A Semantic Observer Layer for Autonomous Vehicles: Pre-Deployment Feasibility Study of VLMs for Low-Latency Anomaly Detection

Kunal Runwal, Swaraj Gajare, Daniel Adejumo +3

Semantic anomalies-context-dependent hazards that pixel-level detectors cannot reason about-pose a critical safety risk in autonomous driving. We propose a \emph{semantic observer…