arXiv Machine Learning By Christian McDowell, Andrea Panebianco, Jeremiah Yang, Sirin Chakraborty, Samuel Chamoun, Travis Ross, Yin Sun

SafeStep: An Interactive Demonstration of Semantic Communication for Pedestrian Safety Monitoring

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arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

Edge-Assisted Crowdsensing for Explainable Cyclist Safety Perception

The paper introduces an edge‑assisted crowdsensing framework that uses handlebar‑mounted cameras to capture street‑level video, a vision‑language model to extract structured traffic attributes, and an explainable boosting machine to combine these with OpenStreetMap data and on‑bike kinematics for a 1‑9 safety score. On 1,362 annotated frames from two London routes, the model achieves 72.2 % binary accuracy and a mean absolute error of 1.011, with feature attribution revealing the impact of lane separation, painted lanes, and construction sites on safety ratings. The system operates efficiently at the network edge, requiring only 2.49 s per frame for extraction and 0.4 ms for scoring, and supports continuous monitoring at a cost of 1.4 accuracy points for 1,000 riders over a 20‑second interval.

By Hongsen Cao, Chia-Yen Chiang, Mona Jaber, Meihui Wang, Yasmin Fathy
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 Machine Learning
Aug 19

Reflex-Guard: A Low-Latency Guardrail for LLM Prompt Safety Using Dense Semantic Embeddings

Reflex-Guard is a lightweight, locally‑run guardrail for large language models that uses jailbreak‑aware preprocessing, compact sentence‑transformer embeddings, and seven fast binary classifiers to filter unsafe prompts. It achieves 95.9 % recall on harmful prompts with an end‑to‑end latency of 37.6 ms, outperforming existing solutions such as Llama Guard 2 (255 ms) and SafeDecoding (723 ms). The system can detect all GCG suffix attacks and Base64‑encoded prompts at the default threshold, while DrAttack structured prompts require a lower threshold of 0.03 for optimal detection, and it attains a Reflex Efficiency Score of up to 16.79.

By Istiaque Ahmed, Afia Anjum Borsha, Ranat Das Prangon, Abu-fuad Ahmad, Thi Hong Tran