ECAI 2004 Conference Paper

CarSim: A System to Simulate Road Accidents in a 3D Environment from Written Descriptions

Richard Johansson, David Williams, Pierre Nugues

This paper describes a system to create animated 3D scenes of car accidents from written reports. Reports are narratives written after the accident by one of the drivers or by an accident analyst. The text-to-scene conversion process consists of two stages. An information extraction module creates a tabular description of the accident and a visual simulator generates and animates the scene. We first describe the overall structure of the text-to-scene conversion and the template structure. We then explain the information extraction and visualization modules. We show snapshots of the car animation output and we conclude with the results we obtained.

Keywords: text-to-scene conversion, information extraction, visualization

Citation: Richard Johansson, David Williams, Pierre Nugues: CarSim: A System to Simulate Road Accidents in a 3D Environment from Written Descriptions. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.1035-1036.

ECAI-2004 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de València on behalf of Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) and Associació Catalana d'Intel-ligència Artificial (ACIA).