DRAMA-X: A Fine-grained Intent Prediction and Risk Reasoning Benchmark For Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17590v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 05:01:42 GMT
• Title: DRAMA-X: A Fine-grained Intent Prediction and Risk Reasoning Benchmark For Driving
• Abstract summary: No existing benchmark evaluates multi-class intent prediction in safety-critical situations.<n>We introduce DRAMA-X, a fine-grained benchmark constructed from the DRAMA dataset.<n>We propose SGG-Intent, a lightweight, training-free framework that mirrors the ego vehicle's reasoning pipeline.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding the short-term motion of vulnerable road users (VRUs) like pedestrians and cyclists is critical for safe autonomous driving, especially in urban scenarios with ambiguous or high-risk behaviors. While vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled open-vocabulary perception, their utility for fine-grained intent reasoning remains underexplored. Notably, no existing benchmark evaluates multi-class intent prediction in safety-critical situations, To address this gap, we introduce DRAMA-X, a fine-grained benchmark constructed from the DRAMA dataset via an automated annotation pipeline. DRAMA-X contains 5,686 accident-prone frames labeled with object bounding boxes, a nine-class directional intent taxonomy, binary risk scores, expert-generated action suggestions for the ego vehicle, and descriptive motion summaries. These annotations enable a structured evaluation of four interrelated tasks central to autonomous decision-making: object detection, intent prediction, risk assessment, and action suggestion. As a reference baseline, we propose SGG-Intent, a lightweight, training-free framework that mirrors the ego vehicle's reasoning pipeline. It sequentially generates a scene graph from visual input using VLM-backed detectors, infers intent, assesses risk, and recommends an action using a compositional reasoning stage powered by a large language model. We evaluate a range of recent VLMs, comparing performance across all four DRAMA-X tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that scene-graph-based reasoning enhances intent prediction and risk assessment, especially when contextual cues are explicitly modeled.

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