2023/05/12 by Azadeh Dinparastdjadid, Dinparastdjadid, Azadeh, Isaac Supeene +3 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Neuroscience · #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2305.07733
openalex publication_date 2023/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The quantitative measurement of how and when we experience surprise has mostly remained limited to laboratory studies, and its extension to naturalistic settings has been challenging. Here we demonstrate, for the first time, how computational models of surprise rooted in cognitive science and neuroscience combined with state-of-the-art machine learned generative models can be used to detect surprising human behavior in complex, dynamic environments like road traffic. In traffic safety, such models can support the identification of traffic conflicts, modeling of road user response time, and driving behavior evaluation for both human and autonomous drivers. We also present novel approaches to quantify surprise and use naturalistic driving scenarios to demonstrate a number of advantages over existing surprise measures from the literature. Modeling surprising behavior using learned generative models is a novel concept that can be generalized beyond traffic safety to any dynamic real-world environment.