MOTOR Dataset Brings Two-Wheeler Rider Footage to FiftyOne for Road Research

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Most public driving datasets, such as nuScenes and Waymo, focus on four-wheeled cars, even though two-wheelers dominate traffic in India and much of the Global South. MOTOR, created by researchers at IIIT Hyderabad's CVIT lab, documents motorcycle and scooter riding across more than 1,600 annotated maneuver sequences from 16 riders. A 324-clip subset has now been published on Hugging Face in FiftyOne's grouped format, pairing four synchronized camera views with GPS routes, gyroscope data, and rider gaze heatmaps. The article explains the subset's structure, including legality labels and a known API limitation in FiftyOne's map panel. Its authors note the subset is suited to exploring the dataset's schema rather than reproducing the full benchmark results.

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