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The 10th AI City Challenge

arXiv:2608.17044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 10th AI City Challenge, held with ECCV 2026, marks a decade of community benchmarking for intelligent transportation, smart cities, and physical AI. Since its 2017 start with vehicle detection, classification, and tracking, the challenge has grown into a broad benchmark suite for multi-camera perception, multimodal reasoning, synthetic-to-real learning, generative forecasting, and privacy-preserving evaluation. The 2026 edition continued this growth with 325 registered teams, up from 245 in 2025, and participation from 26 countries and regions, up from 15. Its six primary tracks cover multi-camera 3D perception, transportation safety captioning and VQA, traffic anomaly reasoning, text-based person anomaly search, generative traffic video forecasting, and cross-city object detection. Track 3 further includes two out-of-domain leaderboards, submitted as Tracks 7 and 8, for fisheye traffic-violation understanding and pedestrian situated-intent VQA. This paper summarizes the challenge setup, datasets, evaluation protocols, leaderboard results, and workshop papers. Across tracks, successful systems combine foundation models with geometric grounding, retrieval or reranking, synthetic-data design, domain adaptation, and controlled inference.

SourcearXiv Computer VisionAuthor: Zheng Tang, Shuo Wang, David C. Anastasiu, Ming-Ching Chang, Anuj Sharma, Quan Kong, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Jun-Wei Hsieh, Tomasz Kornuta, Zhedong Zheng, Renran Tian, Judah Goldfeder, Fulgencio Navarro, Yuxing Wang, Yizhou Wang, Sameer Satish Pusegaonkar, Anqi Li, Nalin Dadhich, Ridham Kachhadiya, Dhanishtha Patil, Haoquan Liang, Jiajun Li, Han Zhang, Yilin Zhao, Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Shuyu Yang, Ashutosh Kumar, Rong Wang, Rafael Martin Nieto, Peter Christiansen, Ahmed Abduljawad, Mohanrasu Shanmugam, Nadeem Shaik, Sujit Biswas, Xunlei Wu, Vidya Murali, Rama Chellappa

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Title:The 10th AI City Challenge

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Abstract:The 10th AI City Challenge, held with ECCV 2026, marks a decade of community benchmarking for intelligent transportation, smart cities, and physical AI. Since its 2017 start with vehicle detection, classification, and tracking, the challenge has grown into a broad benchmark suite for multi-camera perception, multimodal reasoning, synthetic-to-real learning, generative forecasting, and privacy-preserving evaluation. The 2026 edition continued this growth with 325 registered teams, up from 245 in 2025, and participation from 26 countries and regions, up from 15. Its six primary tracks cover multi-camera 3D perception, transportation safety captioning and VQA, traffic anomaly reasoning, text-based person anomaly search, generative traffic video forecasting, and cross-city object detection. Track 3 further includes two out-of-domain leaderboards, submitted as Tracks 7 and 8, for fisheye traffic-violation understanding and pedestrian situated-intent VQA. This paper summarizes the challenge setup, datasets, evaluation protocols, leaderboard results, and workshop papers. Across tracks, successful systems combine foundation models with geometric grounding, retrieval or reranking, synthetic-data design, domain adaptation, and controlled inference.

Comments: Summary of the 10th AI City Challenge Workshop in conjunction with ECCV 2026

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

Cite as: arXiv:2608.17044 [cs.CV]

(or arXiv:2608.17044v1 [cs.CV] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.17044

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