Human Factors and Safety Group & Virtuocity @ITSLeeds

New publication 📢 "Pedestrian crossing decisions can be explained by bounded optimal decision-making under noisy visual perception" by Yueyang Wang, Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Jussi P.P. Jokinen, Antti Oulasvirta, & Gustav Markkula. Highlights • A novel pedestrian model based on the computational rationality framework. • The model reproduces more empirical phenomena than existing models. • Pedestrian ‘biases’ can be understood as rational adaptations to human limitations. • Conditioning reinforcement learning policy on non-policy parameters is effective. • This work provides a foundation for more scalable pedestrian models. Full text: https://lnkd.in/d_Gf4dqM

Happy New Year! 🎉

🌟 Workshop on Computational Models of Human Road User Behavior for Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation 🌟 Models of road user behaviour are very important for testing and benchmarking of AVs, but there's a lot left to do in this space. Therefore, together with researchers from Waymo, Chalmers University of Technology, Delft University of Technology, New York University, and VERSES, we're organising a full day workshop on this topic at the 2025 IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2025, Baden-Baden, Germany). If you work in this space, we'd love to have you there, so save the date, and consider submitting an abstract or a full paper for a talk and/or poster at the workshop. Deadline Feb 16 for abstracts and Mar 30 for full papers. See the link below for a more complete description. More info, e.g. on invited speakers, to follow soon. Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions to me or the other organisers Shu-Yuan Liu, Jonas Bärgman, Julian Schumann, Daphne Cornelisse, Ran Wei

As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on a fantastic year for the Human Factors and Safety Group and Virtuocity. Highlights include celebrating our 30th anniversary, saying goodbye to our second-generation driving simulator, and preparing for the launch of our third-generation driving simulator in 2025. We're grateful for all our collaborations this year and look forward to an exciting 2025 with many events to come. All the best, and a happy new year to everyone! 🎉

As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on a fantastic year for the Human Factors and Safety Group and Virtuocity. Highlights include celebrating our 30th anniversary, saying goodbye to our second-generation driving simulator, and preparing for the launch of our third-generation driving simulator in 2025. We're grateful for all our collaborations this year and look forward to an exciting 2025 with many events to come. All the best, and a happy new year to everyone! 🎉

Great to see our group's research over the years being recognised. A big thank you to our collaborators and funders for enabling this impact! 🌿

We had the pleasure of hosting Amélie Reher from the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) at our group. A big thank you for the visit and the engaging discussions 🌿

We started the day by welcoming colleagues from the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom's Advanced Analytical Division to our research facility. The session kicked off with an engaging introductory presentation from Peter Woodthorpe, continued with a tour of the facility with İbrahim Öztürk, Yee Thung Lee, Hao Qin and Peter Woodthorpe, and concluded with presentations from Gustav Markkula and Mahdi Rezaei. Thank you for such a productive and engaging visit.

New publication: "AllWeather-Net: Unified Image Enhancement for Autonomous Driving Under Adverse Weather and Low-Light Conditions" by Chenghao Qian, Mahdi Rezaei, Saeed Anwar, Wenjing Li, Tanveer Hussain, Mohsen Azarmi, & Wei Wang. Full access: https://lnkd.in/d-Z7E5DU

Today, we welcome Silvia Francesca Varotto from the Ecole nationale des Travaux publics de l'Etat (ENTPE). Dr. Varotto shared fascinating insights from her cutting-edge research, sparking thought-provoking discussions 🚗💡 Here's to building stronger networks and advancing knowledge together! 🤝✨