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ICRA 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), held June 1–5 at Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria, was under the theme “Robots for All”. It lived up to its reputation as the largest robotics research conference in the world, and the Vienna setting made the experience all the more memorable. The city’s historic charm provided a fitting backdrop for discussions about the cutting edge of technology, with the grand coffee houses and imperial architecture offering a striking contrast to the autonomous systems and AI-driven machines filling the exhibition floors. The program was dense and inspiring — plenary and keynote sessions, contributed paper sessions, workshops, tutorials, forums, and a lively expoRead more

On June 4, 2026, Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada delivered a keynote talk at the 3rd MEIS Workshop on Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Generative-AI Era: Opportunities, Challenges and Futures, held in conjunction with CVPR 2026 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Professor Tsukada was also invited to speak at the first MEIS Workshop, co-located with ECCV 2024 in Milan, Italy, where he presented “Cooperative Autonomous Mobility through Open Standards and Real-World Experiments.” His invitation to the third MEIS Workshop at CVPR 2026 reflects the continued relevance of TLab’s work on V2X communication, cooperative autonomous driving, roadside infrastructure, and real-world experimentation within the MEIS community. Keynote Talk Title: Cooperative Intelligence for Autonomous Driving:Read more

Tsukada Lab’s D3 student Vishal Chauhan attended CHI 2026 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) in Barcelona, Spain, from 13 to 17 April 2026. CHI is one of the most important international conferences in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers, students, and industry members from many countries gathered there to share new ideas and recent research. It was a valuable opportunity for him to learn about new work and meet people from different research communities. At the conference, Vishal presented the paper titled “Don’t Worry, Just Follow Me: Prototyping and In-the-Wild Evaluation of Smart Pole Interaction Unit with Mobility.” This research focuses on how the Smart Pole InteractionRead more

Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada, Assistant Professor Ehsan Javanmardi, and Ph.D. candidate (D3) Huan Meng participated in the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2025), held in Gold Coast, Australia, in November 2025. ITSC is one of the leading international conferences in the intelligent transportation systems field, bringing together researchers from around the world for discussions on the latest research and technological advances. During the conference, Associate Professor Tsukada delivered a keynote talk titled “Adaptive V2X Collaboration for End-to-End Autonomous Driving” at the DriveX Workshop, presenting recent progress in cooperative autonomous driving technologies. Ph.D. candidate Huan Meng also presented his research, “Patch Exploration-Based Route Planning for Autonomous Vehicles,” whichRead 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 whenRead 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

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

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alex ORSHOLITS presented his poster titled “Edge Vision AI Co-Processing for Dynamic Context Awareness in Mixed Reality” at the IEEE VR 2025 conference in Saint-Malo, France. This research demonstrates a scalable approach to improving spatial computing and dynamic environmental awareness in Mixed Reality by leveraging edge-based AI co-processing with low-power hardware accelerator and the Magic Leap 2 headset The presented system simultaneously ran five vision AI models (YOLOv8s, CenterPose, FastDepth, SCRFD, and ArcFace) at 30 frames per second, streaming and displaying detection results on a Magic Leap 2 headset in real-time and with minimal latency. This poster was awarded an Honorable Mention, oneRead more

We are pleased to announce that Yun Li, a second-year doctoral student, and Yuze Jiang, a first-year doctoral student, represented Tsukada Lab at the IEEE ITSC 2024 conference, held in Edmonton, Canada, from September 24 to 27, 2024. The 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2024) serves as the flagship event of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), gathering researchers from around the globe to share advancements in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Yun Li’s Presentation: Yun Li presented a paper titled “Large Language Models for Human-like Autonomous Driving Decision Making: A Survey.” This research emphasizes the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs)Read more

The ITSC2024 workshop, titled “Vision Language Model Based Human-Centered Autonomous Driving”, was organized by Tsukada lab’s Prof. Naren and Prof. Javanmardi, alongside Prof. Alexander Carballo (Gifu University), and Prof. Cristina Johannes (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria). The workshop explored the integration of vision language models (VLMs) into autonomous driving, with a focus on human factors in decision-making, safety, and interaction. The event featured five presentations, each covering unique aspects of human-centered autonomous driving technology. Summary of Presentations: Automated Vehicle Driver Monitoring Dataset from Real-World Scenarios Integrating Naturalistic Insights in Objective Multi-Vehicle Safety Framework Presenter: Enrico Del Re, Research Assistant, Johannes Kepler University Linz Enrico discussed the use of real-world dataRead more

We are excited to share that Vishal Chauhan, a Doctoral student (D1), recently presented his research at the prestigious Auto-UI 2024 conference. The presentation, titled “Transforming Pedestrian and Autonomous Vehicles Interactions in Shared Spaces: A Think-Tank Study on Exploring Human-Centric Designs,” explored innovative solutions for enhancing pedestrian and autonomous vehicle (AV) interactions using Smart Pole Interaction Units (SPIU) and external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs). The study involved 25 participants who brainstormed design solutions to improve the effectiveness, simplicity, visibility, and clarity of pedestrian-AV interactions. Key findings highlighted the preference for real-time interaction through SPIUs over eHMIs on AVs in various scenarios. However, the combined use of both SPIUs and eHMIs proved crucial for building trust in autonomous decision-making.Read more

From August 12 to August 14, 2024, Dr. Alex Orsholits and Tokio Takada, M1, participated in the 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (MetaCom 2024) in Hong Kong. The conference brought together researchers and professionals to share the latest progress in computing, networking, and applications for the Metaverse. It provided a valuable platform for exchanging ideas and exploring future directions in this rapidly evolving field. Dr. Alex Orsholits presented the paper titled PLATONE: An Immersive Geospatial Audio Spatialization Platform, focusing on the integration of spatial audio in urban environments through mixed reality (MR). His research explored the use of city-scale 3D geometry for audio spatializationRead more

We are pleased to report on our participation in the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024), held at Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea, from June 2-5, 2024. This prestigious conference, sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), brought together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from various sectors to discuss the latest advancements in intelligent vehicles and vehicle-infrastructure cooperation. Our laboratory was represented by Prof. Manabu Tsukada and Dr. Tao Ye presented his paper titled “Zero-Knowledge Proof of Distinct Identity: A Standard-Compatible Sybil-Resistant Pseudonym Extension for C-ITS.” The paper addresses the challenge of Sybil attacks in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) by proposing a novel protocolRead more

Associate Prof. Manabu Tsukada recently participated in the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2023) held in Kyoto, Japan from June 26-28, 2023. This conference served as a pivotal platform for discussing the integration of physical and cyber worlds, essential for developing the Metaverse. The conference emphasized the transformative potential of the Metaverse in various sectors, including industry, finance, healthcare, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. It highlighted the challenges and opportunities in areas such as human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, resource demands, reliability, and trustworthiness. Prof. Tsukada presented a paper titled “Semantic Digital Twin for interoperability and comprehensive management of data assets.” The paperRead more

June 2024, Pengfei Lin, a D3 student from our laboratory, had the opportunity to present his research at the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2023), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The conference, renowned for gathering experts from academia, industry, and government agencies, focuses on the latest advancements in Intelligent Vehicles and Infrastructure, providing a significant platform for sharing new ideas and technological breakthroughs. Pengfei presented his paper titled “Time-to-Collision-Aware Lane-Change Strategy Based on Potential Field and Cubic Polynomial for Autonomous Vehicles.” His research, aiming to enhance the safety of autonomous vehicle lane-changing maneuvers, has shown promising results, reducing the length and curvature of lane change trajectories significantly, ensuring smootherRead more