Extracting and Analyzing Rail Crossing Behavior Signatures from Videos using Tensor Methods

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Autores principales: Ahn, Dawon, Patel, Het, Khattak, Aemal, Chen, Jia, Papalexakis, Evangelos E.
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Publicado: 2026
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author Ahn, Dawon
Patel, Het
Khattak, Aemal
Chen, Jia
Papalexakis, Evangelos E.
author_facet Ahn, Dawon
Patel, Het
Khattak, Aemal
Chen, Jia
Papalexakis, Evangelos E.
contents Railway crossings present complex safety challenges where driver behavior varies by location, time, and conditions. Traditional approaches analyze crossings individually, limiting the ability to identify shared behavioral patterns across locations. We propose a multi-view tensor decomposition framework that captures behavioral similarities across three temporal phases: Approach (warning activation to gate lowering), Waiting (gates down to train passage), and Clearance (train passage to gate raising). We analyze railway crossing videos from multiple locations using TimeSformer embeddings to represent each phase. By constructing phase-specific similarity matrices and applying non-negative symmetric CP decomposition, we discover latent behavioral components with distinct temporal signatures. Our tensor analysis reveals that crossing location appears to be a stronger determinant of behavior patterns than time of day, and that approach-phase behavior provides particularly discriminative signatures. Visualization of the learned component space confirms location-based clustering, with certain crossings forming distinct behavioral clusters. This automated framework enables scalable pattern discovery across multiple crossings, providing a foundation for grouping locations by behavioral similarity to inform targeted safety interventions.
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spellingShingle Extracting and Analyzing Rail Crossing Behavior Signatures from Videos using Tensor Methods
Ahn, Dawon
Patel, Het
Khattak, Aemal
Chen, Jia
Papalexakis, Evangelos E.
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Railway crossings present complex safety challenges where driver behavior varies by location, time, and conditions. Traditional approaches analyze crossings individually, limiting the ability to identify shared behavioral patterns across locations. We propose a multi-view tensor decomposition framework that captures behavioral similarities across three temporal phases: Approach (warning activation to gate lowering), Waiting (gates down to train passage), and Clearance (train passage to gate raising). We analyze railway crossing videos from multiple locations using TimeSformer embeddings to represent each phase. By constructing phase-specific similarity matrices and applying non-negative symmetric CP decomposition, we discover latent behavioral components with distinct temporal signatures. Our tensor analysis reveals that crossing location appears to be a stronger determinant of behavior patterns than time of day, and that approach-phase behavior provides particularly discriminative signatures. Visualization of the learned component space confirms location-based clustering, with certain crossings forming distinct behavioral clusters. This automated framework enables scalable pattern discovery across multiple crossings, providing a foundation for grouping locations by behavioral similarity to inform targeted safety interventions.
title Extracting and Analyzing Rail Crossing Behavior Signatures from Videos using Tensor Methods
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16057