Provident Vehicle Detection at Night: The PVDN Dataset
Lars Ohnemus, Lukas Ewecker, Ebubekir Asan, Stefan Roos and, Simon Isele, Jakob Ketterer, Leopold M\"uller, Sascha Saralajew

TL;DR
This paper introduces a large, annotated nighttime vehicle detection dataset focusing on light reflections, enabling early detection of oncoming vehicles for improved driver assistance systems.
Contribution
The paper presents the first open-source dataset with detailed annotations of vehicle lights and reflections at night, facilitating research on early vehicle detection methods.
Findings
Dataset contains 59,746 images from 346 scenes.
Annotations include vehicles, headlamps, and reflections.
Provides insights into nighttime vehicle detection challenges.
Abstract
For advanced driver assistance systems, it is crucial to have information about oncoming vehicles as early as possible. At night, this task is especially difficult due to poor lighting conditions. For that, during nighttime, every vehicle uses headlamps to improve sight and therefore ensure safe driving. As humans, we intuitively assume oncoming vehicles before the vehicles are actually physically visible by detecting light reflections caused by their headlamps. In this paper, we present a novel dataset containing 59746 annotated grayscale images out of 346 different scenes in a rural environment at night. In these images, all oncoming vehicles, their corresponding light objects (e.g., headlamps), and their respective light reflections (e.g., light reflections on guardrails) are labeled. This is accompanied by an in-depth analysis of the dataset characteristics. With that, we are…
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TopicsAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety · Advanced Neural Network Applications · Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
