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| OpenAnnotate3D: Open-Vocabulary Auto-Labeling System for Multi-modal 3D Data | 2023-10 | ICRA 2024 | GitHub | API&RTX4090 | 19 |
| On the Road with GPT-4V(ision): Early Explorations of Visual-Language Model on Autonomous Driving | 2023-11 | ICIL 2024 Workshop on Large Language Models for Agents | GitHub | - | 105 |
| Talk2BEV: Language-enhanced Bird's-eye View Maps for Autonomous Driving | 2023-11 | ICRA 2024 | GitHub | A100 | 114 |
| LLM Multimodal Traffic Accident Forecasting | 2023-11 | Sensors 2023 MDPI | - | - | 98 |
| NuScenes-MQA: Integrated Evaluation of Captions and QA for Autonomous Driving Datasets using Markup Annotations | 2024-01 | WACVW LLVM-AD 2024 | GitHub | 8xA100 | 35 |
| Is it safe to cross? Interpretable Risk Assessment with GPT-4V for Safety-Aware Street Crossing | 2024-02 | UR 2024 | - | - | 22 |
| Multi-Frame, Lightweight & Efficient Vision-Language Models for Question Answering in Autonomous Driving | 2024-03 | VLADR 2024 | GitHub | RTX 3090Ti&V100 | 55 |
| Embodied Understanding of Driving Scenarios (ELM) | 2024-03 | ECCV 2024 | GitHub | - | 0 |
| LATTE: A Real-time Lightweight Attention-based Traffic Accident Anticipation Engine | 2024-04 | Information Fusion (Elsevier) | - | RTX4080 | 3 |
| OmniDrive: A Holistic Vision-Language Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Counterfactual Reasoning | 2024-05 | CVPR 2025 | GitHub | - | 47 |
| Hard Cases Detection in Motion Prediction by Vision-Language Foundation Models | 2024-05 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Reason2Drive: Towards Interpretable and Chain-based Reasoning for Autonomous Driving | 2024-06 | ECCV 2024 | GitHub | 8xV100 | 118 |
| ConnectGPT: Connect Large Language Models with Connected and Automated Vehicles | 2024-06 | IV 2024 | - | - | 21 |
| SimpleLLM4AD: An End-to-End Vision-Language Model with Graph Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Driving | 2024-07 | arXiv | - | - | 14 |
| Large Language Models Powered Context-aware Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving | 2024-07 | IROS 2024 | GitHub | API | 13 |
| DriveGenVLM: Real-world Video Generation for Vision Language Model based Autonomous Driving | 2024-08 | IAVVC 2024 | - | L4 | 13 |
| V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models | 2024-08 | arXiv | - | RTX4090 | 46 |
| Multi-Frame Vision-Language Model for Long-form Reasoning in Driver Behavior Analysis | 2024-08 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Think-Driver: From Driving-Scene Understanding to Decision-Making with Vision Language Models | 2024-09 | ECCV 2024 Workshop | - | 4xRTX4090 | 4 |
| Can LVLMs Obtain a Driver's License? A Benchmark Towards Reliable AGI for Autonomous Driving | 2024-09 | AAAI 2025 | Project | - | 0 |
| ContextVLM: Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Context Understanding for Autonomous Driving using Vision Language Models | 2024-09 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Efficient Driving Behavior Narration and Reasoning on Edge Device Using Large Language Models | 2024-09 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| VLM-Auto: VLM-based Autonomous Driving Assistant with Human-like Behavior and Understanding for Complex Road Scenes | 2024-10 | FLLM 2024 | GitHub | RTX4090 | 41 |
| Visual Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving | 2024-11 | arXiv | - | A800 | 19 |
| Automated Evaluation of Large Vision-Language Models on Self-driving Corner Cases | 2024-12 | WACV 2025 | GitHub | 8xA800 | 33 |
| SFF Rendering-Based Uncertainty Prediction using VisionLLM | 2024-12 | AAAI 2025 Workshop LM4Plan | - | A100 | 3 |
| AutoTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness in Large Vision Language Models for Autonomous Driving | 2024-12 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data, and Metric Perspectives | 2025-01 | ICCV 2025 | GitHub | 8xA800 | 28 |
| Enhancing Large Vision Model in Street Scene Semantic Understanding through Leveraging Posterior Optimization Trajectory | 2025-01 | arXiv | - | 2xRTX4090 | 7 |
| Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Scene Graphs for Traffic Accident Understanding | 2025-01 | IAVVC 2024 | - | - | 15 |
| DriveLM: Driving with Graph Visual Question Answering | 2025-01 | ECCV 2024 | GitHub | 8xV100 | 473 |
| Scenario Understanding of Traffic Scenes Through Large Visual Language Models | 2025-01 | WACV 2025 | - | A100 | 7 |
| Application of Vision-Language Model to Pedestrian Behavior and Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving | 2025-01 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| INSIGHT: Enhancing Autonomous Driving Safety through Vision-Language Models on Context-Aware Hazard Detection and Edge Case Evaluation | 2025-02 | arXiv | - | A6000 | 8 |
| Evaluating Multimodal Vision-Language Model Prompting Strategies for Visual Question Answering in Road Scene Understanding | 2025-02 | WACV workshop 2025 | - | RTX4090 | 14 |
