The ROAD Challenge: Event Detection for Situation Awareness in Autonomous Driving
Co-hosted by ICCV 2021
07AM-15PM, October 16 , virtual
Workshop Agenda
Overview
This includes the following tasks:
• Detecting and modelling ‘atomic’ events, intended as simple actions performed by a single agent. • Detecting and modelling complex activities, contributed to by several agents over an extended period of time. • Predicting agent intentions. • Predicting the trajectory of pedestrians, vehicles and other road users. • Forecasting future road events (both atomic and complex). • Based on all these elements, deciding what action the autonomous vehicle should perform next. • Modelling the reasoning processes of road agents in terms of goals or mental states. • Realistic simulation to generate training data for road event action detection.
We invite both paper contributions on these topics, as well as submissions of entries to a challenge specifically designed to test situation awareness capabilities in autonomous vehicles.
*Paper submission deadline extension to 5-September!*Notificatio of acceptance/rejection and the best paper is issued!
The accurate detection and anticipation of actions performed by multiple road agents (pedestrians, vehicles, cyclists and so on) is a crucial task to address for enabling autonomous vehicles to make autonomous decisions in a safe, reliable way. While the task of teaching an autonomous vehicle how to drive can be tackled in a brute-force fashion through direct reinforcement learning, a sensible and attractive alternative is to first provide the vehicle with situation awareness capabilities, to then feed the resulting semantically meaningful representations of road scenarios (in terms of agents, events and scene configuration) to a suitable decision-making strategy. In perspective, this has also the advantage of allowing the modelling of the reasoning process of road agents in a theory-of-mind approach, inspired by the behaviour of the human mind in similar contexts.
Accordingly, the goal of this Challenge is to put to the forefront of the research in autonomous driving the topic of situation awareness, intended as the ability to create semantically useful representations of dynamic road scenes, in terms of the notion of a road event.
*Best teams in the challenge are introduced!To allow the research community to thoroughly investigate situation awareness for autonomous driving, this workshop introduces ROAD, the first ROad event Awareness in Autonomous Driving Dataset, built upon (a fraction of) the Oxford RobotCar Dataset (https://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk/).
ROAD is the result of annotating 22 carefully selected, relatively long-duration (ca 8 minutes each) videos from the RobotCar dataset in terms of what we call road events (REs), as seen from the point of view of the autonomous vehicle capturing the video. REs are defined as triplets E = (Ag;Ac; Loc) composed by a moving agent Ag, the action Ac it performs, and the location Loc in which this takes place. Agent, action and location are all classes in a finite list compiled by surveying the content of the 22 videos.
More information about the dataset can be found the the dataset tab or directly from here (https://github.com/gurkirt/road-dataset)
Invited Speakers
Raquel Urtasun
Waabi
Adrien Gaidon
Toyota Research Institute (TRI)
Alexander Amini
MIT
Deva Ramanan
Argo AI- CMU
Fisher Yu
ETH
Organization Committee
Fabio Cuzzolin
Oxford Brookes University
Giuseppe Di Gironimo
University of Naples Federico II
Reza Javanmard Alitappeh
University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran
Gurkirt Singh
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Andrew Bradley
Oxford Brookes University
Stanislao Grazioso
University of Naples Federico II
Valentina Mușat
University of Oxford
Salman Khan (volunteer)
Oxford Brookes University