This dataset consists of training and test images for Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP) attributes. AusRAP attributes are shown below in Figure 1.
The dataset has been prepared by extracting roadside videos provided by the Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR), Queensland, Australia and the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). Thousands of real-world videos collected from a recent Digital Video Recording (DVR) survey, conducted on all state roads in Queensland, Australia were provided by industry partners, the DTMR, Queensland, and the ARRB. The images in this benchmark cover large variations in illuminance and weather conditions and include regions from different cities in Queensland, including both downtown regions and suburbs for each city. The video data contains four videos (left, right, front, rear) for each road. But only the images captured from the front camera have been used in this research. A MATLAB program is used to extract frames from video data. Each video has 500 frames, with each frame covering a 10-metre distance.
Samples for training, and testing were carefully selected from extracted frames avoiding consecutive scenes in these video sequences leading to many very similar images. Due to this reason, the appearances of an instance of a road safety object in the benchmark vary significantly. The road safety objects in successive shots are not related by a homography. Partially occluded or blurred objects are also included in the benchmark. To create the benchmark images, none of the images were cropped or subjected to any image processing.
Sample original images and their corresponding annotations are shown in Figure 2 below.
The dataset consists of 1141 color images (image size: 1600 Ă— 1200 pixels or 1600 Ă— 1184 pixels). There are 64 classes, and 27 images per class. There are 799 training images and 342 test images. Approximately, there are 20 samples for training and 7 samples for testing each attribute. Rare attributes such as sign 10, sign 20 and sign 30 have few samples for training, while attributes such as road and lane line were present in almost all the samples. Each attribute in the dataset is manually labelled pixel-wise using Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 software. Each attribute is allocated a separate RGB color not found in the background of these images. Annotated images are .bmp images with 32 bits while original images are .jpg images.
Here are the 64 classes in the dataset: