JRDB-Social: A Multifaceted Robotic Dataset for Understanding of Context and Dynamics of Human Interactions Within Social Groups

Simindokht Jahangard, Zhixi Cai, Shiki Wen, Hamid Rezatofighi

Abstract: Understanding human social behaviour is crucial in Computer vision and robotics. Micro-level observations like in-dividual actions fall short, necessitating a comprehensive approach that considers individual behaviour, intra-group dynamics, and social group levels for a thorough under-standing. To address dataset limitations, this paper intro-duces JRDB-Social, an extension of JRDB [2]. Designed to fill gaps in human understanding across diverse indoor and outdoor social contexts, JRDB-Social provides annotations at three levels: individual attributes, intra-group in-teractions, and social group context. This dataset aims to enhance our grasp of human social dynamics for robotic applications. Utilizing the recent cutting-edge multi-modal large language models, we evaluated our benchmark to ex-plore their capacity to decipher social human behaviour.