Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVnet)

Schedule

Monday, 6th January 2025
Venue: Esquire Hall (Basement)
Time	Title	Speaker/Authors
9:30 – 10:00	Welcome by Workshop Chairs
10:00 – 11:00	Keynote-1: ITS for Traffic Safety in India	Prof. Vijay Gopal Kovvali, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru
11:00 – 11:30	Tea break
11:30 – 11:50	Learning-Based Sensing Mode Selection for ISAC in Intelligent Transportation Systems	Roshan S Sam, Abhinaba Dey, Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions)
11:50 – 12:10	Automated Detection of Roadway and Traffic Control Conditions Using On-Board Image Processing	Ashmitha Jaysi Sivakumar, L Pragati, Sambhavi Roy, Lelitha Vanajakshi (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras)
12:10 – 12:30	Research Talk: Traffic Intelligence using Computer Vision	Parikshit Singh Rathore, IISc
12:30 – 12:50	Research Talk: Vehicle Re-identification using Computer Vision	Rishab Rajesh Sharma, IISc
13:00-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00	Keynote-2: Local Traffic State Estimation Methods for Variable Levels of Ego Vehicle Surrounding Awareness	Prof. Bhargava Rama Chilukuri, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
15:00 – 15:20	Leveraging Edge-cloud for Compute Efficient and Safer Autonomous Navigation	Prashanth Sri Putcha, Hrushikesh S, Amrit Kumar, Yuvraj Makken, Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad)
15:20 – 15:40	Software Defined Vehicles-The Future of Automobile Industry	SaiLakshmi Madhuri Tanuku, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)
15:40 – 16:10	Invited Talk: Accelerating Mobility Innovation with Generative AI	Invited Talk: Dr. Caleb Ronald Munigety, Head, Mobility Think-tank, Bosch, India
16:10 – 16:20	Tea Break
16:20 – 17:00	Invited Talk: Cyber security in automotive domain	Mr. Tallapalli Ravi kiran, Principal Product Manager, Tata Elxsi / Pruthvish Rajput, IISc
17:00 – 17:30	Talk: Assessing the feasibility of integrated autonomous last-mile delivery	Dr. Lokesh Kalahasthi, IIT Tirupati
17:30 – 18:00	Closing Remarks

Call for Papers

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Accepted Papers

Learning-Based Sensing Mode Selection for ISAC in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Roshan S Sam (Lekha Wireless Solutions), Abhinaba Dey (Lekha Wireless Solutions), Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions)
Automated Detection of Roadway and Traffic Control Conditions Using On-Board Image Processing
Ashmitha Jaysi Sivakumar (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras), L Pragati (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras), Sambhavi Roy (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras), Lelitha Vanajakshi (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras)
Leveraging Edge-cloud for Compute Efficient and Safer Autonomous Navigation
Prashanth Sri Putcha (IIT Hyderabad), Hrushikesh S (IIT Hyderabad), Amrit Kumar (IIT Hyderabad), Yuvraj Makken (IIT Hyderabad), Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad)
Software Defined Vehicles-The Future of Automobile Industry
SaiLakshmi Madhuri Tanuku (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Dr.J Bala Vishnu (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Due: ~~27th October 2024 (AoE)~~ ~~10th November 2024 (AoE)~~ 18th November 2024 (AoE) (EXTENDED and FIRM)
Notification of Acceptance: 3rd December 2024
Camera-ready Submission: 10th December 2024
Workshop Date: 6th January 2025

Workshop Overview

The 10th workshop on Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVNets) will be held in conjunction with COMSNETS 2025, highlighting the significance of Intelligent Transportation Systems - an amalgamation of cutting-edge technologies and communication used in traffic control and management systems to improve the sustainability, effectiveness, and safety of vehicular networks. This special workshop in COMSNETS 2025 aims to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners from various disciplines to share their experiences on interdisciplinary approaches to solving transportation problems. The workshop invites original papers that make contributions to the sensing, modeling, control, learning, and analysis in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Communications for CAVs
- Connected and Autonomous vehicles (CAVs) - service design, management, and control
- Vehicle to everything (V3X) and Cellular V2X (C-V2X) Communications
- Efficient Over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Vehicular network communications (5G, 6G, etc.)
- Networked land/aerial vehicular systems
- Integration of infrastructure and intelligent vehicles
- Eco-driving and energy-efficient vehicles
- Battery management systems and state-of-the-charge (SoC) estimation
Vehicle Automation, Control, Testing and Validation
- Automated driving systems (ADS)
- Vehicle control and motion planning
- End to End Autonomous Driving
- Automated vehicles
- AI/ML for vehicle automation and Control
- Simulation and real-world testing methodologies
- Verification and Validation techniques
Sensing, Computing, Perception, and Localization
- Sensor signal processing - multimodel data fusion, processing, etc.
- Advanced sensing systems for CAVs
- Automotive cyber-physical systems
- Object event detection and response (OEDR)
- Distributed/edge computing on CAVs
- Integration of high-definition map and onboard sensors
- SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping)
- ML/DL for Perception and Localization
Safety, Security, and Privacy in CAVs
- Vehicular active and passive safety
- Collision Avoidance Systems for Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), Non-motorized Traffic (NMT) and Animals
- Functional safety in intelligent vehicles
- Advanced driving assistance systems - safety and reliability
- Cybersecurity for CAVs - intrusion detection and prevention (IDS)
- Secure Over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Data protection and security (encryption/firewalls/authentication, etc.) for CAVs
- AI/ML applications for vehicle safety, security, and privacy
Human Interaction, Factors and Other Issues in CAVs
- Human factors and human-machine interfaces (e.g., Infotainment systems) in CAVs
- Teleoperation of intelligent vehicles
- Social Cognitive autonomous driving
- Public policy, regulator, and societal issues in CAVs
Emerging Technologies and New Trends in CAVs
- Emerging mobility systems: E-Mobility, air mobility, shared mobility, autonomous mobility, etc.
- Software-defined vehicles, cooperative vehicles
- Applications of Quantum computing, blockchain to CAVs
- Future mobility

