UPDATE:OVERVIEW

4th BIENNIAL WORKSHOP ON DSP FOR IN-VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND SAFETY

OVERVIEW
WELCOME to 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP (Digital Signal Processing) for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety, held in Dallas, TX, USA at the University of Texas at Dallas. The workshop series presents a unique opportunity for researchers working on different branches of in-vehicle signal processing to exchange and discuss cutting edge results. It also forms a communication platform between researchers, automotive manufacturers, government foundations and legislators for road safety on future in-vehicle technologies. The workshop will feature world-class experts on road safety, in-vehicle technologies and demos of state-of-art systems. This workshop follows a series of workshops previously organized first in 2003 (Nagoya, Japan), 2005 (Sesimbra, Portugal), and 2007 (Istanbul, Turkey).

This year the workshop will be more extensive in participation from different realms such as: signal processing, control engineering, audio-video processing, human factors and transportation engineering. This meeting is intended to open doors for fruitful discussion and information exchange in an exciting interdisciplinary area. The main focus areas are listed as follows:

• DSP technologies in adaptive automobiles
• Driver status monitoring and distraction/stress detection
• In-Vehicle dialogue systems and human machine interfaces
• Challenges in video and audio processing for in-vehicle products
• Multi-sensor fusion for driver ID and robust driver monitoring
• Vehicle to Vehicle, Vehicle to Infrastructure wireless technologies
• Human factors and cognitive science in enhancing safety
• Transportation engineering venues


We warmly welcome you to the workshop and thank you for your participation here in Dallas.

John H.L. Hansen and Pinar Boyraz

June 2009