Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset
This dataset addresses a critical gap for autonomous vehicle development in challenging environments, though it is incremental as it builds on existing data collection methods.
The researchers tackled the lack of autonomous vehicle data in adverse conditions by creating the CADC dataset, which includes 7,000 annotated frames from winter weather with 3D object detection and tracking ground truth.
The Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions (CADC) dataset was collected with the Autonomoose autonomous vehicle platform, based on a modified Lincoln MKZ. The dataset, collected during winter within the Region of Waterloo, Canada, is the first autonomous vehicle dataset that focuses on adverse driving conditions specifically. It contains 7,000 frames collected through a variety of winter weather conditions of annotated data from 8 cameras (Ximea MQ013CG-E2), Lidar (VLP-32C) and a GNSS+INS system (Novatel OEM638). The sensors are time synchronized and calibrated with the intrinsic and extrinsic calibrations included in the dataset. Lidar frame annotations that represent ground truth for 3D object detection and tracking have been provided by Scale AI.