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Main Authors: Yang, Jingchun, Zhang, Jinchang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17930
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author Yang, Jingchun
Zhang, Jinchang
author_facet Yang, Jingchun
Zhang, Jinchang
contents The widespread adoption of dashcams has made video evidence in traffic accidents increasingly abundant, yet transforming "what happened in the video" into "who is responsible under which legal provisions" still relies heavily on human experts. Existing ego-view traffic accident studies mainly focus on perception and semantic understanding, while LLM-based legal methods are mostly built on textual case descriptions and rarely incorporate video evidence, leaving a clear gap between the two. We first propose C-TRAIL, a multimodal legal dataset that, under the Chinese traffic regulation system, explicitly aligns dashcam videos and textual descriptions with a closed set of responsibility modes and their corresponding Chinese traffic statutes. On this basis, we introduce a two-stage framework: (1) a traffic accident understanding module that generates textual video descriptions; and (2) a legal multi-agent framework that outputs responsibility modes, statute sets, and complete judgment reports. Experimental results on C-TRAIL and MM-AU show that our method outperforms general and legal LLMs, as well as existing agent-based approaches, while providing a transparent and interpretable legal reasoning process.
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spellingShingle Interpretable Traffic Responsibility from Dashcam Video via Legal Multi Agent Reasoning
Yang, Jingchun
Zhang, Jinchang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The widespread adoption of dashcams has made video evidence in traffic accidents increasingly abundant, yet transforming "what happened in the video" into "who is responsible under which legal provisions" still relies heavily on human experts. Existing ego-view traffic accident studies mainly focus on perception and semantic understanding, while LLM-based legal methods are mostly built on textual case descriptions and rarely incorporate video evidence, leaving a clear gap between the two. We first propose C-TRAIL, a multimodal legal dataset that, under the Chinese traffic regulation system, explicitly aligns dashcam videos and textual descriptions with a closed set of responsibility modes and their corresponding Chinese traffic statutes. On this basis, we introduce a two-stage framework: (1) a traffic accident understanding module that generates textual video descriptions; and (2) a legal multi-agent framework that outputs responsibility modes, statute sets, and complete judgment reports. Experimental results on C-TRAIL and MM-AU show that our method outperforms general and legal LLMs, as well as existing agent-based approaches, while providing a transparent and interpretable legal reasoning process.
title Interpretable Traffic Responsibility from Dashcam Video via Legal Multi Agent Reasoning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17930