Currently, cars exhibit an increasing range of autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities. Taking advantage of on-board sensors intelligent vehicles are able to support drivers on tasks ranging from specific maneuvers such as parking to fully autonomous driving. Successful systems should enable seamless interaction between the car and its driver both ensuring that the car behavior is consistent with the driver’s intent while at the same time efficiently provide the driver information about the car and its environment.

Different approaches to achieve these goals are currently in development. They are intended to identify the driver’s state and intent from physiological and behavioral signals. These include the use of technologies such as computer vision, eye-tracking, and brain-machine interfaces to detect drowsiness, workload and lack of attention, or to predict upcoming behavior such as emergency braking and lane turning.

The 2015 IEEE SMC special session is aimed at providing a fruitful space to present and discuss state of the art research of these issues. In particular addressing the challenges of this particular application. Contributions will be presented as part of the BMI workshop at the SMC conference and papers will be published in the proceedings and accessible via IEEExplore. We welcome your contributions to this special session. Your support will make the 2015 IEEE SMC a wonderful occasion and a successful conference

Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted through the SMC submission system. Please pay attention to clearly indicate which session your paper is intended for. Papers submitted to a Special Session should NOT be submitted in duplication to any other regular or special session. We would appreciate if you contact the organizers for arrangement of submission in the first instance and ease organisational issues.

All submitted papers will undergo the same review process (three completed reviews per paper). The technical reviewers will be members of the SMC Program Committee and qualified peer-reviewers to be nominated by the organisers. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the SMC 2015 conference and indexed in IEEExplore.

Organizers
Ricardo Chavarriaga, EPFL, Switzerland (ricardo.chavarriaga at epfl.ch)
Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University (swlee at image.korea.ac.kr)