Submission Guidelines

The ADVnet Workshop invites submission of original work not previously published, or under review at another conference or journal.
Submissions (including title, author list, abstract, all figures, tables, references and appendix) should not exceed 6 pages in length.
Reviews will be double-blind: authors name and affiliation should not be included in the submission.
Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website, and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed.
Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website; and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website; page limit is 6 pages for technical content and references, and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. We will follow a double-blind review policy.
All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the ADVnet Workshop submission site on HotCRP.
All workshop papers will appear in conference proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Papers can be submitted through HotCRP : https://comsnets25advnet.hotcrp.com/

For any queries please contact us at ADVNet Chairs:comsnets.advnet@gmail.com comsnets.workshop@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers

Bhargava Rama Chilukuri

IIT Madras, India

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Dr. Bhargava R. Chilukuri is an Associate Professor at IIT Madras. He earned his B.Tech. (Hons) from the IIT Kharagpur, M.S. from the University of Utah, and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before his Ph.D., Dr. Bhargava worked for several years as a traffic engineer in the industry in the USA and obtained his Professional Engineer license. He joined IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering in December 2016. His areas of interest include traffic flow theory and modeling, and traffic control of highways and arterials, and networks.

Vijay Gopal Kovvali

IISc Bengaluru, India

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Dr. Vijay Kovvali is a Research Professor at the Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and brings over 24 years of experience in transportation engineering, focusing on intelligent transportation systems (ITS), traffic engineering, road safety, and public transport systems. Prior to joining IISc, he served as a Professor of Practice at IIT Delhi and held leadership roles in the industry, contributing to diverse projects in smart cities, traffic modeling, multimodal integration, and data analytics. He is actively engaged in research projects leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance mobility solutions.

Program Committee

Amit Agarwal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Richa Ahuja, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Bhavathrathan B, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Sharmila Babu, IIT Guwahati
Anilkumar Bachu, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Kinjal Bhattacharyya, Post-Doctoral Researcher
Laxman Bisht, Post-Doctoral Fellow at TU DELFT
Sabyasachi Biswas, Assistant Professor
Pranamesh Chakraborty, IIT Kanpur
Bhargava Chilukuri, IIT Madras
Pushpa Choudhary, IIT Roorke
Debasis Das, IIT Jodhpur
Sanhita Das, IIT Roorke
Partha Dey, IIT Bhubaneswar
Indrajit Ghosh, IIT Roorke
Jyoti Grover, MNIT Jaipur
Ankit Kathuria, IIT Jammu
Maryam Kaveshgar, Ahmedabad University
Malyala Pavana Ravi Sai Kiran, IIT Jodhpur
Manoj M, IIT Delhi
Rahul M, IIT Ropar
Prasant Misra, TCS Research
Ranju Mohan, IIT Jodhpur
Smruti Mohapatra, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
Satyajit Mondal, NIT Patna
Abhisek Mudgal, IIT Bhubaneswar
Caleb Ronald Munigety, Bosch India Ltd.
Subrata Nandi, NIT Durgapur
Nishant Mukund Pawar, National Institute of Technology Calicut
Agnivesh P, Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University
Vishwajeet Pattanaik, IISc Bangalore
Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay
Tarun Rambha, IISc Bangalore
Marisamynathan S, NIT Trichy
Sujoy Saha, NIT Durgapur
RaviKiran Sarvadevabhatla, IIIT Hyderabad
Anshuman Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University
Gajanand Sharma, Assistant Professor
Anbumani Subramanian, INAI / IIIT Hyderabad
Nagendra Velaga, IIT Bombay
Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Hrishikesh Venkataraman, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Sricity