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2025

  1. AgentThink: A Unified Framework for Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving
    Kangan Qian, Sicong Jiang, Yang Zhong, Ziang Luo, Zilin Huang, Tianze Zhu, Kun Jiang, Mengmeng Yang, Zheng Fu, Jinyu Miao, Yining Shi, He Zhe Lim, Li Liu, Tianbao Zhou, Huang Yu, Yifei Hu, Guang Li, Guang Chen, Hao Ye, Lijun Sun, and Diange Yang
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (EMNLP) , 2025
  2. Sustainability
    AI-Enabled Digital Twin Framework for Safe and Sustainable Intelligent Transportation
    Keke Long, Chengyuan Ma*, Hangyu Li, Zheng Li, Heye Huang, Haotian Shi, Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Lei Shi, Pei Li, Sikai Chen, and Xiaopeng Li
    Sustainability (Sustainability) , 2025
  3. Preprint
    VL-SAFE: Vision-Language Guided Safety-Aware Reinforcement Learning with World Models for Autonomous Driving
    Yansong Qu, Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Jiancong Chen, Sikai Chen*, and Samuel Labi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16377 (Preprint) , 2025
  4. Preprint
    EvaDrive: Evolutionary Adversarial Policy Optimization for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
    Siwen Jiao, Kangan Qian, Hao Ye, Yang Zhong, Ziang Luo, Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Yangyi Fang, Jinyu Miao, Zheng Fu, Yunlong Wang, Kun Jiang, Diange Yang, Rui Fan, and Baoyun Peng
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09158 (Preprint) , 2025
  5. Preprint
    MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases
    Ziang Luo, Kangan Qian, Jiahua Wang, Yuechen Luo, Jinyu Miao, Zheng Fu, Yunlong Wang, Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Yifei Hu, Yuhao Yang, Hao Ye, Mengmeng Yang, Xiaojian Dong, Kun Jiang, and Diange Yang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.20843 (Preprint) , 2025
  6. Preprint
    SEAL: Vision-Language Model-Based Safe End-to-End Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Long-Tail Modeling
    Junwei You, Pei Li, Zhuoyu Jiang, Zilin Huang, Rui Gan, Haotian Shi, and Bin Ran*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.21041 (Preprint) , 2025
  7. Preprint
    SafePLUG: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Pixel-Level Insight and Temporal Grounding for Traffic Accident Understanding
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, Yen-Jung Chen, Yansong Qu, Yuhao Luo, Yue Leng, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06763 (Preprint) , 2025
  8. JICV
    Sky-Drive: A Distributed Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Human-AI Collaborative and Socially-Aware Future Transportation 🔥🔥🔥
    Zilin Huang+, Zihao Sheng+, Zhengyang Wan+, Yansong Qu, Yuhao Luo, Boyue Wang, Pei Li, Yen-Jung Chen, Jiancong Chen, Keke Long, Jiayi Meng, Yue Leng, and Sikai Chen*
    Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (JICV) , 2025
  9. ICCV Workshop
    A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving 🔥🔥🔥
    Sicong Jiang+, Zilin Huang+, Kangan Qian+, Ziang Luo, Tianze Zhu, Yang Zhong, Yihong Tang, Menglin Kong, Yunlong Wang, Siwen Jiao, Hao Ye, Zihao Sheng, Xin Zhao, Tuopu Wen, Zheng Fu, Sikai Chen, Kun Jiang, Diange Yang, Seongjin Choi, and Lijun Sun
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop (ICCV Workshop) , 2025
  10. 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
  11. TR-C
    CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models 🔥🔥🔥
    Zihao Sheng+, Zilin Huang+, Yansong Qu, Yue Leng, Sruthi Bhavanam, and Sikai Chen*
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (TR-C) , 2025
  12. TR-C
    VLM-RL: A Unified Vision Language Models and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Safe Autonomous Driving 🔥🔥🔥
    Zilin Huang+, Zihao Sheng+, Yansong Qu+, Junwei You, and Sikai Chen*
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (TR-C) , 2025
  13. TR-C
    PE-RLHF: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and Physics Knowledge for Safe Autonomous Driving 🔥🔥🔥
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, and Sikai Chen*
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (TR-C) , 2025
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. COMMTR
    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
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2025

