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New TEMPEST model offers scalable driver identification with high accuracy

Researchers have developed TEMPEST, a new Temporal Convolutional Network embedding model that uses an additive angular margin loss (ArcFace) for scalable driver identification. This model maps 60-second multimodal driving windows into 96-dimensional embeddings, allowing for dynamic enrollment without retraining. TEMPEST demonstrated strong performance on a 45-driver dataset, achieving 91.71% Rank-1 accuracy and significantly outperforming existing methods, particularly in maintaining performance as the driver pool size increases. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Kyle Musgrove, Dylan B. Lewis, Sarah Powers, Emma J. Reid, Hector Santos-Villalobos ·

    TEMPEST: Temporal Embeddings for Scalable Driver Identification via Angular Margin Learning

    arXiv:2610.06855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable driver identification requires embedding models that maintain discriminative performance as fleet size grows, yet existing triplet-loss formulations degrade rapidly with driver pool size and overfit to session-specific patt…