AssistTaxi: A Comprehensive Dataset for Taxiway Analysis and Autonomous Operations
Parth Ganeriwala, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Sean Gunther, Brian Kish,, Mohammed Abdul Hafeez Khan, Ankur Dhadoti, Natasha Neogi

TL;DR
AssistTaxi is a large, diverse dataset of over 300,000 images from two airports, designed to support research and development of autonomous taxiing systems in aviation.
Contribution
The paper introduces AssistTaxi, a comprehensive dataset for runway and taxiway analysis, along with an initial labeling approach to facilitate autonomous aviation research.
Findings
Dataset contains over 300,000 frames from two airports.
AssistTaxi enables benchmarking and validation of autonomous taxiing algorithms.
Proposed labeling method uses contour detection and line extraction.
Abstract
The availability of high-quality datasets play a crucial role in advancing research and development especially, for safety critical and autonomous systems. In this paper, we present AssistTaxi, a comprehensive novel dataset which is a collection of images for runway and taxiway analysis. The dataset comprises of more than 300,000 frames of diverse and carefully collected data, gathered from Melbourne (MLB) and Grant-Valkaria (X59) general aviation airports. The importance of AssistTaxi lies in its potential to advance autonomous operations, enabling researchers and developers to train and evaluate algorithms for efficient and safe taxiing. Researchers can utilize AssistTaxi to benchmark their algorithms, assess performance, and explore novel approaches for runway and taxiway analysis. Addition-ally, the dataset serves as a valuable resource for validating and enhancing existing…
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