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GuideDog Gold Dataset

Human-verified gold-standard annotations for blind and low-vision (BLV) navigation assistance.

Dataset Description

GuideDog Gold is a curated dataset of egocentric street-view images with human-verified annotations designed to help develop assistive AI systems for blind and low-vision users. Each image contains:

  • Scene descriptions with spatial context
  • Object detection with clock-direction localization (10-2 o'clock range)
  • Depth information for detected objects
  • Hazard annotations identifying safety-critical elements
  • Gold-standard guidance text following BLV navigation standards

Annotation Standards

Annotations follow the GuideDog S1/S2/S3 framework:

  • S1: Scene description and user position context
  • S2: Hazards at clock directions with distances
  • S3: Summary and recommended navigation direction

Intended Use

This dataset is intended for:

  • Training and evaluating vision-language models for BLV assistance
  • Research on proactive navigation guidance systems
  • Benchmarking multimodal models on accessibility tasks

Ethical Considerations

  • All images are sourced from publicly available walking tour videos
  • No personally identifiable information is included
  • Dataset is provided for research purposes only

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@article{guidedog2024,
  title={GuideDog: Proactive Navigation Assistance for Blind and Low-Vision Users},
  author={[Authors]},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2024}
}

License

This dataset is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Contact

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