In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most prominent fields in autonomous vehicles (AVs). With the help of AI, the stress levels of drivers have been reduced, as most of the work is executed by the AV itself. With the increasing complexity of models, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques work as handy tools that allow naive people and developers to understand the intricate workings of deep learning models. These techniques can be paralleled to AI to increase their interpretability. One essential task of AVs is to be able to follow the road. This paper attempts to justify how AVs can detect and segment the road on which they are moving using deep learning (DL) models. We trained and compared three semantic segmentation architectures for the task of pixel-wise road detection. Max IoU scores of 0.9459 and 0.9621 were obtained on the train and test set. Such DL algorithms are called “black box models” as they are hard to interpret due to their highly complex structures. Integrating XAI enables us to interpret and comprehend the predictions of these abstract models. We applied various XAI methods and generated explanations for the proposed segmentation model for road detection in AVs.

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A fall detection system is vital for the safety of older people, as it contacts emergency services when it detects a person has fallen. There have been various approaches to detect falls, such as using a single tri-axial accelerometer to detect falls or fixing sensors on the walls of a room to detect falls in a particular area. These approaches have two major drawbacks: either (i) they use a single sensor, which is insufficient to detect falls, or (ii) they are attached to a wall that does not detect a person falling outside its region. Hence, to provide a robust method for detecting falls, the proposed approach uses three different sensors for fall detection, which are placed at five different locations on the subject’s body to gather the data used for training purposes. The UMAFall dataset is used to attain sensor readings to train the models for fall detection. Five models are trained corresponding to the five sensors models, and a majority voting classifier is used to determine the output. Accuracy of 93.5%, 93.5%, 97.2%, 94.6%, and 93.1% is achieved on each of the five sensors models, and 92.54% is the overall accuracy achieved by the majority voting classifier. The XAI technique called LIME is incorporated into the system in order to explain the model’s outputs and improve the model’s interpretability.