ProjectSidewalk / ProjectSidewalk/RampNet
Add clovis as a third benchmark city; pursue source/geographic diversity
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- Python
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Description
Motivation
The comparison rests on two cities — richmond (Mapillary 360) and bend (GSV). That's thin for a "RampNet wins" generalization claim, and it can't distinguish "RampNet is better everywhere" from "RampNet is tuned to these two US-suburban streetscapes." More cities tighten the Wilson CIs and stress-test both the lead and RampNet itself.
Immediate: finish clovis
benchmark/clovis/ is already staged — 125 Mapillary panos (Clovis, NM), records.jsonl + panos/ + gallery/ + index.csv — but has no verdicts.json yet, so it isn't scored and doesn't appear in the results. Remaining:
- GT-verify the sample with
scripts/gt_gallery.py benchmark/clovis→verdicts.json(in flight;gt_gallery.pycurrently has uncommitted working changes). - One cluster run of the model set → a third results row in
docs/model_comparison.md. - Add the split to the HF benchmark dataset (#21) and the README "Current splits" table.
Beyond clovis: real diversity
clovis is Mapillary again, so it doesn't add source diversity (still GSV-vs-Mapillary). A genuinely harder generalization test wants a different source / geography / camera: a dense urban core, a non-US city, or a different capture rig. The two-repo split (sidewalk-auto-labeler enumerates + detects, RampNet scores) makes adding a city cheap — a split just needs records.jsonl + verdicts.json + panos/.
Bonus
clovis can double as the dev split for the VLM prompt study (companion issue), keeping prompt tuning off the richmond/bend test set.
Refs #20, #21; docs/model_comparison.md Next increments #2.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with benchmark/clovis/ and run scripts/gt_gallery.py benchmark/clovis to produce the missing verdicts.json, checking the script's current working changes first. Then run one model cluster, add the Clovis row to docs/model_comparison.md, update the HF dataset and README Current splits table, and confirm the split appears in results.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- huggingface, python
- Domain
- data, documentation, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100