2024

  1. COMMTR
    Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving 🔥🔥🔥
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Chengyuan Ma, and Sikai Chen*
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2024
  2. 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
  3. IEEE-TITS
    Toward C-V2X Enabled Connected Transportation System: RSU-Based Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles 🔥🔥🔥
    Zilin Huang, Sikai Chen*, Yuzhuang Pian, Zihao Sheng, Soyoung Ahn, and David A Noyce
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-TITS) , 2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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

2022

  1. China Journal of Highway and Transport
    Game Analysis of Conflicts Between Pedestrians and Vehicular Traffic on Unsignalized Road Sections Based on Cumulative Prospect Theory
    Yuzhuang Pian, Lunhui Xu, Zilin Huang, and Yongjie Lin
    China Journal of Highway and Transport (China Journal of Highway and Transport) , 2022
  2. Applied Intelligence
    Deep spatial-temporal bi-directional residual optimisation based on tensor decomposition for traffic data imputation on urban road network
    Jinlong Li, Lunhui Xu, Ruonan Li, Pan Wu, and Zilin Huang
    Applied Intelligence (Applied Intelligence) , 2022
  3. Sustainability
    How Determinants Affect Transfer Ridership between Metro and Bus Systems: A Multivariate Generalized Poisson Regression Analysis Method
    Pan Wu, Jinlong Li, Yuzhuang Pian, Xiaochen Li*, Zilin Huang, Lunhui Xu, Guilin Li, and Ruonan Li
    Sustainability (Sustainability) , 2022
  4. Sensors
    ST-CRMF: Compensated Residual Matrix Factorization with Spatial-Temporal Regularization for Graph-Based Time Series Forecasting
    Jinlong Li, Pan Wu, Ruonan Li, Yuzhuang Pian, Zilin Huang, Lunhui Xu, and Xiaochen Li*
    Sensors (Sensors) , 2022
  5. ASCE-JTE
    Recognizing Real-Time Transfer Patterns between Metro and Bus Systems Based on Spatial–Temporal Constraints
    Pan Wu, Lunhui Xu, Jinlong Li, Hengcong Guo, and Zilin Huang
    Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems (ASCE-JTE) , 2022

2021

  1. JTTE
    RSSI positioning method of vehicles in tunnels based on semi-supervised extreme learning machine
    Yongjie Lin, Zilin Huang*, Pan Wu, and Lunhui Xu
    Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (JTTE) , 2021

2020

  1. Sensors
    Multi-Stage Pedestrian Positioning Using Filtered WiFi Scanner Data in an Urban Road Environment
    Zilin Huang, Lunhui Xu, and Yongjie Lin*
    Sensors (Sensors) , 2020
  2. JAT
    A Combined Deep Learning Method with Attention-Based LSTM Model for Short-Term Traffic Speed Forecasting
    Pan Wu, Zilin Huang, Yuzhuang Pian, Lunhui Xu, Jinlong Li, and Kaixun Chen
    Journal of Advanced Transportation (JAT) , 2020

2019

  1. ICTIS
    A novel WIFI-oriented RSSI signal processing method for tracking low-speed pedestrians
    Zilin Huang, Xianyuan Zhu, Yongjie Lin, Lunhui Xu, and Yadong Mao
    2019 5th International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS) (ICTIS) , 2019
  2. Appl. Sci.
    Citywide Metro-to-Bus Transfer Behavior Identification Based on Combined Data from Smart Cards and GPS
    Zilin Huang, Lunhui Xu, Yongjie Lin*, Pan Wu, and Bin Feng
    Applied Sciences (Appl. Sci.) , 2019
  3. ISICA
    Imputation Methods Used in Missing Traffic Data: A Literature Review
    Pan Wu, Lunhui Xu, and Zilin Huang
    International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA) , 2019