IPerSense at IEEE ITSC 2026

Status

2026-04-20 — Workshop accepted

We are happy to announce that the IPerSense workshop proposal for IEEE ITSC 2026 has been accepted. This page will be updated as the organizer team finalizes speakers, program, and participation details.

Overview

Abstract

The iteration of IPerSense focuses on infrastructure-based perception systems for connected and automated mobility.

Future automated and connected vehicles increasingly rely on infrastructure-based perception to overcome line-of-sight limitations of onboard sensors, enhance redundancy in distributed sensor networks, and enable reliable, uncertainty-aware state estimation at safety-critical locations. By offloading part of the perception task to the infrastructure, road operators can detect occluded road users, support cooperative maneuvers, and provide trusted situational awareness to vehicles and traffic management centers.

Infrastructure-based perception systems use roadside units equipped with cameras, lidar, radar, and in-road load-sensing technologies. In-road sensors capture tire contact patches and dynamic wheel loads within the pavement, complementing overhead bounding-box sensing with axle configurations and traffic-induced forces. These measurements support safety applications and the development of digital twins of road infrastructure.

Validation of these systems spans three levels: simulation, small-scale experimentation, and full-scale deployment. Simulation enables rapid prototyping, while small-scale testbeds provide an intermediate step between virtual studies and costly field trials.

Detailed information about the organizer team for this workshop instance is listed on The Organizers.

Topics of interest

The workshop focuses on the following themes:

  • Infrastructure-based perception for automated and connected vehicles

  • Roadside sensing with cameras, lidar, radar, and related sensor suites

  • In-road load-sensing technologies and traffic-induced force measurements

  • Redundancy, uncertainty-aware state estimation, and safety-critical operation

  • Cooperative support for occluded road users and connected maneuvers

  • Digital twins of road infrastructure and validation workflows

  • Simulation, small-scale experimentation, and full-scale deployment

Speakers

Speaker information will be announced soon.

Below you will find a list of approved speakers from our collaborator network. The final speaker list for this edition will be updated once the program is finalized.

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Ehsan Hashemi

University of Alberta, Canada

Smart Infrastructure with Multimodal Perception for Safe Mobility in Adverse Weather: A Field Deployment in Canada

Simon Schäfer

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Filling the Gap: From Sim to Small to Full Scale Testing for Roadside Sensing Systems

Archak Mittal

IIT Bombay, India

Design and Implementation of Roadside Sensing Systems in a Small-Scale Testbed for Cooperative V2X Evaluation

Walter Zimmer

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Roadside Infrastructure Intelligence: Generating Live Digital Traffic Twins to Support Autonomous Driving

Robert Gee

AUMOVIO, USA

Deployment Timing vs. Methodology: What you don’t know can hurt you

Markus Geisler

CARISSMA at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany

Infrastructure-Based Perception Systems for Safety Applications in Urban Traffic

Kuo-Yi Chao

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Smart Infrastructure for Source-Agnostic Cooperative Perception

Novel Certag

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

ADAS Reliability and Road Condition Estimation Using Vehicle-Mounted Sensors

Program (tentative)

The detailed program will be added once the final agenda is available.

Time

Event Type

Remarks

8:30 am - 8:40 am

Arrival and Registration

10 min registration and welcome

8:40 am - 8:45 am

Opening Remarks by organizers

5 min introduction

8:45 am - 9:05 am

Presenter I - Title I

15 min talk + 5 min Q/A

9:05 am - 9:25 am

Presenter II - Title II

15 min talk + 5 min Q/A

9:25 am - 9:45 am

Presenter III - Title III

15 min talk + 5 min Q/A

9:45 am - 10:05 am

Presenter IV - Title IV

15 min talk + 5 min Q/A

10:05 am - 10:45 am

All Speakers - Panel Discussion

40 min moderated by organizers

10:45 am - 11:00 am

Conclusion and Closing Remarks by organizers

15 min farewell

Attendance and registration

This workshop is held at IEEE ITSC 2026. Participation requires registration for IEEE ITSC 2026 at least for the workshop day and is included in a full conference registration.

See the official conference website for registration, venue, and local information: IEEE ITSC 2026.