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Abstract - BATON: A Multimodal Benchmark for Bidirectional Automation Transition Observation in Naturalistic Driving
Existing driving automation (DA) systems on production vehicles rely on human drivers to decide when to engage DA while requiring them to remain continuously attentive and ready to intervene. This design demands substantial situational judgment and imposes significant cognitive load, leading to steep learning curves, suboptimal user experience, and safety risks from both over-reliance and delayed takeover. Predicting when drivers hand over control to DA and when they take it back is therefore critical for designing proactive, context-aware HMI, yet existing datasets rarely capture the multimodal context, including road scene, driver state, vehicle dynamics, and route environment. To fill this gap, we introduce BATON, a large-scale naturalistic dataset capturing real-world DA usage across 127 drivers, and 136.6 hours of driving. The dataset synchronizes front-view video, in-cabin video, decoded CAN bus signals, radar-based lead-vehicle interaction, and GPS-derived route context, forming a closed-loop multimodal record around each control transition. We define three benchmark tasks: driving action understanding, handover prediction, and takeover prediction, and evaluate baselines spanning sequence models, classical classifiers, and zero-shot VLMs. Results show that visual input alone is insufficient for reliable transition prediction: front-view video captures road context but not driver state, while in-cabin video reflects driver readiness but not the external scene. Incorporating CAN and route-context signals substantially improves performance over video-only settings, indicating strong complementarity across modalities. We further find takeover events develop more gradually and benefit from longer prediction horizons, whereas handover events depend more on immediate contextual cues, revealing an asymmetry with direct implications for HMI design in assisted driving systems.
BATON:一个用于自然驾驶中双向自动化控制切换观察的多模态基准数据集 /
BATON: A Multimodal Benchmark for Bidirectional Automation Transition Observation in Naturalistic Driving
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这篇论文提出了一个名为BATON的大规模真实驾驶数据集,它通过同步记录道路、驾驶员、车辆和路线等多维度信息,揭示了仅靠视觉数据无法可靠预测人车控制权切换,并发现驾驶员接管和交出控制权的模式存在差异,为设计更智能的人机交互系统提供了关键依据。