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Decoding Pedestrian Crossing Intention from Egocentric Vision via Vision Language Models

Egocentric vision offers a first-person view of human perception and decision making, yet its potential for traffic-safety prediction remains underexplored. In this work, we study the decoding of pedestrian crossing intentions from short egocentric video clips.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

TrajFusionNet+: Transformer-Based Prediction of Pedestrian Crossing Intention via Fusion of Trajectory Representations and Scene Graphs

TrajFusionNet+ is a transformer-based model that predicts pedestrian crossing intention by fusing sequential trajectory data, visual trajectory overlays, and graph-based scene context. It extends the earlier TrajFusionNet with three attention modules—Sequence, Visual, and Graph—to capture temporal, visual, and relational cues. The model outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods on the PIE and JAAD datasets and shows better generalization under a joint‑training, separate‑evaluation protocol.

By Fran\c{c}ois G. Landry, Moulay A. Akhloufi
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

Sim-to-Real Traffic Scene Understanding by Decoupling Semantics from Caption Generation with V-JEPA

The paper presents a decoupled framework for sim-to-real traffic scene understanding, separating semantic fact extraction from caption generation. It uses a frozen V-JEPA encoder for predictive scene representations and a lightweight Llama-based predictor for VQA, followed by a training-free structured refinement that leverages statistical priors, inter-question relationships, and temporal consistency. The refined facts are then fed to Qwen3-VL-8B to produce pedestrian and vehicle descriptions, achieving top performance on the 2026 AI City Challenge Track 2 benchmark with 87.09% VQA accuracy and an overall S2 score of 60.0853.

By Nguyen Hoai Thuong Bui, Thanh Nguyen Vo, Trinh Tra Giang Nguyen, Ha Duc Bui
arXiv AI
Jun 29

EXPLORE-Bench: Egocentric Scene Prediction with Long-Horizon Reasoning

arXiv:2603. 09731v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly considered as a foundation for embodied agents, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably reason about the long-term physical consequences of actions from an egocentric viewpoint.

By Chengjun Yu, Xuhan Zhu, Chaoqun Du, Pengfei Yu, Wei Zhai, Yang Cao, Zheng-Jun Zha
arXiv AI
Jul 10

AUTOPILOT VQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Incident-Centric Dashcam Understanding

arXiv:2607. 08745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Large Language Models have improved autonomous driving tasks such as scene understanding, decision making, trajectory prediction, and visual question answering.

By Siddharth Damodharan, Radhika Gupta, Ali Alshami, Ryan Rabinowitz, Jugal Kalita
arXiv AI
Jun 2

From Segments to Scenes: Temporal Understanding in Autonomous Driving via Vision-Language Model

arXiv:2512. 05277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as the perception and reasoning backbone of autonomous agents acting in the wild, with autonomous driving (AD) being one of the most safety-critical instances.

By Kevin Cannons, Saeed Ranjbar Alvar, Mohammad Asiful Hossain, Ahmad Rezaei, Mohsen Gholami, Alireza Heidarikhazaei, Zhou Weimin, Yong Zhang, Mohammad Akbari
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

VLESA: Vision-Language Embodied Safety Agent for Human Activity Monitoring

arXiv:2606. 03954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI systems increasingly assist humans in physical tasks, ensuring safety becomes paramount -- physical actions carry immediate and irreversible consequences that digital errors do not.

By Hanjiang Hu, Yiyuan Pan, Jiaxing Li, Xusheng Luo, Alexander Robey, Na Li, Yebin Wang, Changliu Liu
arXiv AI
5d ago

VLALight: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Models for Emergency-Aware Traffic Signal Control

VLALight is a lightweight end‑to‑end vision‑language‑action framework designed for traffic signal control. It fuses multiple camera views and textual instructions to directly predict signal actions, avoiding intermediate image‑to‑text conversions. The model, with only 0.5 B parameters, achieves superior emergency vehicle service, cutting pooled waiting time by 21.1% compared to cascaded methods while running in real time on local hardware.

By Kemou Jiang, Maonan Wang, Xingchen Zou, Jiayue Zhu, Yuhang Fu, Sicheng Wang, Xi Chen, Yirong Chen, Zhiyong Cui