Summary of V-roast: a New Dataset For Visual Road Assessment, by Natchapon Jongwiriyanurak et al.
V-RoAst: A New Dataset for Visual Road Assessment
by Natchapon Jongwiriyanurak, Zichao Zeng, June Moh Goo, Xinglei Wang, Ilya Ilyankou, Kerkritt Srirrongvikrai, Meihui Wang, James Haworth
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents an innovative approach to road safety assessment using Vision Language Models (VLMs). The traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have limitations in this task. The new task, V-RoAst (Visual question answering for Road Assessment), is introduced along with a real-world dataset. The authors optimize prompt engineering and evaluate advanced VLMs like Gemini-1.5-flash and GPT-4o-mini to effectively examine attributes for road assessment. A scalable solution using crowdsourced imagery from Mapillary influentially estimates road safety levels, making it a cost-effective and automated method for global road safety assessments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how we can use computers to help make roads safer. Traditional methods are not working well enough, so researchers are trying something new. They’re using special computer models that can understand pictures and sentences. These models look at pictures of roads and try to figure out if they’re safe or not. This could be very helpful in places where it’s hard to get good information about road safety. It might even help save lives! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gemini » Gpt » Prompt » Question answering
