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Commercial licensing inquiry — VZCrash dataset
Hi,
This is Shiva,
I'm building Humloop, a family safety app focused on crash detection for two-wheeler riders in India (motorcycle/scooter-first, using phone sensors rather than dedicated vehicle telematics). I came across VZCrash via your ITSC 2026 paper and it's an impressive dataset — the first large-scale real-world IMU crash dataset I've found at this scale.
I noticed VZCrash is released under CC BY-NC 4.0, which I understand restricts commercial use. Humloop is an early-stage commercial product (currently in development, not yet monetized), and I wanted to ask directly rather than assume:
Is a commercial license or research collaboration arrangement available for VZCrash, even for a small/early-stage team?
Would you be open to a conversation about whether VZCrash's data (fleet vehicles — cars/vans/trucks) could meaningfully transfer to a two-wheeler, phone-sensor use case, or whether that's too large a domain gap to be useful?
If a commercial license isn't available, is there a non-commercial research use case (e.g., validating our own architecture/methodology against your benchmarks) that would still be acceptable under the current license?
Thanks for putting this dataset together — happy to share more about what we're building if useful context.