arXiv Machine Learning

Enhancing Road Safety Through Multi-Camera Image Segmentation with Post-Encroachment Time Analysis

The paper introduces a multi‑camera computer vision system that computes Post‑Encroachment Time (PET) in real time to assess intersection safety. Using four synchronized cameras and YOLOv11 segmentation on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier devices, vehicle detections are mapped to a unified bird’s‑eye view and processed with a pixel‑level PET algorithm to generate high‑resolution heatmaps. The system records PET data in an SQL database and demonstrates real‑time throughput (2.68 FPS) with 800 × 800 heatmaps, validating a scalable, decentralized approach for high‑resolution intersection safety evaluation.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic scene understanding requires models to reason beyond object recognition, including lane topology, multi-view geometry, temporal evolution, and signal-phase semantics.

By Maonan Wang, Zhengyan Huang, Kemou Jiang, Yuhang Fu, Jiayue Zhu, Yuxin Cai, Xingchen Zou, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yi Yu, Ding Wang, Xi Chen, Ben M. Chen, Yuxuan Liang, Zhiyong Cui, Man On Pun, Yirong Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Situation Awareness for Intelligent Data Distribution in Connected Vehicles

The paper proposes a method for identifying the current traffic situation of a vehicle using Bird's‑Eye‑View images. It combines object detection with semantic segmentation and a situation identification neural network built on the Cam2BEV projective transformation. The approach was validated in the CARLA simulator and on Cityscapes and nuScenes datasets, demonstrating that it can prioritize relevant sensor data for efficient distribution in connected vehicles.

By Falk Dettinger, Akshay Narla, Michael Weyrich
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

PRISA: Proactive Infrastructure LiDAR Framework for Intersection Safety Assessment

arXiv:2607. 16156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban intersections are among the most hazardous locations in road networks, posing significant risks to vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists.

By Tam Bang, Hussam Abubakr, Emiliano de la Garza Villarreal, Truc Phuong Nguyen, Austin Harris, Toru Hirano, Mina Sartipi, Yunfei Xu, Hoang H. Nguyen
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.

By Shucheng Zhang, Yan Shi, Bingzhang Wang, Yuang Zhang, Muhammad Monjurul Karim, Kehua Chen, Chenxi Liu, Mehrdad Nasri, Yinhai Wang
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
Sep 10

Closed-Loop Evaluation of Bird's-Eye-View Maps from Cross-View Transformers as Inputs to Behavior-Cloning Policies

The paper studies how Bird's‑Eye‑View (BEV) maps predicted by Cross‑View Transformers (CVT) can be used directly as inputs to a Behavior‑Cloning (BC) driving policy in the CARLA simulator. It introduces a six‑channel BEV representation and a Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) weighting scheme to focus learning on underrepresented maneuvers. Closed‑loop tests show that the KDE‑weighted model is the only predicted‑BEV agent to finish an episode without infractions, highlighting that global segmentation scores are poor proxies for driving performance and that prediction quality at critical geometries, especially the route channel, is key to reliable navigation.

By Felipe Carlos dos Santos, Eric Antonelo, Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto
arXiv AI
Jul 7

BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird's-Eye View Representations

arXiv:2603. 06576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail scenarios.

By Thomas Monninger, Shaoyuan Xie, Qi Alfred Chen, Sihao Ding
arXiv AI
Aug 12

TransitReID: Transit OD Data Collection with Occlusion-Resistant Dynamic Passenger Re-Identification

arXiv:2504. 11500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transit Origin-Destination (OD) data are fundamental for optimizing public transit services, yet current collection methods, such as manual surveys, Bluetooth/WiFi tracking, and Automated Passenger Counters, are often costly, device-dependent, or unable to support individual-level matching.

By Kaicong Huang, Talha Azfar, Jack Reilly, Ruimin Ke