arXiv AI

Voice-Driven Semantic Perception for UAV-Assisted Emergency Networks

arXiv:2602. 17394v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted networks are increasingly foreseen as a promising approach for emergency response, providing rapid, flexible, and resilient communications in environments where terrestrial infrastructure is degraded or unavailable.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

Evaluating Multimodal LLMs across Text and Audio Modalities for Accessible Disaster Assistance

arXiv:2608. 14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective disaster risk communication is a foundational humanitarian challenge, yet current emergency infrastructure fails to meet the needs of individuals with access and functional needs, including hard-of-hearing individuals, pregnant women, mothers with toddlers, and elderly individuals with dementia.

By Anuridhi Gupta, Samara Mansoor, Hemant Purohit
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

Guide Me Out: A Framework to Benchmark VLM Operators Communication in Crisis Scenarios

Effective crisis response requires spatially grounded communication that bridges linguistic guidance of civilians with the physical environment, accounting for structural bottlenecks, evolving threats, and agent-specific contexts. Yet, current NLP research in crisis communication remains mainly limited to static, text-only classification settings, overlooking the critical communicative role of AI operators in dynamic, embodied scenarios.

arXiv AI
Jun 18

ASTRA: A Scalable Next-Generation ATCO Training Simulator with Autonomous Simpilots

arXiv:2606. 18319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Air Traffic Control Operators (ATCOs) are vital in ensuring the safe, orderly, and efficient flow of air traffic, yet training capacity is constrained by reliance on specialized human trainers known as simpilots, who must role-play both pilots and ATCOs in a simulated airspace.

By Ethan Chew, Enjia Wu, Iruss Eng Wei Yeow, Ian Weiqin Lim, Ranen Sim, Brandon Koh Ziheng, Kaleb Nim, Caden Toh Jun Yi, Wei Dong Soin, Darius Kai Keat Koh, Galen King Yu Tay, Prannaya Gupta, Jonathan Ee Fang Koong, Yong Zhi Lim
arXiv AI
3d ago

Speech-based Psychological Crisis Assessment using LLMs

The paper presents an LLM-based framework for automatically classifying crisis levels in psychological support hotlines, addressing variability in human judgments and staffing constraints. It introduces a paralinguistic injection method that embeds non‑verbal emotional cues into transcripts, allowing the model to consider acoustic nuances. A reasoning‑enhanced training strategy encourages the model to produce diagnostic reasoning chains, which regularizes and improves classification, achieving a macro F1‑score of 0.802 and accuracy of 0.805 in 5‑fold cross‑validation.

By Terumi Chiba, Yang Luo, Ziyun Cui, Yongsheng Tong, Chao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Empowering 9-1-1 Calltaking Training with Generative AI: Experiences and Lessons Learned

arXiv:2602. 13241v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emergency call-takers form the first operational link in public safety response, handling over 240 million calls annually while facing a sustained training crisis: staffing shortages exceed 25\% in many centers, and preparing a single new hire can require up to 720 hours of one-on-one instruction that removes experienced personnel from active duty.

By Zirong Chen, Meiyi Ma
arXiv AI
Jun 6

DisasterBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for UAV-Based Disaster Response in Complex Environments

arXiv:2606. 06217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a disaster unfolds, responders must answer not only what is happening, but also why it is happening, what will happen next, and what to do now, often from noisy low-altitude UAV views and under tight on-site compute constraints.

By Tan Zhang, Quanyou Li, Lu Zhang, Jun Liu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Ping Hu