Tracking All Road Users at Multimodal Urban Traffic Intersections
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Because of the large variability of road user appearance in an urban setting, it is very challenging to track all of them with the purpose of obtaining precise and reliable trajectories. However, obtaining the trajectories of the various road users is very useful for many transportation applications. It is particularly essential for any task that requires higher level behavior interpretation, including new safety diagnosis methods that rely on the observation of road user interactions without a collision and therefore do not require waiting for collisions to happen. In this paper, we propose a tracking method that has been specifically designed to track the various road users that may be encountered in an urban environment. Since road users have very diverse shapes and appearances, our proposed method starts from background subtraction to extract the potential a priori unknown road users. Each of these road users is then tracked using a collection of keypoints inside the detected foreground regions, which allows the interpolation of object locations even during object merges or occlusions. A finite state machine handles fragmentation, splitting, and merging of the road users to correct and improve the resulting object trajectories. The proposed tracker was tested on several urban intersection videos and is shown to outperform an existing reference tracker used in transportation research.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it