| Vision-Integrated LLMs for Autonomous Driving Assistance: Human Performance Comparison and Trust Evaluation | 2025-02 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| NuGrounding: A Multi-View 3D Visual Grounding Framework in Autonomous Driving | 2025-03 | arXiv | - | - | 4 |
| Fine-Grained Evaluation of Large Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving | 2025-03 | ICCV 2025 | GitHub | 8xV100 | 10 |
| AutoDrive-QA- Automated Generation of Multiple-Choice Questions for Autonomous Driving Datasets Using Large Vision-Language Models | 2025-03 | arXiv | GitHub | 3xA6000 | 4 |
| DriveLMM-o1: A Step-by-Step Reasoning Dataset and Large Multimodal Model for Driving Scenario Understanding | 2025-03 | arXiv | GitHub | 4xA6000 | 20 |
| ORION: A Holistic End-to-End Autonomous Driving Framework by Vision-Language Instructed Action Generation | 2025-03 | arXiv | GitHub | 32xA800 | 50 |
| ChatBEV: A Visual Language Model that Understands BEV Maps | 2025-03 | arXiv | - | - | 2 |
| Robusto-1 Dataset: Comparing Humans and VLMs on real out-of-distribution Autonomous Driving VQA from Peru | 2025-03 | arXiv | GitHub | A100&API | 2 |
| Evaluation of Safety Cognition Capability in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving | 2025-03 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| ST-VLM: Kinematic Instruction Tuning for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models | 2025-03 | arXiv | Project | - | 0 |
| Retrieval-Based Interleaved Visual Chain-of-Thought in Real-World Driving Scenarios | 2025-04 | arXiv | GitHub | 4xA100 | 6 |
| ReasonDrive: Efficient Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Vehicles with Reasoning-Enhanced Small Vision-Language Models | 2025-04 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Vision Foundation Model Embedding-Based Semantic Anomaly Detection | 2025-05 | ICRA 2025 Workshop | - | - | 3 |
| OpenLKA: An Open Dataset of Lane Keeping Assist from Recent Car Models under Real-world Driving Conditions | 2025-05 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 3 |
| SURDS: Benchmarking Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Driving Scenarios with Vision Language Models | 2025-05 | NeurIPS 2025 | GitHub | 8xA800 | 6 |
| Extending Large Vision-Language Model for Diverse Interactive Tasks in Autonomous Driving | 2025-05 | arXiv | GitHub | 8xA800 | 5 |
| Bridging Human Oversight and Black-box Driver Assistance: Vision-Language Models for Predictive Alerting in Lane Keeping Assist systems | 2025-05 | arXiv | - | - | 3 |
| AgentThink: A Unified Framework for Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving | 2025-05 | EMNLP Findings 2025 | GitHub | - | 0 |
| FutureSightDrive: Thinking Visually with Spatio-Temporal CoT for Autonomous Driving | 2025-06 | NeurIPS 2025 | - | 8xA6000 | 65 |
| Case-based Reasoning Augmented Large Language Model Framework for Decision Making in Realistic Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios | 2025-06 | arXiv | - | API | 1 |
| Structured Labeling Enables Faster Vision-Language Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving | 2025-06 | arXiv | - | 8xRTX4090 | 2 |
| DriveAction: A Benchmark for Exploring Human-like Driving Decisions in VLA Models | 2025-06 | arXiv | Dataset | - | 0 |
| Box-QAymo: Box-Referring VQA Dataset for Autonomous Driving | 2025-07 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| DriveMRP: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Synthetic Motion Data for Motion Risk Prediction | 2025-07 | arXiv | GitHub | 8xH100 | 0 |
| SafeDriveRAG: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving with Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation | 2025-07 | ACMMM 2025 | GitHub | - | 3 |
| DRAMA-X: A Fine-grained Intent Prediction and Risk Reasoning Benchmark For Driving | 2025-08 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 2 |
| NuRisk: A Visual Question Answering Dataset for Agent-Level Risk Assessment in Autonomous Driving | 2025-09 | ICRA | - | API&RTX5090 | 1 |
| DriveAgent-R1: Advancing VLM-based Autonomous Driving with Active Perception and Hybrid Thinking | 2025-09 | arXiv | - | API&8xH20 | 1 |
| Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving through Task-Specific Prompting and Spatial Reasoning | 2025-09 | IROS 2025 RoboSense | GitHub | API | 0 |
| Are VLMs Ready for Lane Topology Awareness in Autonomous Driving? | 2025-09 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| More Than Meets the Eye? Uncovering the Reasoning-Planning Disconnect in Training Vision-Language Driving Models | 2025-10 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| STRIDE-QA: Visual Question Answering Dataset for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Urban Driving Scenes | 2025-10 | AAAI 2026 | GitHub | 16xH100 | 3 |
| VLR-Driver: Large Vision-Language-Reasoning Models for Embodied Autonomous Driving | 2025-10 | ICCV 2025 | - | - | 0 |
