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arXiv Computer Vision By Zhen Xu, Jinsu Yoo, Cristian Bautista, Zanming Huang, Tai-Yu Pan, Zhenzhen Liu, Katie Z Luo, Mark Campbell, Bharath Hariharan, Wei-Lun Chao

When the City Teaches the Car: Label-Free 3D Perception from Infrastructure

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The paper proposes a label‑free 3D perception framework where roadside units (RSUs) act as unsupervised teachers for self‑driving cars. RSUs learn local 3D detectors from unlabeled data and broadcast predictions to passing vehicles, which use these as pseudo‑labels to train an ego‑centric detector. In a CARLA simulation, the method achieves 82.3% AP for vehicle detection, approaching a fully supervised upper bound of 94.4%, and demonstrates scalability and complementarity with existing ego‑centric approaches.

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