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Global Disaster Risk Assessment Using World Risk Index Data: A Geospatial and Visual Analytics Approach

arXiv:2610.15064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The world has seen several threats that include resource depletion, food security, poverty and inequality, difficulties associated with urbanization, mi

researcharxiv-cs-cv

14 Oct 2026

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CityDeploy-Bench: Benchmarking Physics-Grounded Spatial Set Planning for Multi-Transmitter Network Deployment

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.11065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating city-scale wireless deployment remains challenging under complex urban propagation and network-wide interference. We introduce extbf{CityDepl

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

9 Oct 2026

In-Ride Alcohol-Impairment Detection in E-Scooterists with False-Alarm Control

arXiv:2610.11783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shared e-scooter services have become a widely adopted urban transport mode. While most users ride responsibly, alcohol intoxication stands out among th

9 Oct 2026

Puffin: Probabilistic Learning of Spatial Detail From Coarse Observations

arXiv:2610.11914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution socioeconomic variables are important for applications such as urban planning, public health, disaster response, and resource allocation

9 Oct 2026

Autonomous Driving Research Requires a Community-Driven Data Paradigm

arXiv:2610.08825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving has made remarkable progress, with recent AI advances enabling commercial deployments that are reshaping urban mobility. Yet the fiel

Controllable Crowd Generation through World-Model Planning

arXiv:2610.09438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowd simulation plays a central role in robot navigation, autonomous driving, and urban planning. For these applications, realistic simulation requires

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

HydroSphere: A Framework for Governed, Self-Healing Wastewater Infrastructure

arXiv:2610.08819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid industrialization and urban growth are increasing pressure on water quality and wastewater treatment systems, while conventional treatment plants

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Just for FUNS: LLM-Guided Spatio-Temporal Graph Node Generation for Forecasting Unobserved Node States

arXiv:2610.08818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatio-temporal forecasting is a cornerstone of logistics, urban planning, and intelligent transportation systems. However, constrained by deployment

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Bayesian Data Augmentation for DNN Retraining with Binomial Outcomes in Vision-Based UAV Landing

arXiv:2610.05674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In GPS-denied or cluttered urban environments, vision-based landing is essential for reliable UAV missions. Real-world landing sites are often unstruc

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

ReDiffNet: Differential RGB-Infrared Learning for Low-Light UAV Oriented Vehicle Detection

arXiv:2610.05074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-light UAV-based RGB-infrared oriented small-vehicle detection is important for nighttime traffic monitoring, emergency response, and urban inspectio

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

Synergizing Drone Delivery Order Pooling and Road Network Monitoring through Monitoring-Task Orderization

arXiv:2610.05270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates the real-time dispatch of a shared drone fleet for on-demand food delivery and urban road network monitoring. We consider a co

agentsarxiv-cs-lg

Hardware

Vision Transformer Ensembles for Panoramic Street Segmentation

arXiv:2610.06063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic segmentation of street panoramas can support detailed descriptions of urban environments, yet small datasets and unequal training costs make mo

hardwarearxiv-cs-cv

Physical AI Smart Spaces: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Multi-Camera 3D Perception in Smart Spaces

arXiv:2610.02580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI Smart Spaces is, to the best of our knowledge, the first benchmark to simultaneously provide large-scale, multi-class, and multi-camera 3D p

5 Oct 2026

Smart Sensing for Safer Bridges: From Sensor Signals to AI-Driven Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2610.03082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridges contribute significantly to transportation connectivity and urban development. Therefore, reliable bridge monitoring is crucial for protecting p

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

5 Oct 2026

Less is more: error-distance scaling relation for data-efficient kilometer-scale downscaling of extreme heat

arXiv:2609.40140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extreme heat is where urban adaptation needs kilometer-scale data the most, but the simulations training a downscaler can cost more than they save, an

1 Oct 2026

CrossTimeEdit: A Decade-Spanning Cross-View Dataset and Reward-Guided Editing for Historical Street-View Generation

arXiv:2609.36616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical street-view imagery records urban evolution, but uneven coverage leaves substantial gaps in historical records. Generating plausible past app

