Since the inception of the first Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems in Nagoya 2003, progress based on data analytics have completely changed the technologies of Human-Vehicle systems. At that time in 2003, the ability to achieve recognition of distant speech voice commands, deep learning for object detection, as well as fully autonomous driving had not been regarded as an industrial reality for almost 10 years later. Now, with rapid advancements by diverse researchers worldwide, these domains have working realizations, and so the next main challenge is the integration of them towards more human friendly and society friendly automated systems. In this next workshop to take place in Nagoya in 2018, we will re-focus on the technologies of data analytics in speech/audio, computer vision and intelligent vehicle advancements under the perspectives of human harmonizing systems. The workshop organization will include inviting three distinctive keynote speakers from speech, vision and vehicle areas. We also invite stakeholders from industry, government for an open discussion/engaging panel discussion with researchers on the future deployment of autonomous and intelligent systems. As in previous workshops, extended articles in the selected presentations will be included in the next volume of the De Gruyter Book series "DSP, human-to-vehicle interfaces, driver behavior, and safety." The Organizing Committee looks forward to seeing you in Nagoya, and contributing your thoughts and expertise as signal processing research advances for next generation vehicle/driver systems.


1. Scopes of the workshop
The scopes of the workshop include but not limited to the signal processing related to the following topics; Human-Machine Interactions (Speech understanding, synthesis, virtual reality, gesture, dialogues, multimodality, etc.) Computer Visions (Image recognition, tracking, segmentation, depth map, visual slam, etc.), Intelligent Vehicle (Driver behavior, path planning, sensor fusion, point cloud, dynamic map, etc.).


2. Workshop program (tentative)
- Day 1, October 7 (15:00-19:00): Opening, Keynote and Reception
- Day 2, October 8 (9:00-20:00): Presentations/Posters and Dinner
- Day 3, October 9 (9:00-15:00): Presentations, Keynote, Panel and Closing
- Special event (tentative): Autoware tutorial (https://www.autoware.ai/)


3. Important dates
- Abstract/Intent of participation received by April 30
- Manuscript received by May 31
- Notification of the acceptance will be sent by July 31
- Workshop: Oct 7-9


4. Publications
Papers and presentations can be downloaded as a zip pdf file through the conference site. Extended versions of selected 20 presentations will be included in the 3rd volume of the De Gruyter book, Vehicle Systems and Driver Modelling.

5. Conference organizing committee
General chairs:
Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya U), Huseyin Abut (San Diego State U), John Hansen (UT at Dallas), Gerhard Schmidt (U of Kiel)
Conference chairs:
Norihide Kitaoka (Tokushima U), Takatsugu Hirayama (Nagoya U), Hirofumi Aoki (Nagoya U)
Program chairs:
Tomoki Toda (Nagoya U, Speech), Daisuke Deguchi (Nagoya U, Computer Vision), Chunzhao Guo (Toyota CRDL, Vehicle)
Local secretaries:
Chiyomi Miyajima (Nagoya U), Chika Ando (Nagoya U)


6. Conference sponsor/co-sponsors
Nagoya University, JST (COI/OPERA/MIRAI), IEEE ITS Society Nagoya/Tokyo chapters, IEEE SP Society Tokyo JC


7. Contact
secretary@g.sp.m.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp