README.md

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tags:
- traffic
language:
- en
task_categories:
- question-answering
license: other
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# AV-TAU Dataset

## Overview
The **AV-TAU Dataset** is developed for advancing research in traffic anomaly understanding and reasoning.  
It provides carefully annotated question–answer pairs in English, aligned with corresponding video data, and is intended **exclusively for academic and educational use**.

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## Related Publication
🔗 [EchoTraffic: Enhancing Traffic Anomaly Understanding with Audio-Visual Insights (CVPR 2025)](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Xing_EchoTraffic_Enhancing_Traffic_Anomaly_Understanding_with_Audio-Visual_Insights_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf)

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## ⚠️ Usage Restrictions (Academic Use Only)

Access to this dataset is **gated**.  
To obtain access, researchers must complete the following steps:

1. **Download and sign the Academic Use License Agreement**  
   - The full license text is provided in the [LICENSE](https://github.com/HarryHsing/EchoTraffic/blob/main/LICENSE.pdf) file.  
   - Print or digitally sign the document.  

2. **Send the signed agreement**  
   - Email the signed copy to:  
     📧 harryhsing@outlook.com  

3. **Wait for approval**  
   - Your Hugging Face access request will only be approved once we confirm receipt of your signed agreement.  
   - Requests without a signed agreement will be rejected.  

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## Citation
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as:

```bibtex
@InProceedings{Xing_2025_CVPR,
    author    = {Xing, Zhenghao and Chen, Hao and Xie, Binzhu and Xu, Jiaqi and Guo, Ziyu and Xu, Xuemiao and Hao, Jianye and Fu, Chi-Wing and Hu, Xiaowei and Heng, Pheng-Ann},
    title     = {EchoTraffic: Enhancing Traffic Anomaly Understanding with Audio-Visual Insights},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2025},
    pages     = {19098-19108}
}
```


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## Contact
For questions or special access requests, please contact:  
📧 harryhsing@outlook.com