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Automatic Cause Determination in Road Scene Understanding Using Qualitative Reasoning and Four-Valued Logic

Nassim Belmecheri·Arnaud Gotlieb·Nadjib Lazaar·Helge Spieker
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Road scene understanding in automated driving (AD) aims to build a comprehensive analysis of video sequences taken on the road by embedded or fixed cameras (e.g., mounted on vertical road signals). One goal is to identify the relevant actors in the scene and another goal is to determine the causes that have triggered a specific action of the ego car (i.e., stop, slow down, turn left, etc.). In a complex urban environment, these causes can be multiple, confusing, possibly contradictory to other causes and not easily expressible using simplistic reasoning. Still, providing accurate {\it automatic cause determination} supports a) user acceptance by providing appropriate explanations to the car passengers and road users; b) increased road safety by providing detailed road scene understanding to traffic. In this paper, we propose using spatiotemporal reasoning and Belnap's four-valued logic to formulate complex causes of AD action in a road scene. We compute these causes by analysing a Qualitative eXplainable Graph (QXG), which is an abstract representation of the road scene capturing spatiotemporal relations between road entities. Starting from a QXG, our approach called \tool, is targeted to determine complex causes of a selected AD action occurring in a specific frame of a road scene. The usefulness of \tool is demonstrated on several scenes extracted from the well-known NuScene dataset.

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Nassim Belmecheri, Arnaud Gotlieb, Nadjib Lazaar, Helge Spieker. 2026-10-14. Automatic Cause Determination in Road Scene Understanding Using Qualitative Reasoning and Four-Valued Logic. https://doi.org/10.1109/iv64158.2025.11097599

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