arXiv:2607. 03131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video surveillance systems generate far more video streams than human operators can effectively monitor, making automated analysis essential for timely detection of security events.
By Estera Dumitru, Stelian Sp\^inu
arXiv:2609.16163v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The sharp increase in mass shootings underscores an urgent need for systems that guide victims to safety in real time. An effective evacuation system m...
By Daniel Perkins, Subhadeep Chakraborty
The 10th AI City Challenge, held alongside ECCV 2026, celebrates a decade of benchmarking for intelligent transportation, smart cities, and physical AI. Since its 2017 inception focused on vehicle detection, classification, and tracking, the challenge has expanded into a comprehensive benchmark suite covering multi‑camera perception, multimodal reasoning, synthetic‑to‑real learning, generative forecasting, and privacy‑preserving evaluation. The 2026 edition saw 325 registered teams from 26 countries, with six main tracks—spanning multi‑camera 3D perception, transportation safety captioning and VQA, traffic anomaly reasoning, text‑based person anomaly search, generative traffic video forecasting, and cross‑city object detection—plus two out‑of‑domain leaderboards for fisheye traffic‑violation understanding and pedestrian situated‑intent VQA.
By Zheng Tang, Shuo Wang, David C. Anastasiu, Ming-Ching Chang, Anuj Sharma, Quan Kong, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Jun-Wei Hsieh, Tomasz Kornuta, Zhedong Zheng, Renran Tian, Judah Goldfeder, Fulgencio Navarro, Yuxing Wang, Yizhou Wang, Sameer Satish Pusegaonkar, Anqi Li, Nalin Dadhich, Ridham Kachhadiya, Dhanishtha Patil, Haoquan Liang, Jiajun Li, Han Zhang, Yilin Zhao, Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Shuyu Yang, Ashutosh Kumar, Rong Wang, Rafael Martin Nieto, Peter Christiansen, Ahmed Abduljawad, Mohanrasu Shanmugam, Nadeem Shaik, Sujit Biswas, Xunlei Wu, Vidya Murali, Rama Chellappa
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
The paper introduces a cluster-based method for predicting dense crowd trajectories, grouping individuals with similar attributes over time to accelerate processing. By replacing individual pedestrian inputs with cluster centroids, the approach reduces computational cost and memory usage while preserving accuracy. Extensive evaluations on challenging dense crowd scenes confirm these benefits compared to state‑of‑the‑art methods.
By Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya, Paul Henderson, Marwa Mahmoud
arXiv:2609.16415v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Pedestrian-count forecasting supports pedestrian-oriented Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), including crowd monitoring, pedestrian-traffic st...
By Theivaprakasham Hari, Ziteng Li, Yanan Xin, Winnie Daamen, Serge Hoogendoorn
COMET is a coordinated multi-layer runtime monitoring framework designed for human-supervised AI-enabled safety systems. It employs three monitoring layers—signal integrity, physics consistency, and the AI system’s competence envelope—whose outputs are combined and displayed via a traffic-light interface. Evaluated on a compressed‑air leak dataset, COMET eliminates the AI’s silent failures under covariate shift and most sensor faults, while maintaining a low false‑alarm rate.
By Niclas Flehmig, Mary Ann Lundteigen, Shen Yin
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
arXiv:2608. 13031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic video understanding has become an important problem in intelligent transportation, as road videos provide direct evidence for accidents, violations, and interactions between vehicles and vulnerable road users.
By Peng Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Yangbangyan Jiang, Qingming Huang
The paper proposes a proactive approach to road safety in Greater Sydney by using connected vehicle telemetry to predict risky driving events before crashes occur. It quantifies risky driving with g‑force thresholds and builds spatio‑temporal heatmaps to locate high‑risk zones. Eight predictive models were compared, with ARIMA achieving the lowest error and showing that simple time‑series methods can rival deep learning when data are limited, highlighting the value of IoT data for targeted safety interventions.
By Adriana-Simona Mih\u{a}i\c{t}\u{a}, Clarence Cheung, Artur Grigorev, Tuo Mao, David Lillo-Trynes
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.
By Joyjit Roy, Samaresh Kumar Singh, Sushanta Das
arXiv:2610.07939v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Due to rapid advances in Generative AI, commercial video generation tools can be used to produce fabricated surveillance footage that can fool both hum...
By Baptiste Chopin, Thomas Swearingen, Arun Ross, Antitza Dantcheva, Christian Rathgeb