Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Intelligent Vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistant Systems for Unstructured Environments

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Research interest in intelligent vehicles and intelligent transportation systems has seen a significant rise globally in the near past in both academia and industry. Various solutions to Intelligent Vehicles (IV) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) problems have been suggested and deployed in real world scenarios. These solutions are for well-structured environments that include roads with well-defined lane and road surface markings, traffic signs and lights, and well-followed traffic rules. However, these solutions may face challenges in unstructured and chaotic driving environments present in developing nations such as India. In unstructured and chaotic driving environments, the road and traffic conditions, presence of large number of non-standard vehicles such as auto-rickshaws and cycle-rickshaws, the presence of a large number of pedestrians on the road due to absence of sidewalks, etc., render the currently available IV and ITS solutions insufficient. In this scenario, the pedestrians and cyclists are highly vulnerable. Moreover, the conditions of road and road markings, large number of vehicles, various types of vehicles and environmental conditions make it difficult to seamlessly adapt existing Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles in unstructured environments. These challenges also affect the drivers and their behavior and therefore, driver monitoring in these scenarios also pose novel research problems. Moreover, in such unstructured environments, traffic is generally very high and chaotic, requiring intelligent traffic management. Inteligent Transportation also involves optimal scheduling, routing and traffic management across various modes such as Road, Railways, Air, and Sea. These form complex networks and require highly complex computational algorithms dealing with real-time data to ensure highly accurate and time bound performance. It is the time to address these challenges to bring safety and autonomy in vehicles, transport and traffic infrastructure, in complex, unstructured environments. Further extension of this research area can also lead to advancement in assistive mobility solutions that are either not currently available or not adaptable to overcome the challenges present in the unstructured environment. The aim of the workshop is to engage with the research community to explore and find novel solutions or adapt existing solutions to the problems in the areas of Intelligent Transportation systems, Intelligent vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in chaotic and unstructured environments. The workshop will also be a platform to share with the research community the ongoing research efforts in these areas. Moreover, the workshop will also be a good platform to discuss approaches to gather and share large amounts of annotated, real, high quality data of the varied unstructured environments.

Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Intelligent Vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in Unstructured Environments
6th Nov 2020 - 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m Las Vegas time
Time (Las Vegas)
7:00 a.m. -Introduction to the Workshop - Workshop Organisers
7:15 a.m. - Invited Talk - 1 by Prof. Miguel A. Sotelo, General Manager (CEO), University of Alcalá, Spain
7:50 a.m. - Invited Talk - 2 by Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India
8:25 a.m. - Invited Talk - 3 by Prof. M. Balakarishnan, Professor, CSE, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
9:00 a.m. - Invited Talk - 4, by Mr. Anoop G. Prabhu, CEO, Co-Founder and C.T.O at Vehant Technologies, India
9:35 a.m. - Keynote Address - Prof. Mohan Trivedi, Distinguished Professor, ECE, Univ California, San Diego, USA
10:10 a.m. - Paper - 1
10:30 a.m. - Paper - 2
10:50 a.m. - Concluding Session - Workshop Organisers