RoadTones: Tone Controllable Text Generation from Road Event Videos
Existing video-language models can generate factual descriptions of road events but lack control over how these events are expressed: their tone, urgency, or style. This limits deployment in communication-critical settings where the effectiveness of a message depends on both content and presentation, not just factual accuracy. To mitigate this, we introduce a comprehensive dataset-model-evaluation suite for tone-controllable road video captioning. Our human-validated data generation pipeline expands road-video corpora with diverse tonal annotations and multi-tone captions, yielding the RoadTones-51K dataset. We propose RoadTones-VL-CoT, a controllable video-to-text model that also generat...
| Authors | Chirag Parikh, Siddhi Pravin Lipare, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 20 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 20 May 2026 |
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