Members of the Tsukada Laboratory recently participated in the 36th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2025), held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from June 22nd to 25th, 2025. This prestigious conference brought together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of intelligent vehicles. Representing our laboratory were Professor Tsukada, Professor Javanmardi, and Ph.D. students Yun Li and Yuze Jiang. It was also a pleasure to reconnect with Mikel García, a former visiting Ph.D. student, at the event. Our team made significant contributions to the symposium through two paper presentations and two keynote talks. Ph.D. student Yun Li presented “PrefDrive: Enhancing Autonomous Driving through Preference-Guided Large Language Models,” a novel framework that uses largeRead more

From November 11–14, 2025, the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2025) was held in Montreal, Canada. Vishal Chauhan (D3) and Yu Asabe (D1) from our laboratory, and Anubhav (D3) from the Department of Mathematical Informatics attended the conference. Researchers from many countries presented work on virtual reality, interaction techniques, and simulation platforms, and there were active discussions in both oral and poster sessions. Our team presented the full paper **“A Silent Negotiator? Cross-cultural VR Evaluation of Smart Pole Interaction Units in Dynamic Shared Spaces.”** The study introduces the Smart Pole Interaction Unit (SPIU), an infrastructure-based interface that shows clear “STOP/GO” signals to help pedestrians decide when to crossRead more

Members of the Tsukada Laboratory attended the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025, held in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, from October 19th to 23rd, 2025. ICCV is one of the leading international conferences in the field of computer vision and brings together researchers from around the world. Ph.D. student Hao Si presented a poster titled “You Share Beliefs, I Adapt: Progressive Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception.” The study examines the challenge of heterogeneity in collaborative perception for autonomous driving and proposes an approach that enables a vehicle model to adapt its parameters during inference without prior joint training. Project Researcher Yue Yin attended several workshops related to visual localization, including Multi-Modal Localization andRead more

On October 17, 2025, Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada delivered a presentation titled “6G-Path to Cooperative End-to-End Autonomous Driving” at The 2nd Symposium on 6G Communications (S6GC), held as part of the International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC2025) in Jeju Island, Korea. The symposium, themed “Shaping the Future of 6G: Innovation, Intelligence, and Sustainability,” served as a platform for discussing 6G technology innovation, intelligence, and sustainability. Alongside Professor Tsukada, the symposium featured distinguished speakers including Dr. Luís Cordeiro from OneSource (Technical Coordinator of the EU 6G-PATH project), Professor Jing Li from the University of Bradford, Associate Professor Jorge Bernal Bernabe from the University of Murcia, and Professor Tarik Taleb from RuhrRead more

From August 27–29, 2025, Dr. Naren Bao, Shangkai Zhang (D3), and Dr. Alex Orsholits participated in the 3rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (MetaCom 2025), held at Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Dr. Bao presented “4D Path Planning via Spatiotemporal Voxels in Urban Airspaces.” The work introduces a 4D (space-time) voxel representation aligned with Spatial ID to model dynamic urban airspaces for UAV routing. By combining offline pretraining and online fine-tuning in a reinforcement-learning pipeline, the method plans safe, efficient flight paths amid static structures and dynamic obstacles using PLATEAU city models. Reported results show gains in safety (greater obstacle clearance) and efficiency (shorter,Read more