Interpretable Modeling of Driver Attention Shifts with a Vision--Language Model 文章

ArXiv CS.CV2026-06-02NEWSen作者: Kaiser Hamid, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Peihang Li, Nade Liang

摘要

arXiv:2508.05852v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Driver gaze is commonly modeled as a spatial heatmap, but heatmaps alone are difficult for humans to interpret because they do not explain which road object or region is being monitored or why an attention shift may matter. This study examines whether minimal human-grounded supervision can steer a vision--language model toward interpretable descriptions of driver attention shifts. Using selected high-change gaze moments from the Berkeley DeepDrive-Attention dataset, we compare zero-shot, one-shot, and LoRA fine-tuned VLM conditions against human-refined reference descriptions and expert ratings. Results show that fine-tuning with 80 expert-refined attention examples improves ROUGE-L, METEOR, Entity Alignment F1, and Human Alignment Score relative to unsteered VLM outputs.