Abstract
This article describes a system which extracts german motion-verbs from image-sequences of traffic scenes. These motion-verbs characterize "Geschehen" which are occurences of similar complexity, with a duration of a few seconds. eg "to stop" (anhalten), "to pass" (vorbeifahren) or "to overtake" (überholen). The verbs are attributed to vehicle-trajectories, which were extracted from real world imagine sequences of a traffic junction in Karlsruhe. To cover a sufficiently broad range of verbs, approximately 9.000 verbs found in a dictionary have been considered. After applying several criteria, 90 different motion-verbs were selected, defined and incorporated into the system.