| Hierarchical Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Incident Reports from Dashcam Videos | 2025-10 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| WaymoQA: A Multi-View Visual Question Answering Dataset for Safety-Critical Reasoning in Autonomous Driving | 2025-11 | arXiv | - | 8xA6000 | 0 |
| A TOOL FOR BENCHMARKING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS’ ROBUSTNESS IN ASSESSING THE REALISM OF DRIVING SCENARIOS | 2025-11 | arXiv | - | API | 0 |
| V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models | 2025-11 | arXiv | - | RTX 4090 | 49 |
| RoadBench: Benchmarking MLLMs on Fine-Grained Spatial Understanding and Reasoning under Urban Road Scenarios | 2025-11 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Is Your VLM for Autonomous Driving Safety-Ready? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating External and In-Cabin Risks | 2025-11 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Toward Automatic Safe Driving Instruction: A Large-Scale Vision Language Model Approach | 2025-11 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| RoadSceneVQA: Benchmarking Visual Question Answering in Roadside Perception Systems for Intelligent Transportation System | 2025-12 | arXiv | GitHub | 4xA100 | 0 |
| OmniDrive-R1: Reinforcement-driven Interleaved Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought for Trustworthy Vision-Language Autonomous Driving | 2025-12 | arXiv | - | 16xA800 | 0 |
| Counterfactual VLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning | 2025-12 | CVPR 2026 | - | - | 0 |
| Semantic-Drive: Democratizing Long-Tail Data Curation via Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Neuro-Symbolic VLM Consensus | 2025-12 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Vision-Based Natural Language Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving: An Extended Dataset and a New Model for Traffic Scene Description Generation | 2026-01 | arXiv | - | A100 | 0 |
| AutoDriDM: An Explainable Benchmark for Decision-Making of Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving | 2026-01 | arXiv | - | A100 | 0 |
| ScenePilot-Bench: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluation of Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving | 2026-01 | arXiv | GitHub | 4xA800 | 0 |
| Vision and Language: Novel Representations and Artificial intelligence for Driving Scene Safety Assessment and Autonomous Vehicle Planning | 2026-02 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| DRIV-EX: Counterfactual Explanations for Driving LLMs | 2026-02 | arXiv | - | 20xA100 | 0 |
| DriveCombo: Benchmarking Compositional Traffic Rule Reasoning in Autonomous Driving | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| DriveCode: Domain Specific Numerical Encoding for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 8xH100 | 0 |
| Probing Visual Concepts in Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Automated Driving | 2026-03 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird’s-Eye View Representations | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 8xH100 | 0 |
| Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 8xH100 | 0 |
| Comparative Analysis of Patch Attack on VLM-Based Autonomous Driving Architectures | 2026-03 | arXiv | IV 2025 | - | 0 |
| More than the Sum: Panorama-Language Models for Adverse Omni-Scenes | 2026-03 | CVPR2026 | - | https://github.com/InSAI-Lab/PanoVQA | 0 |
| Probing the Reliability of Driving VLMs: From Inconsistent Responses to Grounded Temporal Reasoning | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 4xA100 | 0 |
| Are Video Reasoning Models Ready to Go Outside? | 2026-03 | arXiv | GitHub | 4xA100 | 0 |
| WorldVLM: Combining World Model Forecasting and Vision-Language Reasoning | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 4xA40 | 0 |
| VLM-AutoDrive: Post-Training Vision-Language Models for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving Events | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 32xH100 | 0 |
| KLDrive: Fine-Grained 3D Scene Reasoning for Autonomous Driving based on Knowledge Graph | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | A6000 | 0 |
| DRIVINGVQA: A Dataset for Interleaved Visual Chain-of-Thought in Real-World Driving Scenarios | 2026-03 | ECAL 2026 | GitHub | 4xA100 | 0 |
| 3DCity-LLM: Empowering Multi-modality Large Language Models for 3D City-scale Perception and Understanding | 2026-03 | arXiv | GitHub | A100 | 0 |
| Collision-Aware Vision-Language Learning for End-to-End Driving with Multimodal Infraction Datasets | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Dual-Stage LLM Framework for Scenario-Centric Semantic Interpretation in Driving Assistance | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| A Semantic Observer Layer for Autonomous Vehicles: Pre-Deployment Feasibility Study of VLMs for Low-Latency Anomaly Detection | 2026-03 | arXiv | - | 5090 | 0 |
