performance of the proposed approach is verified through experiments on Volony dataset. It is shown that the proposed approach has significant performance superiority over the conventional single-vehicle object detection approaches. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()