AV-TAU Dataset

Overview

The AV-TAU Dataset is developed for advancing research in traffic anomaly understanding and reasoning.
It provides carefully annotated question–answer pairs in English, aligned with corresponding video data, and is intended exclusively for academic and educational use.

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Related Publication

🔗 EchoTraffic: Enhancing Traffic Anomaly Understanding with Audio-Visual Insights (CVPR 2025)

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⚠️ Usage Restrictions (Academic Use Only)

Access to this dataset is gated.
To obtain access, researchers must complete the following steps:

1. Download and sign the Academic Use License Agreement

   • The full license text is provided in the LICENSE file.
   • Print or digitally sign the document.

2. Send the signed agreement

   • Email the signed copy to:
     📧 [email protected]

3. Wait for approval

   • Your Hugging Face access request will only be approved once we confirm receipt of your signed agreement.
   • Requests without a signed agreement will be rejected.

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Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as:

@InProceedings{Xing_2025_CVPR,
    author    = {Xing, Zhenghao and Chen, Hao and Xie, Binzhu and Xu, Jiaqi and Guo, Ziyu and Xu, Xuemiao and Hao, Jianye and Fu, Chi-Wing and Hu, Xiaowei and Heng, Pheng-Ann},
    title     = {EchoTraffic: Enhancing Traffic Anomaly Understanding with Audio-Visual Insights},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2025},
    pages     = {19098-19108}
}

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Contact

For questions or special access requests, please contact:
📧 [email protected]