Classifying Cycling Hazards in Egocentric Data
This work addresses the problem of cycling hazards for cyclists and municipal authorities, but it is incremental as it focuses on dataset creation rather than novel methods or applications.
The researchers tackled the problem of cycling safety by creating and annotating an egocentric video dataset of hazardous cycling situations, with the result being a dataset that facilitates projects to improve cyclist safety and experience.
This proposal is for the creation and annotation of an egocentric video data set of hazardous cycling situations. The resulting data set will facilitate projects to improve the safety and experience of cyclists. Since cyclists are highly sensitive to road surface conditions and hazards they require more detail about road conditions when navigating their route. Features such as tram tracks, cobblestones, gratings, and utility access points can pose hazards or uncomfortable riding conditions for their journeys. Possible uses for the data set are identifying existing hazards in cycling infrastructure for municipal authorities, real time hazard and surface condition warnings for cyclists, and the identification of conditions that cause cyclists to make sudden changes in their immediate route.