MetroCAD 2021 (The Fourth International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving)

Thursday, April 29
8:50-9:00	Welcome Remarks
9:00-10:00	Keynote I: Clearing the validation hurdle for CAV’s Session Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University) Speaker: Reuben Sarkar (President & CEO, American Center for Mobility)
10:00-11:00	Keynote II: New Form of AD Vehicle to Transform Mobility Landscape Session Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University) Speaker: Tony Han (Founder & CEO, WeRide)
11:00-12:30	Session I: Autonomous Driving Technologies Session Chair: Song Fu (University of North Texas) 11:00–11:30 1. Early Detection of Occluded or Hidden Pedestrian by Using Mobile Base Station Ricky Hou (BNU-HKBU United International College) 11:30–12:00 2. FPGA-Based Candidate Scoring Acceleration towards LiDAR Mapping Joshua J Frank (Clarkson University); Zhiliu Yang (Clarkson University); Chen Liu (Clarkson University) 12:00–12:30 3. A Survey on Simulators for Testing Self-Driving Cars Prabhjot Kaur (Wayne State University); Samira Taghavi (Wayne State University); Zhaofeng Tian (Wayne State University); Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
13:00-14:30	Session II: Cooperative Autonomous Driving Systems Session Chair: Zheng Dong (Wayne State University) 13:00–13:30 1. OASD: An Open Approach to Self-Driving Vehicle Sudip Dhakal (University of North Texas); Deyuan Qu (University of North Texas); Dominic Carrillo (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas); Song Fu (University of North Texas) 13:30–14:00 2. Vehicular Edge Computing for Multi-Vehicle Perception Sihai Tang (University of North Texas); Zhaochen Gu (University of North TExas); Song Fu (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas) 14:00–14:30 3. SafeOverPass: An Edge-Based Low-Clearance Overpass Warning System Raef Abdallah (Wayne State University); Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
14:30-15:30	Panel : Autonomous Driving： Where are we today? Moderator: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University) Panelists: Tom Tasky (Director, Intelligent Mobility FEV North America, Inc.), Walter Sullivan (CTO, Designated Driver), Zehua Huang (SVP of Engineering at TuSimple), Christian John (President at Tier IV North America Inc.)
15:30-17:00	Session III: Security Session Chair: Yunsheng Wang (Kettering University) 15:30–16:00 1. An Experimental Study of Denial of Service Attack Against Platoon of Smart Vehicles Shahida Malik (University of Toledo, OH.); Praveen Bandi (University of Toledo); Weiqing Sun (University of Toledo) 16:00–16:30 2. Physical Invariant Based Attack Detection for Autonomous Vehicles: Survey, Vision, and Challenges Francis Akowuah (Syracuse University); Fanxin Kong (Syracuse University) 16:30–17:00 3. PlateGuard: License Plate Privacy Protection for Internet of Vehicles Michael T Nutt (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas); Song Fu (University of North Texas)

8:50-9:00

Welcome Remarks

9:00-10:00

Keynote I: Clearing the validation hurdle for CAV’s
Session Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
Speaker: Reuben Sarkar
(President & CEO, American Center for Mobility)

10:00-11:00

Keynote II: New Form of AD Vehicle to Transform Mobility Landscape
Session Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
Speaker: Tony Han
(Founder & CEO, WeRide)

11:00-12:30

Session I: Autonomous Driving Technologies
Session Chair: Song Fu (University of North Texas)

11:00–11:30
1. Early Detection of Occluded or Hidden Pedestrian by Using Mobile Base Station
Ricky Hou (BNU-HKBU United International College)

11:30–12:00
2. FPGA-Based Candidate Scoring Acceleration towards LiDAR Mapping
Joshua J Frank (Clarkson University); Zhiliu Yang (Clarkson University); Chen Liu (Clarkson University)

12:00–12:30
3. A Survey on Simulators for Testing Self-Driving Cars
Prabhjot Kaur (Wayne State University); Samira Taghavi (Wayne State University); Zhaofeng Tian (Wayne State University); Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

13:00-14:30

Session II: Cooperative Autonomous Driving Systems
Session Chair: Zheng Dong (Wayne State University)

13:00–13:30
1. OASD: An Open Approach to Self-Driving Vehicle
Sudip Dhakal (University of North Texas); Deyuan Qu (University of North Texas); Dominic Carrillo (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas); Song Fu (University of North Texas)

13:30–14:00
2. Vehicular Edge Computing for Multi-Vehicle Perception
Sihai Tang (University of North Texas); Zhaochen Gu (University of North TExas); Song Fu (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas)

14:00–14:30
3. SafeOverPass: An Edge-Based Low-Clearance Overpass Warning System
Raef Abdallah (Wayne State University); Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

14:30-15:30

Panel : Autonomous Driving： Where are we today?
Moderator: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
Panelists:
Tom Tasky (Director, Intelligent Mobility FEV North America, Inc.),
Walter Sullivan (CTO, Designated Driver),
Zehua Huang (SVP of Engineering at TuSimple),
Christian John (President at Tier IV North America Inc.)

15:30-17:00

Session III: Security
Session Chair: Yunsheng Wang (Kettering University)

15:30–16:00
1. An Experimental Study of Denial of Service Attack Against Platoon of Smart Vehicles
Shahida Malik (University of Toledo, OH.); Praveen Bandi (University of Toledo); Weiqing Sun (University of Toledo)

16:00–16:30
2. Physical Invariant Based Attack Detection for Autonomous Vehicles: Survey, Vision, and Challenges
Francis Akowuah (Syracuse University); Fanxin Kong (Syracuse University)

16:30–17:00
3. PlateGuard: License Plate Privacy Protection for Internet of Vehicles
Michael T Nutt (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas); Song Fu (University of North Texas)

Program