| How Well Do Vision-Language Models Understand Sequential Driving Scenes? A Sensitivity Study (VENUSS) | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | API | 0 |
| BATON: A Multimodal Benchmark for Bidirectional Automation Transition Observation in Naturalistic Driving | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | API | 0 |
| CrashSight: A Phase-Aware, Infrastructure-Centric Video Benchmark for Traffic Crash Scene Understanding and Reasoning | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | 8xA100 | 0 |
| VAGNet: Vision-based Accident Anticipation with Global Features | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | RTX4090 | 0 |
| SignReasoner: Compositional Reasoning for Complex Traffic Sign Understanding via Functional Structure Units | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | 4xH100 | 0 |
| CCTVBench: Contrastive Consistency Traffic VideoQA Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | API | 0 |
| Towards Safe Mobility: A Unified Transportation Foundation Model enabled by Open-Ended Vision-Language Dataset (UniVLT / LTD) | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | 8xH100 | 0 |
| EgoDyn-Bench: Evaluating Ego-Motion Understanding in Vision-Centric Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | API | 0 |
| Zoom In, Reason Out: Efficient Far-field Anomaly Detection in Expressway Surveillance Videos via Focused VLM Reasoning Guided by Bayesian Inference (VIBES) | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | RTX4090 | 0 |
| VLM-VPI: A Vision-Language Reasoning Framework for Improving Automated Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions | 2026-04 | arXiv | - | API | 0 |
| HiDrive: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for High-Level Autonomous Driving | 2026-05 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Bench2Drive-VL: Benchmarks for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Vision-Language Models | 2026-04 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Bridging Structure and Language: Graph-Based Visual Reasoning for Autonomous Road Understanding | 2026-05 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| C-CoT: Counterfactual Chain-of-Thought with Vision-Language Models for Safe Autonomous Driving | 2026-05 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| D2-V2X: Depth-Driven Cooperative V2X Reasoning for Autonomous Driving | 2026-05 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| DRIVESPATIAL: A Benchmark for Spatiotemporal Intelligence in VLMs for Autonomous Driving | 2026-05 | NeurIPS 2026 | Project | - | 0 |
| PEDESTRIANQA: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Pedestrian Intention and Trajectory Prediction | 2026-05 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| ReasonBreak: Probing Vulnerabilities in Reasoning-Enabled Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving | 2026-05 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Two-Pass Zero-Shot Temporal-Spatial Grounding of Rare Traffic Events in Surveillance Video | 2026-05 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving | 2026-05 | arXiv | Project | - | 0 |
| Vision-Language Work Zone Intelligence for Safety-Critical Speed Regulation of Mixed-Autonomy Vehicles in Dynamic Environments | 2026-06 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Multi-Stage VLM Pipeline for Zero-Shot Traffic Accident Understanding | 2026-05 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| DriveJudge: Rethinking Autonomous Driving Evaluation with Vision-Language Models | 2026-06 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| GeoDrive-Bench: Benchmarking Region-Specific Multimodal Reasoning in Autonomous Driving | 2026-06 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Metadata-Aware Multi-Prompt Reasoning for Zero-Shot Accident Understanding | 2026-06 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Robusto-2: Benchmarking Humans & VLMs for Autonomous Driving in Lima & New York City | 2026-06 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| AUTOPILOT VQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Incident-Centric Dashcam Understanding | 2026-07 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| DispatchRAG: Grounding Emergency Dispatch Decisions in Real-World Protocols from Traffic Accident Video | 2026-07 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Reasoning to Regulate: Chain-of-Thought for Traffic Rule Understanding | 2026-07 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| CAViAR: A Causal Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Accident Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios | 2026-08 | arXiv | GitHub | - | 0 |
| Observe Before You Alert: Adaptive Driver Alerting with Vision-Language Models | 2026-09 | arXiv | - | RTX5090 | 0 |
| CrossView: Can Vision-Language Models Reason Across Cameras? | 2026-08 | arXiv | GitHub | API | 0 |
| SIREN-Bench: Behavior-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Emergency-Vehicle Interactions | 2026-08 | arXiv | - | V100S | 0 |