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TRACER: Training-Free Closed-Loop Structured Inference for Traffic Accident Reconstruction

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arXiv:2606.25002 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Jun 2026]

Title:TRACER: Training-Free Closed-Loop Structured Inference for Traffic Accident Reconstruction

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Abstract:Traffic accident reconstruction is a forensic inverse problem that requires recovering physically consistent motion from sparse and heterogeneous evidence. Existing learning-based approaches predominantly optimize for semantic plausibility or visual realism, rather than quantitative agreement with measurable geometry and dynamics. Here, we present TRACER, a training-free framework that formulates reconstruction as a closed-loop structured inference process. Instead of directly generating dense trajectories, our framework constructs and iteratively refines event-anchored motion hypotheses under geometric, kinematic, and interaction constraints, guided by structured case memory and consistency-driven diagnosis. This design enables incremental, interpretable corrections when evidence is insufficient, making the accident reconstruction process more aligned with the workflow of human experts. Experiments on real-world accident data show that TRACER achieves improved geometric fidelity, velocity consistency, and collision accuracy over both data-driven and physics-based baselines.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2606.25002 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2606.25002v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.25002
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From: Yanchen Guan [view email]
[v1] Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:28:09 UTC (1,834 KB)
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