My Publications

2025

1. 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, 2025

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2. 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

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15119, 2025

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3. 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, 2025

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4. Physical enhanced residual learning (PERL) framework for vehicle trajectory prediction

   Keke Long,  Zihao Sheng, Haotian Shi, Xiaopeng Li, Sikai Chen, and Sue Ahn

   Communications in Transportation Research, 2025

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5. 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, 2025

2024

1. 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

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15544, 2024

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2. 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, 2024

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3. 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, 2024

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4. 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, 2024

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5. Trustworthy human-ai collaboration: Reinforcement learning with human feedback and physics knowledge for safe autonomous driving

   Zilin Huang,  Zihao Sheng, and Sikai Chen

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00858, 2024

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6. 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, 2024

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7. 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, 2024

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8. A distributed deep reinforcement learning-based longitudinal control strategy for connected automated vehicles combining attention mechanism

   Chunyu Liu,  Zihao Sheng, Pei Li, Sikai Chen, Xia Luo, and Bin Ran

   Transportation Letters, 2024

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2023

1. A cooperation-aware lane change method for automated vehicles

   Zihao Sheng, Lin Liu, Shibei Xue, Dezong Zhao, Min Jiang, and Dewei Li

   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023

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2. Longitudinal control of connected and automated vehicles among signalized intersections in mixed traffic flow with deep reinforcement learning approach

   Chunyu Liu,  Zihao Sheng, Sikai Chen, Haotian Shi, and Bin Ran

   Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023

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3. HRPose: Real-time high-resolution 6D pose estimation network using knowledge distillation

   Qi Guan,  Zihao Sheng, and Shibei Xue

   Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2023

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Earlier

1. Graph-based spatial-temporal convolutional network for vehicle trajectory prediction in autonomous driving

   Zihao Sheng, Yunwen Xu, Shibei Xue, and Dewei Li

   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022
   Highly Cited Paper by 2024

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2. Real-time queue length estimation with trajectory reconstruction using surveillance data

   Zihao Sheng, Shibei Xue, Yunwen Xu, and Dewei Li

   In 2020 16th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2020

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