Visual Reasoning at Urban Intersections: Fine-Tuning GPT-4O for Traffic Conflict Detection
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Masri, Sari, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, and Mohammed Elhenawy. “Visual Reasoning at Urban Intersections: Fine-Tuning GPT-4O for Traffic Conflict Detection.” 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI), April 2025, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMI65310.2025.11141198.
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Abstract
Traffic control in unsignalized urban intersections presents significant challenges due to the complexity, frequent conflicts, and blind spots. This study explores the capability of leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4o, to provide logical and visual reasoning by directly using birds-eye-view videos of four-legged intersections. In this proposed method, GPT-4o acts as intelligent system to detect conflicts and provide explanations and recommendations for the drivers. The fine-tuned model achieved an accuracy of 77.14 %, while the manual evaluation of the true predicted values of the fine-tuned GPT-4o showed significant achievements of 89.9 % accuracy for model-generated explanations and 92.3 % for the recommended next actions. These results highlight the feasibility of using MLLMs for real-time traffic management using videos as inputs, offering scalable and actionable insights into intersections traffic management and operation. Code used in this study is available at https://github.com/sarimasri3/Traffic-Intersection-Conflict-Detection-using-images.git.