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Traffic incidents involving vulnerable road users (VRUs) constitute a significant proportion of global road accidents. Advances in traffic communication ecosystems, coupled with sophisticated signal processing and machine learning…

Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and cyclists, remains a critical global challenge, as conventional infrastructure-based measures often prove inadequate in dynamic urban environments. Recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shucheng Zhang , Yan Shi , Bingzhang Wang , Yuang Zhang , Muhammad Monjurul Karim , Kehua Chen , Chenxi Liu , Mehrdad Nasri , Yinhai Wang

Extensive research has already been conducted in the autonomous driving field to help vehicles navigate safely and efficiently. At the same time, plenty of current research on vulnerable road user (VRU) safety is performed which largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haochong Chen , Xincheng Cao , Bilin Aksun-Guvenc , Levent Guvenc

Avoiding collisions with vulnerable road users (VRUs) using sensor-based early recognition of critical situations is one of the manifold opportunities provided by the current development in the field of intelligent vehicles. As especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Michael Goldhammer , Sebastian Köhler , Stefan Zernetsch , Konrad Doll , Bernhard Sick , Klaus Dietmayer

Object detection is a computer vision task that has become an integral part of many consumer applications today such as surveillance and security systems, mobile text recognition, and diagnosing diseases from MRI/CT scans. Object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Sudeep Pasricha

The use of reactive detection technologies such as passive and active sensors for avoiding car accidents involving pedestrians and other Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) is one of the cornerstones of Cooperative, Connected, and Automated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Oscar Amador , Erik Ronelöv , Katarina Boustedt , Jesper Blidkvist , Alexey Vinel

Vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists represent more than half of global traffic deaths, yet their detection remains challenging in poor lighting, adverse weather, and unbalanced data sets. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Penelope Brown , Julie Stephany Berrio Perez , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall

Vulnerable road users (VRUs, i.e. cyclists and pedestrians) will play an important role in future traffic. To avoid accidents and achieve a highly efficient traffic flow, it is important to detect VRUs and to predict their intentions. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Maarten Bieshaar , Günther Reitberger , Stefan Zernetsch , Bernhard Sick , Erich Fuchs , Konrad Doll

Automated vehicles (AVs) are of great potential in reducing crashes on the road. However, it is still complicated to eliminate all the possible accidents, especially those with vulnerable road users (VRUs), who are among the greater risk…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Aditya Deshmukh , Zifei Wang , Aaron Gunn , Huizhong Guo , Rini Sherony , Fred Feng , Brian Lin , Shan Bao , Feng Zhou

Pedestrians and bicyclists are among the vulnerable road users (VRUs) that are inherently exposed to intricate traffic scenarios, which puts them at increased risk of sustaining injuries or facing fatal outcomes. This study presents an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Faryal Aurooj Nasir , Salman Liaquat , Nor Muzlifah Mahyuddin

Micromobility is a growing mode of transportation, raising new challenges for traffic safety and planning due to increased interactions in areas where vulnerable road users (VRUs) share the infrastructure with micromobility, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Alexander Rasch , Rahul Rajendra Pai

Completely unmanned autonomous vehicles have been anticipated for a while. Initially, these are expected to drive only under certain conditions on some roads, and advanced functionality is required to cope with the ever-increasing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Walter Morales Alvarez , Miguel Ángel de Miguel , Fernando García , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Following detection and tracking of traffic actors, prediction of their future motion is the next critical component of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) technology, allowing the SDV to operate safely and efficiently in its environment. This is…

Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs), including pedestrians, cyclists, electric scooter riders, and motorcyclists, remains a major challenge for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and connected and automated vehicles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Zhitong He , Yaobin Chen , Brian King , Lingxi Li

The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is rapidly expanding to numerous cities. At the heart of AVs, the object detection module assumes a paramount role, directly influencing all downstream decision-making tasks by considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bimsara Pathiraja , Caleb Liu , Ransalu Senanayake

With the fast advancements of the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry, detection of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) using smartphones is critical for safety applications of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITSs). This study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Mohammed Elhenawy , Mahmoud Masoud , Andry Rakotonirainy , Hesham A. Rakha

Anticipating the intentions of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) is a critical challenge for safe autonomous driving (AD) and mobile robotics. While current research predominantly focuses on pedestrian crossing behaviors from a vehicle's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Max A. Buettner , Kanak Mazumder , Luca Koecher , Mario Finkbeiner , Sebastian Niebler , Fabian B. Flohr

Intersections where vehicles are permitted to turn and interact with vulnerable road users (VRUs) like pedestrians and cyclists are among some of the most challenging locations for automated and accurate recognition of road users' behavior.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hao Cheng , Li Feng , Hailong Liu , Takatsugu Hirayama , Hiroshi Murase , Monika Sester

Vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists are at the highest risk in the road traffic environment. Globally, over half of road traffic deaths are vulnerable road users. Although substantial efforts are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Nishanthi Dasanayaka , Khondokar Fida Hasan , Charles Wang , Yanming Feng

Anticipating the intentions of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists is critical for performing safe and comfortable driving maneuvers. This is the case for human driving and, thus, should be taken into account by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Zhijie Fang , Antonio M. López
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