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

30 Sept 2026

UniBuild: Unified Building Mapping From Multi-Source Optical Remote Sensing Imagery With Detail Decoding and Geometry Regularization

arXiv:2609.37031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building extraction from optical remote sensing (RS) imagery is fundamental to urban mapping, yet existing methods are often dataset-specific and genera

30 Sept 2026

A Game-Theoretic Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning Framework for Collaborative Public Resource Allocation

arXiv:2510.26184v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Public resource allocation involves distributing resources, including urban infrastructure, energy, and transportation, which are typically limited

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Coordinated Lane-Level Variable Speed Limits and Ramp Metering for Successive Weaving Segments Considering Merging/Diverging Risks: A Hybrid Model Predictive Control and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

arXiv:2609.35152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Successive weaving segments (SWSs) on urban expressways are bottlenecks prone to recurrent congestion and collisions, requiring fine-grained active tr

agentsarxiv-cs-lg

Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Acoustic Pedestrian Detection

arXiv:2609.31785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-only pedestrian detection is attractive for urban sensing but limited by weak acoustic cues. An appealing strategy is cross-modal knowledge dist

One Perception, All Maneuvers: Directional Traffic Signal Understanding for Maneuver-Level Signal Intent Prediction

arXiv:2609.32316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic lights are a key regulatory signal for autonomous driving at urban intersections, yet existing traffic signal perception is still predominantly

Task-Oriented Communications for Edge-Assisted Multi-View Localization

arXiv:2609.35173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) often lose satellite positioning in urban canyons, indoor facilities, and jammed o

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

INTERACT: Interactive Planning for Autonomous Driving via Anchor-Conditioned Prediction and Trust-Region Refinement

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2609.31137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving in dense urban traffic is interactive: whether a merge or an unprotected turn succeeds depends on how surrounding agents respond to the ego vehi

28 Sept 2026

Tutorials

From Change Captions to Change Detection: Semantic-Appearance Agreement Framework for Remote Sensing Change Detection

arXiv:2609.28192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) is essential for monitoring land-cover changes and urban development. However, most methods demand pixel-level ch

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

24 Sept 2026

Reflection-Aware Reasoning for Non-Line-of-Sight Pedestrian Localization

arXiv:2609.27346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable localization of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) pedestrians is critical for safe urban autonomous driving, yet it remains highly challenging in ego-dy

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

24 Sept 2026

Reinforcement Learning for Delivery Drone-Based Participatory Sensing in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2607.18874v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for urban sensing has emerged as a powerful paradigm to monitor the status of the city, e.g., air quality and no

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

23 Sept 2026

Efficient LLM Distillation for Bangladesh Legal Context: A Smartphone-Compatible Retrieval-Augmented Generation Model

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.24177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legal information in Bangladesh is inaccessible to most citizens. Statutory text is English-only, trained lawyers are concentrated in urban centres, and

MMS-VPR: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Street-Level Visual Place Recognition Dataset and Evaluation Benchmark for Dense Pedestrian Environments

arXiv:2505.12254v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing visual place recognition (VPR) datasets predominantly rely on vehicle-mounted imagery, offer limited multimodal diversity, and underreprese

Modelling daily activity patterns from mobile phone location data via deep representation learning

arXiv:2609.22121v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Passively collected mobile phone location data provide large-scale, longitudinal observations of human mobility but do not directly reveal activity purp

Vision-Wireless Fusion for Multi-User Localization: A Cross-Modal Transformer Approach

arXiv:2609.23372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate multi-user localization is challenging in complex urban environments, where wireless measurements can become ambiguous under noise, blockage, a

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

FedeRICo: Federated Region-Influenced Coupling for Traffic Flow Prediction

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2609.20026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban traffic forecasting often relies on information distributed across stakeholders who may be unable to share raw data due to privacy or commercial c

