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Road-safety inspection is an indispensable instrument for reducing road-accident fatalities contributed to road infrastructure. Recent work formalizes road-safety assessment in terms of carefully selected risk factors that are also known as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Marin Kačan , Marko Ševrović , Siniša Šegvić

Recognizing a traffic accident is an essential part of any autonomous driving or road monitoring system. An accident can appear in a wide variety of forms, and understanding what type of accident is taking place may be useful to prevent it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Aaron Lohner , Francesco Compagno , Jonathan Francis , Alessandro Oltramari

Using the data from loop detector sensors for near-real-time detection of traffic incidents in highways is crucial to averting major traffic congestion. While recent supervised machine learning methods offer solutions to incident detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yixuan Sun , Tanwi Mallick , Prasanna Balaprakash , Jane Macfarlane

We consider analyzing traffic accident patterns using both road network data and satellite images aligned to road graph nodes. Previous work for predicting accident occurrences relies primarily on road network structural features while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ziniu Zhang , Minxuan Duan , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Hongyang R. Zhang

This work presents a novel video dataset recorded from overlapping highway traffic cameras along an urban interstate, enabling multi-camera 3D object tracking in a traffic monitoring context. Data is released from 3 scenes containing video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Derek Gloudemans , Yanbing Wang , Gracie Gumm , William Barbour , Daniel B. Work

Safe highway autonomy for heavy trucks remains an open and unsolved challenge: due to long braking distances, scene understanding of hundreds of meters is required for anticipatory planning and to allow safe braking margins. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Filippo Ghilotti , Edoardo Palladin , Samuel Brucker , Adam Sigal , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

The World Health Organization has listed the design of safer intersections as a key intervention to reduce global road trauma. This article presents the first study to systematically analyze the design of all intersections in a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jasper S. Wijnands , Haifeng Zhao , Kerry A. Nice , Jason Thompson , Katherine Scully , Jingqiu Guo , Mark Stevenson

Road traffic accidents represent a leading cause of mortality globally, with incidence rates rising due to increasing population, urbanization, and motorization. Rising accident rates raise concerns about traffic surveillance effectiveness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Tanu Singh , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Long T. Truong

Safety on roads is of uttermost importance, especially in the context of autonomous vehicles. A critical need is to detect and communicate disruptive incidents early and effectively. In this paper we propose a system based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Alex Levering , Martin Tomko , Devis Tuia , Kourosh Khoshelham

In the dynamic urban landscape, where the interplay of vehicles and pedestrians defines the rhythm of life, integrating advanced technology for safety and efficiency is increasingly crucial. This study delves into the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Victor Adewopo , Nelly Elsayed , Zag Elsayed , Murat Ozer , Constantinos Zekios , Ahmed Abdelgawad , Magdy Bayoumi

Intersections constitute one of the most dangerous elements in road systems. Traffic signals remain the most common way to control traffic at high-volume intersections and offer many opportunities to apply intelligent transportation systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Nicolas Saunier , Sophie Midenet

3D multi-object detection and tracking are crucial for traffic scene understanding. However, the community pays less attention to these areas due to the lack of a standardized benchmark dataset to advance the field. Moreover, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Abhishek Patil , Srikanth Malla , Haiming Gang , Yi-Ting Chen

Distracted driving is a leading cause of road accidents globally. Identification of distracted driving involves reliably detecting and classifying various forms of driver distraction (e.g., texting, eating, or using in-car devices) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ishwar B Balappanawar , Ashmit Chamoli , Ruwan Wickramarachchi , Aditya Mishra , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Amit P. Sheth

Contemporary deep-learning object detection methods for autonomous driving usually assume prefixed categories of common traffic participants, such as pedestrians and cars. Most existing detectors are unable to detect uncommon objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kaican Li , Kai Chen , Haoyu Wang , Lanqing Hong , Chaoqiang Ye , Jianhua Han , Yukuai Chen , Wei Zhang , Chunjing Xu , Dit-Yan Yeung , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Hang Xu

Prior art in traffic incident detection relies on high sensor coverage and is primarily based on decision-tree and random forest models that have limited representation capacity and, as a result, cannot detect incidents with high accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Sai Shashank Peddiraju , Kaustubh Harapanahalli , Edward Andert , Aviral Shrivastava

Due to its relevance in intelligent transportation systems, anomaly detection in traffic videos has recently received much interest. It remains a difficult problem due to a variety of factors influencing the video quality of a real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Keval Doshi , Yasin Yilmaz

Current perception models in autonomous driving have become notorious for greatly relying on a mass of annotated data to cover unseen cases and address the long-tail problem. On the other hand, learning from unlabeled large-scale collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiageng Mao , Minzhe Niu , Chenhan Jiang , Hanxue Liang , Jingheng Chen , Xiaodan Liang , Yamin Li , Chaoqiang Ye , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Jie Yu , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu

Car accidents remain a significant public safety issue worldwide, with the majority of them attributed to driver errors stemming from inadequate driving knowledge, non-compliance with regulations, and poor driving habits. To improve road…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Pooyan Khosravinia , Thinagaran Perumal , Javad Zarrin

According to data from the United Nations, more than 3000 people have died each day in the world due to road traffic collision. Considering recent researches, the human error may be considered as the main responsible for these fatalities.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Andrés E. Gómez , Tiago C. dos Santos , Carlos M. Massera , Arthur de M. Neto , Denis F. Wolf

A car driver knows how to react on the gestures of the traffic officers. Clearly, this is not the case for the autonomous vehicle, unless it has road traffic control gesture recognition functionalities. In this work, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Julian Wiederer , Arij Bouazizi , Ulrich Kressel , Vasileios Belagiannis