Hossein Hassani
Scholar

Hossein Hassani

Google Scholar ID: DnUb9iUAAAAJ
Assistant Professor | Toronto Metropolitan University |
Deep LearningComputer VisionReinforcement LearningAutonomous Vehicles
Citations & Impact
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Citations
549
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
17
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
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Academic Achievements
  • Developed TinyDrive: a novel Vision-Language Model (VLM) for autonomous vehicles capable of real-time visual question answering.
  • Currently advancing the next generation of TinyDrive to improve efficiency and generalization, and exploring its evolution into a Vision-Language-Action model.
  • Published multiple high-impact papers, including:
  • — “TinyDrive: Multiscale visual question answering with selective token routing for autonomous driving,” arXiv:2505.15564, 2025;
  • — “Attention prioritized experience replay with application to self-driving cars,” IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine (In press);
  • — “Improved exploration-exploitation trade-off through adaptive prioritized experience replay,” Neurocomputing, vol. 614, p. 128836, 2025;
  • — “TS-VLM: Text-guided SoftSort pooling for vision-language models in multi-view driving reasoning,” arXiv:2505.12670, 2025.