Publications [Google Scholar]

1. [TITS'25] Chain-of-Thought Guided Multimodal Large Language Models for Scene-Aware Accident Anticipation in Autonomous Driving.
   Haicheng Liao, Bin Rao, Haoyu Sun, Chengyue Wang, Qing Chang, Shengbo Eben Li, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025
   


2. [COMMTR'25] Domain-Enhanced Dual-Branch Model for Efficient and Interpretable Accident Anticipation.
   Yanchen Guan, Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Jiaxun Zhang, Jia Hu, Zhenning Li
   Communications in Transportation Research, 2025
   


3. [CICTP'25] Improving Visual Grounding for Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models.
   Haicheng Liao, Huanming Shen, Bonan Wang, Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao, Hao Yu, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
   COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, 2025 Best Paper Award
   


4. [CE'25] World Model-Based End-to-End Scene Generation for Accident Anticipation in Autonomous Driving.
   Yanchen Guan, Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Xingchen Liu, Jiaxun Zhang, Zhenning Li
   Communications Engineering, 2025
   


5. [Fusion'25] LATTE: Lightweight Attention-based Traffic Accident Anticipation Engine.
   Jiaxun Zhang, Yanchen Guan, Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao, Guohui Zhang, Zhenning Li
   Information Fusion, 2025


6. [MM'25] Eyes on the Road, Mind Beyond Vision: Context-Aware Multi-modal Enhanced Risk Anticipation.
   Jiaxun Zhang, Haicheng Liao, Yumu Xie, Chengyue Wang, Yanchen Guan, Bin Rao, Zhenning Li
   ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2025


7. [ICCV'25] AMD: Adaptive Momentum and Decoupled Contrastive Learning Framework for Robust Long-Tail Trajectory Prediction.
   Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao, Yanchen Guan, Chengyue Wang, Yanchen Guan, Bonan Wang, Jiaxun Zhang, Zhenning Li
   International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025


8. [TITS'25] Minds on the Move: Decoding Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving with Cognitive Insights.
   Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Kaiqun Zhu, Yilong Ren, Bolin Gao, Shengbo Eben Li, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025
   


9. [TAI'25] CoT-Drive: Efficient Motion Forecasting for Autonomous Driving with LLMs and Chain-of-Thought Prompting.
   Haicheng Liao, Hanlin Kong, Bonan Wang, Chengyue Wang, Ye Wang, Zhengbing He, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
   IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
   


10. [IJCAI'25] Beyond Patterns: Harnessing Causal Logic for Autonomous Driving Trajectory Prediction.
    Bonan Wang, Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Yanchen Guan, Bin Rao, Yuyang Gu, Jiaxun Zhang, Songning Lai, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025


11. [TPAMI'25] WAKE: Towards Robust and Physically Feasible Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles with WAvelet and KinEmatics Synergy.
    Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao, Zhenning Li, Chengzhong Xu
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2025
    


12. [Fusion'25] DEMO: A Dynamics-Enhanced Learning Model for Multi-Horizon Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Vehicles.
    Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao, Kaiqun Zhu, Guohui Zhang, Zhenning Li
    Information Fusion, 2025
    


13. [AAAI'25] NEST: A Neuromodulated Small-world Hypergraph Trajectory Prediction Model for Autonomous Driving.
    Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao, Bonan Wang, Yanchen Guan, Bin Rao, Ziyuan Pu, Zhiyong Cui, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
    Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Oral Presentation (600/12957 ≈ 4.6%)


14. [MM'24] When, Where, and What? A Novel Benchmark for Accident Anticipation and Localization with Large Language Models.
    Haicheng Liao, Yongkang Li, Chengyue Wang, Yanchen Guan, KaHou Tam, Chunlin Tian, Li Li, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024 Oral Presentation (174/4385 ≈ 3.9%)
    


15. [MM'24] CRASH: Crash Recognition and Anticipation System Harnessing with Context-Aware and Temporal Focus Attentions.
    Haicheng Liao, Haoyu Sun, Huanming Shen, Chengyue Wang, KaHou Tam, Chunlin Tian, Li Li, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024
    


16. [IJCAI'24] A Cognitive-Driven Trajectory Prediction Model for Autonomous Driving in Mixed Autonomy Environments.
    Haicheng Liao, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Hanlin Kong, Yanchen Guan, Zhiyong Cui, Chengzhong Xu
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
    


17. [IJCAI'24] MFTraj: Map-Free, Behavior-Driven Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving.
    Haicheng Liao, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Huanming Shen, Bonan Wang, Guofa Li, Chengzhong Xu
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
    


18. [IJCAI'24] Physics-Informed Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving under Missing Observation.
    Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Zhenning Li, Yongkang Li, Bonan Wang, Guofa Li, Chengzhong Xu
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
    


19. [IJCAI'24] Characterized Diffusion and Spatial-Temporal Interaction Network for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving.
    Haicheng Liao, Xuelin Li, Yongkang Li, Hanlin Kong, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Yanchen Guan, KaHou Tam, Zhenning Li
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
    Ranked #1 SSRN’s Top Downloads Papers (60 Days) in Robotics!
    


20. [TRC-30] Towards Human-like Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Cognitive-inspired Lightweight Model.
    Haicheng Liao, Yongkang Li, Yanchen Guan, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Zilin Bian, Ziyuan Pu, Jia Hu, Zhiyong Cui
    The 30th Anniversary of Transportation Research Part C, 2024 Oral Presentation
    


21. [ECAI'24] Less is More: Efficient Brain-Inspired Learning for Autonomous Driving Trajectory Prediction.
    Haicheng Liao, Yongkang Li, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Guofa Li, Chunlin Tian, Zilin Bian, Kaiqun Zhu, Zhiyong Cui, Jia Hu, Chengzhong Xu
    European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
    


22. [ICRA'24] Human Observation-Inspired Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Environments.
    Haicheng Liao, Shangqian Liu, Yongkang Li, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Yanchen Guan, Chengzhong Xu
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, 2024
    


23. [TIV'24] A Cognitive-Based Trajectory Prediction Approach for Autonomous Driving.
    Haicheng Liao, Yongkang Li, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Zhiyong Cui, Shengbo Eben Li, Chengzhong Xu
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024
    


24. [COMMTR'24] GPT-4 enhanced multimodal grounding for autonomous driving: Leveraging cross-modal attention with large language models.
    Haicheng Liao, Huanming Shen, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Guofa Li, Yiming Bie, Chengzhong Xu
    Communications in Transportation Research, 2024 The Most Cited Papers in COMMTR, 2024!
    


25. [ICTD'24] Prototype Data Dashboard for Multi-Source Transportation and Community Health Data Analytics.
    Chengyue Wang, Talha Azfar, Ruimin Ke
    International Conference on Transportation and Development, 2024
    


26. [AAP'24] Efficient and robust estimation of single-vehicle crash severity: A mixed logit model with heterogeneity in means and variances.
    Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao, Guofa Li, Chengzhong Xu
    Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2024
    


27. [ICTD'23] Incorporating Vehicle Detection Algorithms via Edge Computing on a Campus Digital Twin Model.
    Talha Azfar, Chengyue Wang, Ruimin Ke, Adeeba Raheem, Jeffrey Weidner, Ruey L Cheu
    International Conference on Transportation and Development, 2023