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20202026
most citedWhen language and vision meet road safety: leveraging multimodal large language models for video-based traffic accident analysis

43 citations · 102 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.RO2026

SceneFactory-3D: Lifting 2D Traffic Scenes into 3D Physical Counterfactuals for Scalable Physically Grounded Safety Evaluation

Yicheng Zhu, Linfeng Tian, Tianmu Zhao +4

Scalable driving simulators typically execute vehicle commands using prescribed behavioral or kinematic rules, overlooking the physics of tire-road interfaces, thereby limiting the…

cs.CV2026

TerrainForge: Physics-Grounded Road Geometry Editing for Counterfactual Autonomous Driving

Yang Chen, Yicheng Zhu, zhenning Li +2

Road geometry (e.g., crests, sags, and speed humps) and surface conditions (e.g., wet or icy pavement) affect how vehicles move, what drivers and onboard cameras observe, and how m…

cs.RO2026

SIREN-Bench: Behavior-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Emergency-Vehicle Interactions

Yicheng Zhu, Tianmu Zhao, Haoxin Leng +3

Emergency vehicles (EMVs) can reorganize surrounding traffic as civilian vehicles brake, change lanes, or form rescue corridors in response to their passage. Evaluating these safet…

cs.CV2026

muSync-GS: Physics-Synchronized Driving Video Synthesis for Weather and Geometric Road Hazards

Yang Chen, Yicheng Zhu, Tao Li +1

High-quality driving data are essential for autonomous-driving systems and generative world models. However, rare and safety-critical scenarios involving adverse weather, braking u…

cs.RO2026

From Cues to Horizons: Dynamic Risk Horizon Profiling for Trajectory Prediction

Xinyi Ning, Zilin Bian, Dachuan Zuo +2

Accurate and reliable vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for safe autonomous driving. Recent studies have incorporated safety risk into trajectory prediction to quantify da…

cs.MA2026

Dynamic Deployment of Mobile Charging Trucks During Natural Disaster Evacuation: An Offline-to-Online Framework

Rui Ma, Zilin Bian, Kaan Ozbay

During large-scale evacuations, concentrated electric vehicle (EV) charging demand can overload fixed charging stations (FCSs), leading to prolonged waiting time and increased risk…

cs.MA2026

SceneFactory: GPU-Accelerated Multi-Agent Driving Simulation with Physics-Based Vehicle Dynamics

Yicheng Zhu, Yang Chen, Tao Li +1

Autonomous-driving simulators typically trade physical fidelity for scalable parallelism. Physics-based platforms such as CARLA and MetaDrive provide articulated vehicle dynamics a…

math.OC2026

Distributed Online Convex Optimization with Nonseparable Costs and Constraints

Zhaoye Pan, Haozhe Lei, Fan Zuo +2

This paper studies distributed online convex optimization with time-varying coupled constraints, motivated by distributed online control in network systems. Most prior work assumes…

cs.LG2025

STRAP: Spatial-Temporal Risk-Attentive Vehicle Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving

Xinyi Ning, Zilin Bian, Dachuan Zuo +1

Accurate vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for ensuring safety and efficiency in fully autonomous driving systems. While existing methods primarily focus on modeling obser…

cs.RO2025

Composite Safety Potential Field for Highway Driving Risk Assessment

Dachuan Zuo, Zilin Bian, Fan Zuo +1

In the era of rapid advancements in vehicle safety technologies, driving risk assessment has become a focal point of attention. Technologies such as collision warning systems, adva…

math.OC2025

Traffic Adaptive Moving-window Service Patrolling for Real-time Incident Management during High-impact Events

Haozhe Lei, Ya-Ting Yang, Tao Li +4

This paper presents the Traffic Adaptive Moving-window Patrolling Algorithm (TAMPA), designed to improve real-time incident management during major events like sports tournaments a…

cs.CV2025

Aligning Vision to Language: Annotation-Free Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction for Enhanced LLMs Reasoning

Junming Liu, Siyuan Meng, Yanting Gao +7

Multimodal reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) struggles with incomplete knowledge and hallucination artifacts, challenges that textual Knowledge Graphs (KGs) only partially…

cs.CV2025★ 43 cited

When language and vision meet road safety: leveraging multimodal large language models for video-based traffic accident analysis

Ruixuan Zhang, Beichen Wang, Juexiao Zhang +3

The increasing availability of traffic videos functioning on a 24/7/365 time scale has the great potential of increasing the spatio-temporal coverage of traffic accidents, which wi…

cs.CY2024

A multi-dimension and high-granularity equity measurement for transportation services through accessibility and reliability

Mengke, Ma, Zilin Bian +4

Transportation equity research has traditionally emphasized service accessibility and destination reachability while often overlooking the critical aspects of service quality, such…

cs.CV2024

Real-time Accident Anticipation for Autonomous Driving Through Monocular Depth-Enhanced 3D Modeling

Haicheng Liao, Yongkang Li, Chengyue Wang +7

The primary goal of traffic accident anticipation is to foresee potential accidents in real time using dashcam videos, a task that is pivotal for enhancing the safety and reliabili…

eess.SY2024★ 11 cited

Multi-level Traffic-Responsive Tilt Camera Surveillance through Predictive Correlated Online Learning

Tao Li, Zilin Bian, Haozhe Lei +5

In urban traffic management, the primary challenge of dynamically and efficiently monitoring traffic conditions is compounded by the insufficient utilization of thousands of survei…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Digital Twin-based Driver Risk-Aware Intelligent Mobility Analytics for Urban Transportation Management

Tao Li, Zilin Bian, Haozhe Lei +6

Traditional mobility management strategies emphasize macro-level mobility oversight from traffic-sensing infrastructures, often overlooking safety risks that directly affect road u…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Informed along the road: roadway capacity driven graph convolution network for network-wide traffic prediction

Zilin Bian, Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay +3

While deep learning has shown success in predicting traffic states, most methods treat it as a general prediction task without considering transportation aspects. Recently, graph n…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Traffic Prediction considering Multiple Levels of Spatial-temporal Information: A Multi-scale Graph Wavelet-based Approach

Zilin Bian, Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay +1

Although traffic prediction has been receiving considerable attention with a number of successes in the context of intelligent transportation systems, the prediction of traffic sta…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

A-TEAM: Advanced Traffic Event Analysis and Management Platform for Transportation Data-Driven Problem Solving

Zilin Bian, Dachuan Zuo, Jingqin Gao +2

The rapid growth in terms of the availability of transportation data provides great potential for the introduction of emerging data-driven methodologies into transportation-related…

eess.SY2024

Learning When to See for Long-term Traffic Data Collection on Power-constrained Devices

Ruixuan Zhang, Wenyu Han, Zilin Bian +2

Collecting traffic data is crucial for transportation systems and urban planning, and is often more desirable through easy-to-deploy but power-constrained devices, due to the unava…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 14 cited

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Transportation Systems in New York City and Seattle, USA

Jingqin Gao, Jingxing Wang, Zilin Bian +8

This paper continues to highlight trends in mobility and sociability in New York City (NYC), and supplements them with similar data from Seattle, WA, two of the cities most affecte…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 6 cited

Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on Transportation Systems: A Case Study of the U.S. Epicenter, the New York Metropolitan Area

Jingqin Gao, Suzana Duran Bernardes, Zilin Bian +2

The novel Coronavirus COVID-19 spreading rapidly throughout the world was recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. One month into the COVI…

cs.MA2020★ 15 cited

Agent-based Simulation Model and Deep Learning Techniques to Evaluate and Predict Transportation Trends around COVID-19

Ding Wang, Fan Zuo, Jingqin Gao +11

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected travel behaviors and transportation system operations, and cities are grappling with what policies can be effective for a phased reopening shaped…