The causal agent labels are an additional attribute to the Waymo Open Motion Dataset. In addition to causal agent labels, we also release perturbed copies of the Waymo Open Motion Dataset validation dataset, which serve as robustness benchmarks to aid the research community in building more reliable and safe models for motion forecasting. For more information, please see the paper CausalAgents: A Robustness Benchmark for Motion Forecasting using Causal Relationships.
In order to access the data, please go to https://www.waymo.com/open and click on Access Waymo Open Dataset, which requires a user to sign in with Google and accept the Waymo Open Dataset license terms. After logging in, please visit https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/waymo_open_dataset_causal_agents to download the labels.
The causal agent labels are released as a TFRecord of causal labels protos (causal_label.proto).
The protocol buffer format for causal labels includes the following fields:
CausalLabels
LabelerResults
We release four perturbed datasets:
Among them, we categorize both RemoveNoncausal and RemoveNoncausalEqual as “non-causal” perturbations and we recommend these datasets as benchmarks for measuring robustness in future work.
We include RemoveStatic and RemoveCausal as baselines. In our own work, we used these datasets to sanity check model behavior (e.g. we expect the model to be more sensitive to removing causal agents than non-causal or static agents).
To delete an agent from the original dataset, we set the valid bit of the corresponding agent to False for all time steps. Please double check that any model you evaluate on the perturbed datasets correctly ignores all agent state if the valid bit is false. (We verified this for all models we evaluated in the paper).
We provide each perturbed dataset as sharded TFRecord files containing WOMD tf.Example protos.
This code repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
If you use this data, please include the following citation:
@article{roelofs2022causalagents, title={CausalAgents: A Robustness Benchmark for Motion Forecasting using Causal Relationships}, author={Roelofs, Rebecca and Sun, Liting and Caine, Ben and Refaat, Khaled S and Sapp, Ben and Ettinger, Scott and Chai, Wei}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03586}, year={2022} }
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