arXiv AI
Jul 29
Real-Time Driver Safety Scoring Through Inverse Crash Probability Modeling
arXiv:2603. 14841v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Road crashes remain a leading cause of preventable fatalities.
Scenario-Independent Criticality Assessment and Prediction for Vulnerable Road Users in Autonomous Driving
The paper introduces a new criticality metric specifically designed for vulnerable road users (VRUs) and a scenario‑independent prediction framework that applies to all traffic participants. The VRU‑centric metric improves pedestrian criticality classification by up to 50 %, while the prediction framework surpasses state‑of‑the‑art metrics by 275 %, achieving an F1‑score of 0.96 on the DeepAccident dataset. These advances enable more accurate, scenario‑agnostic safety assessments for autonomous driving systems.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14
Comparison-Based Ordinal Learning for Proactive Driving Risk Assessment
arXiv:2607. 11128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time driving risk assessment provides an essential basis for proactive safety by identifying and quantifying the danger of ongoing road interactions before adverse outcomes occur.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
DSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating External and In-Cabin Risks
arXiv:2511. 14592v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great promise for autonomous driving, but their suitability for safety-critical scenarios is largely unexplored, raising safety concerns.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
From Cues to Horizons: Dynamic Risk Horizon Profiling for Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2606. 00857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and reliable vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for safe autonomous driving.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9
A knowledge-augmented dataset of high-risk driving scenarios with LLM annotations for autonomous driving
arXiv:2607. 07103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe autonomous driving requires both rapid responses to common high-risk events and deeper reasoning over rare, extreme long-tail scenarios in traffic safety.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8
A knowledge-augmented dataset of high-risk driving scenarios with LLM annotations for autonomous driving
Safe autonomous driving requires both rapid responses to common high-risk events and deeper reasoning over rare, extreme long-tail scenarios in traffic safety. These scenarios are severely under-represented in naturalistic driving data, and existing trajectory and language-augmented datasets seldom provide high-risk event labels, semantic annotations, and verifiable safety signals.
arXiv AI
Jul 28
From Camera-Based Sensing to Reasoning: A Comprehensive Review Toward Proactive Vulnerable Road User Safety
arXiv:2510. 03314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and cyclists, remains a critical challenge, as conventional infrastructure-based measures are often insufficient in dynamic urban environments.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3
PRISM: An Agentic Multi-Model Architecture for Proactive Safety in Autonomous Transportation Systems
PRISM (Proactive Risk Intelligence and Safety Management) is an agentic multi-model architecture designed to shift autonomous transportation safety from reactive crash avoidance to proactive, continuous risk management. It uses inverse crash‑probability modeling to transform binary crash classifiers into dynamic safety scores, and runs three specialized models—trajectory kinematics, environmental risk, and VRU interaction—coordinated by a reinforcement‑learning reasoning layer. Across 1,296 naturalistic driving scenarios, PRISM achieved a mean safety score of 68/100, classified 77.6% of situations as advisory, and flagged 3.8% as near‑misses, with 11% requiring intervention or emergency response, highlighting trajectory risk and VRU proximity as key safety factors.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30
Zero-Label Driving Scenario Complexity Detection via Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture
arXiv:2606. 28383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying complex and safety-critical driving scenarios in large unlabelled datasets is an important but expensive problem.
arXiv AI
Sep 18
LLM-Guided Transformation of Non-Critical Driving Scenes into Safety-Critical Scenarios Using Augmented Reality
The paper introduces an automated pipeline that converts non‑critical driving scenes into safety‑critical scenarios by integrating computer vision, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Augmented Reality (AR). It detects and tracks road users, extracts safety features such as distance, velocity, motion direction, and Time‑to‑Collision (TTC), and evaluates scene criticality. Safe scenes are then modified by an LLM, which generates realistic collision‑inducing objects and behaviors that are overlaid onto the original scene using AR, achieving 97.52% safety classification accuracy on the nuScenes dataset and producing realistic scenarios like pedestrian crossings, rear overtaking vehicles, and sudden‑stop events.
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 26
Effort-Based Criticality Metrics for Evaluating 3D Perception Errors in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.28029v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Criticality metrics such as time-to-collision (TTC) quantify collision urgency but do not distinguish the operational consequences of false-positiv...
arXiv AI
Jun 30
TrajRS: Towards Certified Robustness in Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2606. 28716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The robustness of trajectory prediction models is crucial for developing safe autonomous driving systems.