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We introduce RoadSocial, a large-scale, diverse VideoQA dataset tailored for generic road event understanding from social media narratives. Unlike existing datasets limited by regional bias, viewpoint bias and expert-driven annotations, RoadSocial captures the global complexity of road events with varied geographies, camera viewpoints (CCTV, handheld, drones) and rich social discourse. Our scalable semi-automatic annotation framework leverages Text LLMs and Video LLMs to generate comprehensive question-answer pairs across 12 challenging QA tasks, pushing the boundaries of road event understanding. RoadSocial is derived from social media videos spanning 14M frames and 414K social comments, resulting in a dataset with 13.2K videos, 674 tags and 260K high-quality QA pairs. We evaluate 18 Video LLMs (open-source and proprietary, driving-specific and general-purpose) on our road event understanding benchmark. We also demonstrate RoadSocial's utility in improving road event understanding capabilities of general-purpose Video LLMs.

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Motorized two-wheelers are a prevalent and economical means of transportation, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. However, hazardous driving practices such as triple riding and non-compliance with helmet regulations contribute significantly to accident rates. Addressing these violations through automated enforcement mechanisms can enhance traffic safety. In this paper, we propose DashCop, an end-to-end system for automated E-ticket generation. The system processes vehicle-mounted dashcam videos to detect two-wheeler traffic violations. Our contributions include: (1) a novel Segmentation and Cross-Association (SAC) module to accurately associate riders with their motorcycles, (2) a robust cross-association-based tracking algorithm optimized for the simultaneous presence of riders and motorcycles, and (3) the RideSafe-400 dataset, a comprehensive annotated dashcam video dataset for triple riding and helmet rule violations. Our system demonstrates significant improvements in violation detection, validated through extensive evaluations on the RideSafe-400 dataset.

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In this work, we present IDD-CRS, a large-scale dataset focused on critical road scenarios, captured using Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and dash cameras. Unlike existing datasets that predominantly emphasize pedestrian safety and vehicle safety separately, IDD-CRS incorporates both vehicle and pedestrian behaviors, offering a more comprehensive view of road safety. The dataset includes diverse scenarios, such as high-speed lane changes, unsafe vehicle approaches to pedestrians and cyclists, and complex interactions between ego vehicles and other road agents. Leveraging ADAS technology allows us to accurately define the temporal boundaries of actions, resulting in precise annotations and more reliable safety analysis. With 90 hours of video footage, consisting of 5400 one-minute-long videos and 135,000 frames, IDD-CRS introduces new vehicle related classes and hard negative classes, establishing baselines for action recognition and long-tail action recognition tasks. Our benchmarks reveal the limitations of current models, pointing toward future advancements needed for improving road safety technology.

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We introduce MoRAG, a novel multi-part fusion based retrieval-augmented generation strategy for text-based human motion generation. The method enhances motion diffusion models by leveraging additional knowledge obtained through an improved motion retrieval process. By effectively prompting large language models (LLMs), we address spelling errors and rephrasing issues in motion retrieval. Our approach utilizes a multi-part retrieval strategy to improve the generalizability of motion retrieval across the language space. We create diverse samples through the spatial composition of the retrieved motions. Furthermore, by utilizing low-level, part-specific motion information, we can construct motion samples for unseen text descriptions. Our experiments demonstrate that our framework can serve as a plug-and-play module, improving the performance of motion diffusion models. Code, pretrained models and sample videos will be made available at: https://motionrag.github.io/

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Provided a method of detecting and tracking a traffic violation of vehicle associated with user through a trapezium shaped object based representation using a deep learning model. The method includes (i) detecting the user and the vehicle to generate a first rectangular bounding box and a second rectangular bounding box of a video, (ii) training the deep learning model by correlating historical trapezium based representations with historical rectangular bounding boxes over historical vehicles, and historical users, (ii) determining a trapezium based representation based on the bounding boxes, (iv) detecting a traffic violation of the vehicle by determining (a) triple-riding violation, if maximum number of intersection of units (IoU) are found by counting the first rectangular bounding box and the second rectangular bounding box, (b) a helmet violation by determining the user without a helmet, and (v) tracking 10 the vehicle that performs the traffic violation based on corresponding trapezium based representation.

