SAFE-CROSS

Secure AI-based Framework for Ensuring Crossing Safety

Duration and funding: 4 years – 300K€

SAFE-CROSS aims to design an autonomous portable surveillance system to reduce accidents in dangerous environments (platforms, rail/road crossings, bridges) or in temporary ones (roadworks). The integration of a system based on artificial intelligence to analyze suspicious behavior or anticipate collision risks will provide original and innovative solutions to the problem of surveillance.

 
   

Many dangerous areas persist despite the presence of safety systems such as signaling or physical barriers designed to prevent intrusions, still leading to accidents. It is clear that, despite these measures and the regulations in place, accidents continue to occur, often causing serious harm to individuals and significant disruptions to the affected activities. In the majority of cases, these accidents are caused by human errors that current systems are not designed to anticipate. However, recent advancements in detection, data acquisition, connected devices, computing, and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to prevent these human errors and react more quickly, enabling proactive measures before it is too late.

   

The widespread deployment of artificial intelligence in surveillance systems raises many questions about the explainability of these decision models, which are essential for understanding and trusting the information provided by these systems. Other challenges related to model learning, such as energy consumption and access to limited annotated learning data, remain largely unexplored in this research field. This includes the choice of sensors to cope with variable weather conditions and reduce the system’s energy consumption. The integration of these sensors requires adapting the learning models, offering an innovative approach compared to traditional surveillance systems that primarily rely on cameras or intrusive sensors placed directly on the road, which often require costly and difficult-to-implement road infrastructure adjustments.