GAZE-BASED SENSOR DATA COMPRESSION FOR VEHICLE

A vehicle includes a sensor system including one or more individual sensors configured to capture sensor data, a driver camera configured to monitor a driver head position and a driver gaze vector indicating a direction of driver vision, and a data compression system including a computing device. The computing device is configured to perform operations including: receiving sensor data from each individual sensor, determining, by the driver camera, an instantaneous driver head position and driver gaze vector, determining, for each individual sensor, a region of interest (ROI) of the sensor data based on the instantaneous driver head position and driver gaze vector, and cropping the ROI for each individual sensor based on an intersection of the driver gaze vector with the determined ROI to thereby provide cropped sensor data with a reduced amount of sensor data from each individual sensor.