SynRailObs: A Synthetic Dataset for Obstacle Detection in Railway Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10784v1
• Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 01:49:55 GMT
• Title: SynRailObs: A Synthetic Dataset for Obstacle Detection in Railway Scenarios
• Authors: Qiushi Guo, Jason Rambach,
• Abstract summary: We introduce SynRailObs, a high-fidelity synthetic dataset designed to represent a diverse range of weather conditions and geographical features.<n>We perform experiments in real-world railway environments, testing on both ballasted and ballastless tracks.<n>The results demonstrate that SynRailObs holds substantial potential for advancing obstacle detection in railway safety applications.
• Score: 1.2277343096128712
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting potential obstacles in railway environments is critical for preventing serious accidents. Identifying a broad range of obstacle categories under complex conditions requires large-scale datasets with precisely annotated, high-quality images. However, existing publicly available datasets fail to meet these requirements, thereby hindering progress in railway safety research. To address this gap, we introduce SynRailObs, a high-fidelity synthetic dataset designed to represent a diverse range of weather conditions and geographical features. Furthermore, diffusion models are employed to generate rare and difficult-to-capture obstacles that are typically challenging to obtain in real-world scenarios. To evaluate the effectiveness of SynRailObs, we perform experiments in real-world railway environments, testing on both ballasted and ballastless tracks across various weather conditions. The results demonstrate that SynRailObs holds substantial potential for advancing obstacle detection in railway safety applications. Models trained on this dataset show consistent performance across different distances and environmental conditions. Moreover, the model trained on SynRailObs exhibits zero-shot capabilities, which are essential for applications in security-sensitive domains. The data is available in https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/qiushi910/synrailobs.

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