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GuideTWSI:面向盲人与低视力人群导航的合成与真实世界图像融合的多样化触觉步行表面指示器数据集
English Title
GuideTWSI: A Diverse Tactile Walking Surface Indicator Dataset from Synthetic and Real-World Images for Blind and Low-Vision Navigation
Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Anh N. H. Nguyen, Parth Goel, Krisha Adhikari, Sunghoon I. Lee, Joydeep Biswas, Nicholas A. Giudice, Donghyun Kim
发布时间
2026/3/7 14:39:20
来源类型
preprint
语言
en
摘要
中文对照

触觉步行表面指示器(TWSI)是盲人与低视力(BLV)行人用于定位人行横道及危险区域的关键安全地标。通过与BLV导盲犬使用者、训犬师及定向行走(O&M)专家的实地观察交流,我们确认了高可靠性与高精度的TWSI分割对BLV人群导航辅助至关重要。实现该可靠性需依赖大规模标注数据。然而,现有城市感知数据集中TWSI样本严重不足;即便是已有的专用铺装数据集也存在局限:其缺乏机器人适用视角(如第一人称视角或俯视视角),且地理分布偏向东亚地区常用的导向条(即沿人行道连续铺设的凸起平行条状结构)。这种狭隘聚焦忽略了截顶圆锥体(即北美与欧洲普遍采用的圆形凸起阵列),后者主要用于路缘、人行横道及站台边缘等位置,作为可探测的警示标识。因此,仅基于导向条数据训练的模型难以泛化至圆锥体警示标识,导致在关键安全场景中出现漏检或误停。

English Original

Tactile Walking Surface Indicators (TWSIs) are safety-critical landmarks that blind and low-vision (BLV) pedestrians use to locate crossings and hazard zones. From our observation sessions with BLV guide dog handlers, trainers, and an O&M specialist, we confirmed the critical importance of reliable and accurate TWSI segmentation for navigation assistance of BLV individuals. Achieving such reliability requires large-scale annotated data. However, TWSIs are severely underrepresented in existing urban perception datasets, and even existing dedicated paving datasets are limited: they lack robot-relevant viewpoints (e.g., egocentric or top-down) and are geographically biased toward East Asian directional bars - raised parallel strips used for continuous guidance along sidewalks. This narrow focus overlooks truncated domes - rows of round bumps used primarily in North America and Europe as detectable warnings at curbs, crossings, and platform edges. As a result, models trained only on bar-centric data struggle to generalize to dome-based warnings, leading to missed detections and false stops in safety-critical environments.

元数据
arXiv2603.07060v1
来源arXiv
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