Vision-Based Natural Language Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving: An Extended Dataset and a New Model for Traffic Scene Description Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14438v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:50:42 GMT
• Title: Vision-Based Natural Language Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving: An Extended Dataset and a New Model for Traffic Scene Description Generation
• Authors: Danial Sadrian Zadeh, Otman A. Basir, Behzad Moshiri,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a framework that transforms a single frontal-view camera image into a concise natural language description.<n>It integrates spatial and semantic feature extraction to generate contextually rich and detailed scene descriptions.<n>The proposed model achieves strong performance and effectively fulfills its intended objectives on a newly developed dataset.
• Score: 1.3682156035049033
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Traffic scene understanding is essential for enabling autonomous vehicles to accurately perceive and interpret their environment, thereby ensuring safe navigation. This paper presents a novel framework that transforms a single frontal-view camera image into a concise natural language description, effectively capturing spatial layouts, semantic relationships, and driving-relevant cues. The proposed model leverages a hybrid attention mechanism to enhance spatial and semantic feature extraction and integrates these features to generate contextually rich and detailed scene descriptions. To address the limited availability of specialized datasets in this domain, a new dataset derived from the BDD100K dataset has been developed, with comprehensive guidelines provided for its construction. Furthermore, the study offers an in-depth discussion of relevant evaluation metrics, identifying the most appropriate measures for this task. Extensive quantitative evaluations using metrics such as CIDEr and SPICE, complemented by human judgment assessments, demonstrate that the proposed model achieves strong performance and effectively fulfills its intended objectives on the newly developed dataset.

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