# Real-time Accident Anticipation for Autonomous Driving Through Monocular Depth-Enhanced 3D Modeling

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01256 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.01256/

## Key facts

- Cited by 13 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 27 of its 56 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 2 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 27 of 27)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [MMDetection: Open MMLab Detection Toolbox and Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.07155/) (2019)
- [Multi-Task Learning Using Uncertainty to Weigh Losses for Scene Geometry and Semantics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.07115/) (2017)
- [Video Swin Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.13230/) (2021)
- [Multiscale Vision Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.11227/) (2021)
- [ZoeDepth: Zero-shot Transfer by Combining Relative and Metric Depth](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.12288/) (2023)
- [Hypersim: A Photorealistic Synthetic Dataset for Holistic Indoor Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.02523/) (2020)
- [T-GCN: A Temporal Graph ConvolutionalNetwork for Traffic Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.05320/) (2018)
- [Metric3D: Towards Zero-shot Metric 3D Prediction from A Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.10984/) (2023)
- [UniFormerV2: Spatiotemporal Learning by Arming Image ViTs with Video UniFormer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09552/) (2022)
- [Uncertainty-based Traffic Accident Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Relational Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.00334/) (2020)
- [World Models for Autonomous Driving: An Initial Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.02622/) (2024)
- [Unsupervised Traffic Accident Detection in First-Person Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.00618/) (2019)
- [DADA: Driver Attention Prediction in Driving Accident Scenarios](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.12148/) (2019)
- [Anticipating Traffic Accidents with Adaptive Loss and Large-scale Incident DB](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02675/) (2018)
- [DRIVE: Deep Reinforced Accident Anticipation with Visual Explanation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.10189/) (2021)
- [A Dynamic Spatial-temporal Attention Network for Early Anticipation of Traffic Accidents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.10197/) (2021)
- [Single Image Depth Estimation: An Overview](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.06456/) (2021)
- [Agent-Centric Risk Assessment: Accident Anticipation and Risky Region Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.06560/) (2017)
- [GPT-4 Enhanced Multimodal Grounding for Autonomous Driving: Leveraging Cross-Modal Attention with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.03543/) (2023)
- [Vision-Based Traffic Accident Detection and Anticipation: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.15985/) (2023)
- [CRASH: Crash Recognition and Anticipation System Harnessing with Context-Aware and Temporal Focus Attentions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.17757/) (2024)
- [MFTraj: Map-Free, Behavior-Driven Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.01266/) (2024)
- [No driver, No Regulation? --Online Legal Driving Behavior Monitoring for Self-driving Vehicles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04156/) (2022)
- [Towards explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for early anticipation of traffic accidents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.00273/) (2021)
- [When, Where, and What? A Novel Benchmark for Accident Anticipation and Localization with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.16277/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [Nexar Dashcam Collision Prediction Dataset and Challenge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.03848/) (2025)
- [Minds on the Move: Decoding Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving with Cognitive Insights](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.20084/) (2025)
- [World Model-Based End-to-End Scene Generation for Accident Anticipation in Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.12762/) (2025)
- [Domain-Enhanced Dual-Branch Model for Efficient and Interpretable Accident Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.12755/) (2025)
- [Accident Anticipation via Temporal Occurrence Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22260/) (2025)
- [RiskProp: Collision-Anchored Self-Supervised Risk Propagation for Early Accident Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.27165/) (2026)
- [ROAR: Robust Accident Recognition and Anticipation for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.06226/) (2025)
- [Learning from the Unseen: Generative Data Augmentation for Geometric-Semantic Accident Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.00051/) (2026)
- [FLaRA: Predicting Future Latent Representations for Accident Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.14380/) (2026)
- [CARA: Concept-Aware Risk Attention for Interpretable Collision Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.22494/) (2026)
- [Observe Before You Alert: Adaptive Driver Alerting with Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.08130/) (2026)
- [Progressive Risk Estimation for Accident Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.32811/) (2026)
- [TerrainForge: Physics-Grounded Road Geometry Editing for Counterfactual Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.02825/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The primary goal of traffic accident anticipation is to foresee potential accidents in real time using dashcam videos, a task that is pivotal for enhancing the safety and reliability of autonomous driving technologies. In this study, we introduce an innovative framework, AccNet, which significantly advances the prediction capabilities beyond the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) 2D-based methods by incorporating monocular depth cues for sophisticated 3D scene modeling. Addressing the prevalent challenge of skewed data distribution in traffic accident datasets, we propose the Binary Adaptive Loss for Early Anticipation (BA-LEA). This novel loss function, together with a multi-task learning strategy, shifts the focus of the predictive model towards the critical moments preceding an accident. {We rigorously evaluate the performance of our framework on three benchmark datasets--Dashcam Accident Dataset (DAD), Car Crash Dataset (CCD), and AnAn Accident Detection (A3D), and DADA-2000 Dataset--demonstrating its superior predictive accuracy through key metrics such as Average Precision (AP) and mean Time-To-Accident (mTTA).