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Suicide Risk Assessment from AI-powered Video Surveillance: An Interpretable Framework for Prevention in Metro Stations

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Pith's one-line read An interpretable framework assesses suicide risk in metro stations from surveillance video by accumulating evidence through person tracking, activity recognition, platform segmentation, and trajectory heatmaps instead of inferring intent.

desk verdict The paper outlines a multi-component pipeline for suicide risk scoring from metro video but the 83.2% ROC-AUC rests on an undefined labeling process for the positive cases, so the number cannot be interpreted yet. read the letter →

arxiv 2605.22904 v2 pith:J7COEMFW submitted 2026-05-21 cs.CV cs.AI

Safwen Naimi , Wassim Bouachir , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Brian Mishara This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords suicideriskassessmentvideosurveillancemetrostationspersontrackingactivityrecognitionsemanticsegmentationheatmapmodelinginterpretableframework
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The reading

The paper formalizes suicide risk assessment as a distinct task in metro station surveillance video. It presents an interpretable pipeline that jointly processes person tracking, activity recognition, semantic segmentation of the platform, and trajectory-driven risk heatmap modeling to build risk scores from accumulated behavioral cues over time. The approach is tested on real data, reaching 83.2 percent ROC-AUC. A sympathetic reader would care because the method aims to support timely intervention in suicide prevention by handling the spatial context and temporal dynamics that isolated subtasks miss.

What carries the argument

The interpretable pipeline that integrates person tracking, activity recognition, semantic segmentation of the platform, and trajectory-driven risk heatmap modeling to accumulate behavioral evidence over time and produce risk scores.

What would settle it

A controlled test on new metro surveillance footage in which the framework produces risk scores that do not correlate with actual recorded incidents or intervention outcomes at rates above random chance.

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Core claim

The authors introduce the first interpretable framework for Suicide Risk Assessment in metro stations that assesses risk from accumulated evidence by incorporating person tracking, activity recognition, semantic segmentation of the platform, and trajectory-driven risk heatmap modeling, achieving 83.2 percent ROC-AUC on real surveillance data rather than focusing on isolated subtasks or attempting to infer intent directly.

Load-bearing premise

The integrated pipeline of tracking, recognition, segmentation, and heatmap modeling can reliably assess suicide risk from video without direct intent inference, and the reported ROC-AUC indicates practical utility for prevention.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper formalizes the task of Suicide Risk Assessment (SRA) from metro station surveillance videos as distinct from isolated subtasks or direct intent inference. It proposes an interpretable framework that accumulates evidence via person tracking, activity recognition, semantic segmentation of the platform, and trajectory-driven risk heatmap modeling, and reports benchmarking a complete operational pipeline that achieves 83.2% ROC-AUC on real surveillance data.

Significance. If the validation details were supplied and the metric shown to be reliable, the work would be significant as one of the first end-to-end interpretable pipelines for this socially important application in computer vision. It correctly emphasizes accumulated behavioral and contextual cues over direct intent modeling and opens directions for AI for social good. The absence of any dataset construction, labeling protocol, or baseline comparison currently prevents assessing whether the result advances the state of the art.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract and Evaluation] Abstract (and the evaluation section it summarizes): the central claim that the pipeline 'achieves 83.2% ROC-AUC on real surveillance data' is load-bearing for the contribution, yet the manuscript supplies no information on dataset size, how ground-truth positive and negative suicide-risk events are defined independently of the model (e.g., incident logs, expert annotation criteria, temporal windows), train/test splits, cross-validation, baselines, or error analysis. Without an independent labeling protocol the reported AUC cannot be interpreted as evidence that the accumulated-evidence formulation measures the intended construct.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the framework is 'the first' without referencing prior related work on behavior analysis or risk modeling in surveillance; a brief related-work paragraph would improve context.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for acknowledging the potential significance of formalizing suicide risk assessment as a distinct task. We address the major comment on evaluation details below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Evaluation] Abstract (and the evaluation section it summarizes): the central claim that the pipeline 'achieves 83.2% ROC-AUC on real surveillance data' is load-bearing for the contribution, yet the manuscript supplies no information on dataset size, how ground-truth positive and negative suicide-risk events are defined independently of the model (e.g., incident logs, expert annotation criteria, temporal windows), train/test splits, cross-validation, baselines, or error analysis. Without an independent labeling protocol the reported AUC cannot be interpreted as evidence that the accumulated-evidence formulation measures the intended construct.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript currently provides insufficient details on the dataset and evaluation protocol. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection describing: the size and characteristics of the real surveillance dataset; the independent ground-truth labeling protocol (including use of incident logs, expert annotation criteria, and temporal windows for positive/negative events); the train/test splits and any cross-validation procedure; relevant baselines; and error analysis. These additions will allow readers to properly interpret the 83.2% ROC-AUC in the context of the accumulated-evidence formulation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No derivation chain or equations; framework is descriptive pipeline without self-referential reduction

full rationale

The paper describes an operational pipeline combining person tracking, activity recognition, semantic segmentation, and trajectory risk heatmaps to produce a risk score, benchmarked at 83.2% ROC-AUC. No equations, formal derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claim is an engineering integration validated on real data rather than a mathematical result that reduces to its inputs by construction. Absence of any load-bearing derivation steps means the analysis is self-contained with no circularity.

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Understanding and monitoring human behavior in metro stations play an important role in supporting suicide prevention efforts, where early identification of high-risk situations can enable timely intervention. This requires assessing suicide risk from a surveillance video by jointly reasoning about the behavior of each passenger, his/her spatial context, and temporal dynamics. However, this assessment using videos captured by surveillance cameras is challenging, as it demands accurate perception of human motion, understanding of platform geometry, and aggregation of heterogeneous behavioral cues over time. In this work, we formalize the task of Suicide Risk Assessment (SRA) in metro stations and introduce the first interpretable framework that addresses this challenge. Unlike approaches that focus on isolated subtasks or attempt to infer intent directly, our formulation assesses suicide risk from accumulated evidence by incorporating person tracking, activity recognition, semantic segmentation of the platform, and trajectory-driven risk heatmap modeling. By formalizing SRA as a distinct task and benchmarking a complete operational pipeline achieving 83.2% ROC-AUC on real surveillance data, this work highlights the complexity of suicide risk assessment and opens new directions for research on interpretable AI systems for social good.

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Figure 1. Architecture overview of our proposed SRA-Framework. It takes a video as input and outputs the complete platform state and a suicide risk assessment for each person. different areas of the platform may warrant preventive atten￾tion. It is influenced not only by what actions are performed, but also by where they occur and how long they persist. This formulation is consistent with operational safety practices, where d… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Overview of the Platform Semantics Modeling Process: (a–b) Boundary and Offset Lines Estimation, and (c) Final Zone Partitioning. Wt, providing high-level action cues for subsequent risk as￾sessment. In our SRA-Framework, we employ SSTAR pre￾trained on the ARMM dataset [Naimi et al., 2025], a skeleton￾based spatio-temporal action recognition model specifically designed for surveillance scenarios. In our case, SSTAR … view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Illustration of Individual At-Risk Heatmaps and their ag [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Feature importance of the eight risk indicators used for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative Results. Output predictions of two frames from surveillance video streams. high risk score (R0=0.98), driven by a combination of a pro￾longed crossing of the yellow line (11 seconds) and elevated position risk score along the position risk heatmap. Our sys￾…

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