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Accurate real time crime prediction is a fundamental issue for public safety, but remains a challenging problem for the scientific community. Crime occurrences depend on many complex factors. Compared to many predictable events, crime is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Bao Wang , Duo Zhang , Duanhao Zhang , P. Jeffery Brantingham , Andrea L. Bertozzi

In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of a spatial multiresolution analysis (SMA) method that behaves like a variable bandwidth kernel density estimation (KDE) method, for hazardous road segments identification (HRSI) and…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-16 Samer Katicha , John Khoury , Gerardo Flintsch

Existing aerial robot navigation systems typically plan paths around static and dynamic obstacles, but fail to adapt when a static obstacle suddenly moves. Integrating environmental semantic awareness enables estimation of potential risks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ziyi Zong , Xin Dong , Jinwu Xiang , Daochun Li , Zhan Tu

Accident prediction and timely preventive actions improve road safety by reducing the risk of injury to road users and minimizing property damage. Hence, they are critical components of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vipooshan Vipulananthan , Kumudu Mohottala , Kavindu Chinthana , Nimsara Paramulla , Charith D Chitraranjan

Many decision-making scenarios in modern life benefit from the decision support of artificial intelligence algorithms, which focus on a data-driven philosophy and automated programs or systems. However, crucial decision issues related to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xia Wang , Anda Liang , Jonathan Sprinkle , Taylor T. Johnson

Machine Learning (ML) models are increasingly integrated into safety-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicle platooning, to enable real-time decision-making. However, their inherent imperfection introduces a new class of failure:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Razieh Arshadizadeh , Mahmoud Asgari , Zeinab Khosravi , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Koorosh Aslansefat

In the past several years, road anomaly segmentation is actively explored in the academia and drawing growing attention in the industry. The rationale behind is straightforward: if the autonomous car can brake before hitting an anomalous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Beiwen Tian , Huan-ang Gao , Leiyao Cui , Yupeng Zheng , Lan Luo , Baofeng Wang , Rong Zhi , Guyue Zhou , Hao Zhao

The feasibility of collecting a large amount of expert demonstrations has inspired growing research interests in learning-to-drive settings, where models learn by imitating the driving behaviour from experts. However, exclusively relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jonathan Francis , Bingqing Chen , Weiran Yao , Eric Nyberg , Jean Oh

Reliable probability estimation is of crucial importance in many real-world applications where there is inherent (aleatoric) uncertainty. Probability-estimation models are trained on observed outcomes (e.g. whether it has rained or not, or…

We introduce CollisionPro, a pioneering framework designed to estimate cumulative collision probability distributions using temporal difference learning, specifically tailored to applications in robotics, with a particular emphasis on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Thomas Steinecker , Thorsten Luettel , Mirko Maehlisch

Cycling stress assessment, which quantifies cyclists' perceived stress imposed by the built environment and motor traffics, increasingly informs cycling infrastructure planning and cycling route recommendation. However, currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Bo Lin , Shoshanna Saxe , Timothy C. Y. Chan

Anticipating traffic accidents is a critical yet unresolved problem for autonomous driving, hindered by the inherent complexity of modeling interactions between road users and the limited availability of diverse, large-scale datasets. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Keqiang Li , Zhenning Li

Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury and death worldwide, necessitating data-driven approaches to understand and mitigate crash severity. This study introduces a curated dataset of more than 3 million people involved in…

Knowing and predicting dangerous factors within a scene are two key components during autonomous driving, especially in a crowded urban environment. To navigate safely in environments, risk assessment is needed to quantify and associate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

The safe trajectory planning of intelligent and connected vehicles is a key component in autonomous driving technology. Modeling the environment risk information by field is a promising and effective approach for safe trajectory planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zeyu Han , Mengchi Cai , Chaoyi Chen , Qingwen Meng , Guangwei Wang , Ying Liu , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

Traffic incidents remain a critical public safety concern worldwide, with Australia recording 1,300 road fatalities in 2024, which is the highest toll in 12 years. Similarly, the United States reports approximately 6 million crashes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Artur Grigorev , Khaled Saleh , Jiwon Kim , Adriana-Simona Mihaita

This paper presents a method for detecting and estimating vehicle speeds using PlanetScope SuperDove satellite imagery, offering a scalable solution for global vehicle traffic monitoring. Conventional methods such as stationary sensors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Maciej Adamiak , Yulia Grinblat , Julian Psotta , Nir Fulman , Himshikhar Mazumdar , Shiyu Tang , Alexander Zipf

This paper quantitatively investigates the crash severity of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) with spatially localized machine learning and macroscopic measures of the urban built environment. Extending beyond the microscopic effects of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Junfeng Jiao , Seung Gyu Baik , Seung Jun Choi , Yiming Xu

Various applications of advanced air mobility (AAM) in urban environments facilitate our daily life and public services. As one of the key issues of realizing these applications autonomously, path planning problem has been studied with main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Bizhao Pang , Xinting Hu , Wei Dai , Kin Huat Low

Smart roads have become an essential component of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The roadside perception technology, a critical aspect of smart roads, utilizes various sensors, roadside units (RSUs), and edge computing devices to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Rui Chen , Lu Gao , Yutian Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Yan Zhang