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Crack segmentation plays a crucial role in ensuring the structural integrity and seismic safety of civil structures. However, existing crack segmentation algorithms encounter challenges in maintaining accuracy with domain shifts across datasets. To address this issue, we propose a novel deep network that employs incremental training with unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) using adversarial learning, without a significant drop in accuracy in the source domain. Our approach leverages an encoder-decoder architecture, consisting of both domain-invariant and domain-specific parameters. The encoder learns shared crack features across all domains, ensuring robustness to domain variations. Simultaneously, the decoder's domain-specific parameters capture domain-specific features unique to each domain. By combining these components, our model achieves improved crack segmentation performance. Furthermore, we introduce BuildCrack, a new crack dataset comparable to sub-datasets of the well-established CrackSeg9K dataset in terms of image count and crack percentage. We evaluate our proposed approach against state-of-the-art UDA methods using different sub-datasets of CrackSeg9K and our custom dataset. Our experimental results demonstrate a significant improvement in crack segmentation accuracy and generalization across target domains compared to other UDA methods - specifically, an improvement of 0.65 and 2.7 mIoU on source and target domains respectively. Code, models, and dataset will be made available.

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This work presents a novel approach to identifying possible early accident-prone zones in a large city-scale road network using geo-tagged collision alert data from a vehicle fleet. The alert data has been collected for a year from 200 city buses installed with the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). To the best of our knowledge, no research paper has used ADAS alerts to identify the early accident prone zones. A nonparametric technique called Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) is employed to model the distribution of alert data across stratified time intervals. A novel recall-based measure is introduced to assess the degree of support provided by our density-based approach for existing, manually determined accident-prone zones (‘blackspots’) provided by civic authorities. This shows that our KDE approach significantly outperforms existing approaches in terms of the recall-based measure. Introducing a novel linear assignment Earth Mover Distance based measure to predict previously unidentified accident-prone zones. The results and findings support the feasibility of utilizing alert data from vehicle fleets to aid civic planners in assessing accident-zone trends and deploying traffic calming measures, thereby improving overall road safety and saving lives.

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Intelligent vehicle systems require a deep understanding of the interplay between road conditions, surrounding entities, and the ego vehicle's driving behavior for safe and efficient navigation. This is particularly critical in developing countries where traffic situations are often dense and unstructured with heterogeneous road occupants. Existing datasets, predominantly geared towards structured and sparse traffic scenarios, fall short of capturing the complexity of driving in such environments. To fill this gap, we present IDD-X, a large-scale dual-view driving video dataset. With 697K bounding boxes, 9K important object tracks, and 1-12 objects per video, IDD-X offers comprehensive ego-relative annotations for multiple important road objects covering 10 categories and 19 explanation label categories. The dataset also incorporates rearview information to provide a more complete representation of the driving environment. We also introduce custom-designed deep networks aimed at multiple important object localization and per-object explanation prediction. Overall, our dataset and introduced prediction models form the foundation for studying how road conditions and surrounding entities affect driving behavior in complex traffic situations.

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The convergence of computer vision and advertising has sparked substantial interest lately. Existing advertisement datasets are either subsets of existing datasets with specialized annotations or feature diverse annotations without a cohesive taxonomy among ad images. Notably, no datasets encompass diverse advertisement styles or semantic grouping at various levels of granularity. Our work addresses this gap by introducing MAdVerse, an extensive, multilingual compilation of more than 50,000 ads from the web, social media websites, and e-newspapers. Advertisements are hierarchically grouped with uniform granularity into 11 categories, divided into 51 sub-categories, and 524 fine-grained brands at leaf level, each featuring ads in various languages. We provide comprehensive baseline classification results for prediction tasks within the realm of advertising analysis. These tasks include hierarchical ad classification, source classification, multilingual classification, and inducing hierarchy in existing ad datasets.