Kaiser Hamid to Present at the 105th TRB Annual Meeting

HIACE Lab Ph.D. student Kaiser, supervised by Dr. Nade Liang, will present his study titled “Driver Visual Attention Modeling via Vision-Language In-Context Learning” at the 105th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, to be held January 11–15, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

This research introduces a novel vision-language modeling framework to analyze how human drivers allocate visual attention across dynamic road environments. By combining large-scale visual data with language-driven context reasoning, the study models where and why drivers focus their attention under complex traffic scenarios. The findings aim to advance interpretable driver-attention prediction and support the design of safer, cognitively aware automated driving systems.

The work was co-authored with Dr. Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, whose collaboration and insights significantly enriched the study.