18 Sept 2026

HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration

arXiv:2609.19803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent heterogeneous air-ground robot teams are attractive for open world search, with applications for reconnaissance, urban search and rescue mis

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

18 Sept 2026

Learning Reliable Parking Policies via Offline Reinforcement Learning with Quantized Action Representations

arXiv:2609.19894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parking is a routine yet safety-critical task for autonomous vehicles operating in urban environments. However, cluttered and weakly structured parking

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

18 Sept 2026

Beyond Direct Sensing: Harnessing Indirect Observations from Third-Party Sensors in Vehicle Tracking

arXiv:2609.18173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vehicle tracking is fundamental to applications ranging from urban mobility and public safety to security and defense. Conventional tracking relies on

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

17 Sept 2026

Can VLMs Reliably Assess Sidewalk Accessibility Attributes from Pedestrian-Level Imagery?

arXiv:2609.17882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An important component of urban accessibility, particularly for wheelchair users and people with reduced mobility, is sidewalk compliance with measura

17 Sept 2026

ASTRIL-MPC: Autonomous Traversal Framework of Articulated Tracked Robots with Language-Guided Neural-Kinematic MPC

arXiv:2609.13083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In urban search and rescue, articulated tracked robots (ATRs) must traverse structured but contact-rich environments such as stairwells and cluttered bu

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

14 Sept 2026

RouteRepair: Instance-Level Failure Diagnosis and Targeted Repair in LLM-Based Automated Heuristic Design for Routing Optimization

arXiv:2609.11452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient routing optimization is essential to freight transportation, urban logistics, and shared mobility, where high-quality heuristics are often req

researcharxiv-cs-ai

12 Sept 2026

Guided Super-Resolution of Digital Elevation Models with Diffusion-Based Image Generators

arXiv:2609.11886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution digital surface models (DSMs) play an important role in urban analysis, 3D building reconstruction, and infrastructure monitoring, yet t

researcharxiv-cs-cv

11 Sept 2026

A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.09650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated considerable potential for autonomous driving decision-making. However, its deployment in urban autonomous

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

10 Sept 2026

StreetDiff: Multi-view Street Scenes Generation via Cross-view Consistent Multi-view Stable Diffusion with Structure Prompts

arXiv:2609.09890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view diffusion models have shown strong performance in scenes with strong geometric priors and sparse semantics, such as indoor rooms or simple ou

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

10 Sept 2026

AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2609.08442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation requires drones to follow natural-language instructions and navigate through complex urban environments. Accurate

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

Hyperspectral Trajectory Image for Multi-Month Trajectory Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2603.25255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Trajectory anomaly detection underpins applications from fraud detection to urban mobility analysis. Dense GPS methods preserve fine-grained evidenc

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

Re-engineering SORT-based algorithms for low-cost small object tracking from omnidirectional footage

arXiv:2609.07547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) has advanced rapidly in urban surveillance and autonomous driving, yet many trackers rely on ReID- and transformer-based app

Sparse Gain Radio Map Reconstruction With Geometry Priors and Uncertainty-Guided Measurement Selection

arXiv:2604.05788v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Radio maps are important for environment-aware wireless communication, network planning, and radio resource optimization. However, dense radio map c

Towards Embodied Air-Ground Cooperative Object Search: Benchmark, Dataset and Agentic Method

arXiv:2609.08402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air-Ground Object Search (AGOS) in urban environments is a challenging embodied task, which requires an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Unmanned Gr

TrajMind: Chaining Role-Specialized LoRAs for Fast-and-Slow Collective Trajectory Anomaly Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.02540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing collective anomalies from urban trajectories is increasingly important for traffic governance, as it reveals what happened, who was involved,

3 Sept 2026

VIPS: Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative Planning Benchmark via Pseudo-Simulation

arXiv:2609.02462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving in urban environments requires robust decision-making under partial observability and complex multi-agent interactions. Se

3 Sept 2026

BinWalker: Development and Field Evaluation of a Quadruped Manipulator Platform for Sustainable Litter Collection