{"url":"/dataset/wads","name":"WADS","full_name":"Winter  Adverse  Driving  dataSet","description_markdown":"Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather.\r\n\r\nOver 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format).\r\n\r\nThis outdoor dataset introduces `falling_snow` and `accumulated_snow` along with all the semanticKITTI classes to further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to severe snow.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://bitbucket.org/autonomymtu/wads","introduced_date":"2021-09-15","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/dsor-a-scalable-statistical-filter-for","title":"DSOR: A Scalable Statistical Filter for Removing Falling Snow from LiDAR Point Clouds in Severe Winter Weather","first_author":"Akhil Kurup","url":null},"license":{"name":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","url":"https://bitbucket.org/autonomymtu/wads/src/master/README.md#~License"},"modalities":[{"name":"3D","url":"/datasets/modality/3d"},{"name":"Point cloud","url":"/datasets/modality/point-cloud"},{"name":"Environment","url":"/datasets/modality/environment"},{"name":"LiDAR","url":"/datasets/modality/lidar"}],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["WADS"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":8,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}