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2025

  1. CVPR Workshop
    Talk2Traffic: Interactive and Editable Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Model
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, Yansong Qu, Yue Leng, and Sikai Chen*
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (CVPR Workshop) , 2025
  2. Preprint
    CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
    Zihao Sheng+, Zilin Huang+, Yansong Qu, Yue Leng, Sruthi Bhavanam, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15119 (Preprint) , 2025
  3. COMMTR
    MetaSSC: Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion for Autonomous Driving through Meta-Learning and Long-sequence Modeling
    Yansong Qu, Zixuan Xu, Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Tiantian Chen, and Sikai Chen*
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2025
  4. CACIE
    An unstructured single-layer optimization approach for flexible right-of-way allocation and cooperative trajectory planning at signalized intersections
    Qichao Liu, Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, and Sikai Chen*
    Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE) , 2025
  5. Preprint
    FASIONAD++: Integrating High-Level Instruction and Information Bottleneck in FAst-Slow fusION Systems for Enhanced Safety in Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Feedback
    Kangan Qian, Ziang Luo, Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Jinyu Miao, Zhikun Ma, Tianze Zhu, Jiayin Li, Yangfan He, Zheng Fu, Yining Shi, Boyue Wang, Hezhe Lin, Ziyu Chen*, Jiangbo Yu, Xinyu Jiao, Mengmeng Yang, Kun Jiang*, and Diange Yang*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08162 (Preprint) , 2025
  6. IEEE-ITSM
    Personalizing Driver Agent Using Large Language Models for Driving Safety and Smarter Human-Machine Interactions
    Zixuan Xu, Tiantian Chen*, Zilin Huang, Yang Xing, and Sikai Chen*
    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IEEE-ITSM) , 2025

2024

  1. Preprint
    VLM-RL: A Unified Vision Language Models and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Safe Autonomous Driving πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
    Zilin Huang+, Zihao Sheng+, Yansong Qu+, Junwei You, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15544 (Preprint) , 2024
  2. Preprint
    Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and Physics Knowledge for Safe Autonomous Driving πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00858 (Preprint) , 2024
  3. COMMTR
    Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Chengyuan Ma, and Sikai Chen*
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2024
  4. COMMTR
    Traffic expertise meets residual RL: Knowledge-informed model-based residual reinforcement learning for CAV trajectory control
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, and Sikai Chen*
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2024
  5. IEEE-TITS
    Toward C-V2X Enabled Connected Transportation System: RSU-Based Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
    Zilin Huang, Sikai Chen*, Yuzhuang Pian, Zihao Sheng, Soyoung Ahn, and David A Noyce
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-TITS) , 2024
  6. CACIE
    Ego-planning-guided multi-graph convolutional network for heterogeneous agent trajectory prediction
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, and Sikai Chen*
    Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE) , 2024
  7. JICV
    Kinematics-aware multigraph attention network with residual learning for heterogeneous trajectory prediction
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, and Sikai Chen*
    Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (JICV) , 2024
  8. Preprint
    V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models
    Junwei You+, Haotian Shi*, Zhuoyu Jiang+, Zilin Huang+, Rui Gan, Keshu Wu, Xi Cheng, Xiaopeng Li, and Bin Ran
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09251 (Preprint) , 2024
  9. Preprint
    FollowGen: A Scaled Noise Conditional Diffusion Model for Car-Following Trajectory Prediction
    Junwei You, Rui Gan, Weizhe Tang, Zilin Huang, Jiaxi Liu, Zhuoyu Jiang, Haotian Shi*, Keshu Wu, Keke Long, Sicheng Fu, Sikai Chen*, and Bin Ran
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16747 (Preprint) , 2024
  10. IEEE-TITS
    Exploring Driving Behavior for Autonomous Vehicles Based on Gramian Angular Field Vision Transformer
    Junwei You, Ying Chen*, Zhuoyu Jiang, Zhangchi Liu, Zilin Huang, Yifeng Ding, and Bin Ran
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-TITS) , 2024

2023

  1. Sustainability
    A taxonomy for autonomous vehicles considering ambient road infrastructure
    Sikai Chen*, Shuya Zong, Tiantian Chen, Zilin Huang, Yanshen Chen, and Samuel Labi
    Sustainability (Sustainability) , 2023
  2. JAT
    Wi-CL: Low-Cost WiFi-Based Detection System for Nonmotorized Traffic Travel Mode Classification
    Runnan Xu, Zilin Huang*, Sikai Chen, Jinlong Li, Pan Wu, and Yongjie Lin
    Journal of Advanced Transportation (JAT) , 2023
  3. NCAA
    Dynamic adaptive generative adversarial networks with multi-view temporal factorizations for hybrid recovery of missing traffic data
    Jinlong Li, Ruonan Li, Zilin Huang, Pan Wu, and Lunhui Xu*
    Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA) , 2023