7th Autoware Workshop at IEEE IV 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025, 8:30 ~ 17:00 (GMT+2)

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: March 30, 2025
• Camera Ready: April 25, 2024
• Workshop: June 22, 2025

Contact Info

• Secretariat: iv2025@autoware.org
• Website address: https://autoware.org/iv2025

Introduction

Autoware is the world’s first open-source self-driving software based on ROS (Robot Operating System) middleware, featuring all the capabilities required for fully autonomous driving. The Autoware Foundation (AWF) comprises over 70 members from academia, industry, and government, collaboratively advancing the software and hardware ecosystem for autonomous driving.

This workshop aims to: 

1. Explore state-of-the-art self-driving technologies, including sensors, map-less navigation, connected vehicles, end-to-end autonomous driving, and semantic traffic-scene understanding, with potential integration into Autoware. 
2. Investigate navigation strategies for autonomous racing vehicles and their adaptation for urban driving. 
3. Examine applications of cooperative-competitive multi-agent systems in autonomous driving. 
4. Address open challenges, such as adverse weather conditions, and evaluate existing solutions.

This workshop aims to engage participants from the IEEE ITS Society and Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), further expanding the Autoware community. It offers value to both newcomers and seasoned professionals. Newcomers will gain foundational knowledge about Autoware, its capabilities, and real-world applications, enabling them to advance their research or develop self-driving solutions. Experienced professionals will gain insights into the latest advancements and find opportunities to contribute their expertise to a vibrant, open-source community dedicated to advancing autonomous driving technology for all.

Recent developments within the community have elevated Autoware’s role in the research domain. It has been actively used for self-driving vehicle racing, pushing the boundaries of performance and technology. Additionally, the Autoware Centers of Excellence (CoE)—a global network of over 40 universities—actively leverages and develops Autoware for academic purposes, involving students and researchers in its evolution.

Now in its 7th edition at IV, this workshop has been uniquely co-hosted with the symposium since its inception, providing comprehensive coverage of open-source autonomous driving software and hardware. Managed by the Autoware CoE, the workshop has grown consistently, achieving a record 12 paper submissions at IV2024.

Topics/Keywords: 

The areas of interest of this Autoware workshop include – but are not limited to – the following: 

• Open source robotics, ROS and Autoware related projects
• Self-driving racing and self-driving in unstructured environments and adverse weather conditions
• New robotic platforms and sensors for robots and self-driving vehicles
• New algorithms for autonomous driving implemented in Autoware
• Applications of visual language models and semantic scene understanding for vehicles
• Simulation, open-source simulation tools
• Localization and Mapping: LiDAR-based, camera based, others
• Map-less navigation and end-to-end planning
• Tools and formats to support operational design domains (ODDs) for Autoware
• Software defined vehicles (SDV) and hardware support and drivers, including sensors and ECUs, for Autoware
• Case studies and field operational test from real-world applications using Autoware
• Real-world self-driving deployments using state-of-the-art systems and Autoware
• Connected vehicles and open hardware vehicle platforms
• Safety and validation in self-driving software
• Trustworthy AI in applications for self-driving
• Applications of Autoware in robotics and self-driving vehicles education
• Applications of Autoware for delivery, logistics, transportation, indoor/outdoor robotics

Call for Papers and Presentations

We encourage students, researchers and the community in general to submit their papers and contribute with the 7th Autoware Workshop at IV2025. The workshop will also feature prominent speakers and contributions from the growing open-source autonomous driving. Workshop participants from diverse backgrounds will find an engaging environment to discuss practical aspects of self-driving using Autoware as a framework, along with related state-of-the-art methods.

The number of high quality contributed papers to the Autoware workshop has been increasing. Self-driving racing teams which participated at the recent Japan Society of Automotive Engineers (JSAE) “AI Challenge” as well as F1TENTH racing activities at ICRA2024 (Yokohama), IV2024 (Jeju Island), IROS2024 (Abu Dhabi) and ICCAS2024 (Jeju Island) are invited to contribute several papers.

Submission Guidelines

Papers for the Autoware Workshop at IV2025 will follow the same dates, format and requirements of IV2025 papers, namely: full-length papers up to 6 pages in the final submission; the paper template is the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings; and the submission will also use the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference Management System at PaperCept.  Autoware Workshop papers will be included in the IV2025 conference proceedings, indexed at IEEE Xplore. 

For Autoware Workshop papers submission at PaperCept, please select “Submit a contribution to IEEE IV 2025”, and then click “Submit” under “Workshop paper”.

List of Speakers (Tentative)

Besides the speakers of the accepted workshop papers, the Autoware workshop will include talks by members of the Autoware Centers of Excellence, including among others: Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania; Venkat Krovi, Clemson University; Simon Thompson, Tier IV Inc.; Doğan Ulus, Boğaziçi University; Krzysztof Walas, Poznan University of Technology; Alexander Carballo, Gifu University; Phillip Karle, Technical University of Munich; Ármin Bogár-Németh, Hungarian Motorsport and Green Mobility Development Agency; Ryohsuke Mitsudome, The Autoware Foundation.

Schedule (tentative)

OPENING

8:30 – 8:40 (GMT+2)

• Welcome address, Autoware Workshop organizers

8:40 – 9:00 (GMT+2)

• “A New EUREKA Moment: Aligning Open Source, Industry, and Academia for Autonomous Driving” by Steve Taylor, AWF

• “Taking Autoware to Production” by Muhammad Zain Khawaja, Managing Director of Product AWF

9:20 – 9:40 (GMT+2)

• Autoware achievements & future plans” by Ryohsuke Mitsudome, TSC Chair, AWF

COFFEE BREAK

9:40 – 10:00 (GMT+2)

INVITED TALKS

10:00 – 11:00 (GMT+2)
(30 mins, including Q&A)

• Daniel Sanchez (Tier IV Inc.) “Towards Open-Source Autonomy 2.0: A Modular End-to-End Diffusion Planner for Autoware Motion Planning”
• Takahiro Ishikawa (Tier IV Inc.) “CallbackIsolatedExecutor: Autoware’s Response-Time Improvement by a Novel Executor that Eliminates Nested Scheduling”

IV2025 PAPERS

11:00 – 12:00 (GMT+2)
(20 mins + 10 mins Q&A per paper)

• Youn-ho Choi, Eunjung Bong, Seok-Cheol Kee “LiDAR and Camera Fusion for Joint Depth Completion and Panoptic Segmentation Tasks in a Unified Network for 3D Semantic Segmentation.”
• Rudolf Krecht, Abdelrahman Alabdallah, Elisha Faith Misoga, Adrián Zsolt Kazda, Barham Farraj Barham, Ádám Radó Hunyadvári, Levente Birkás. “Evaluation of SLAM Methods for Small-Scale Autonomous Racing Vehicles.” [TBC]
• Chokiu Leung, Hitesh Pandya, Tiago Rodrigues, Makoto Itoh. “Development and Evaluation of a Visual Field Impairment Simulation using Autoware and AWSIM.”

LUNCH BREAK

12:00 – 13:00 (GMT+2)

AUTOWARE COE MEMBERS

13:00 – 14:30 (GMT+2)

• Johannes Betz, Technical University of Munich. 
• Rahul Mangharam, Po-Jen Wang, University of Pennsylvania.
• Venkat Krovi, Chinmay Samak, Tanmay Samak, Clemson University. 
• Alexander Carballo, Gifu University.

COFFEE BREAK

14:30 – 14:50 (GMT+2)

REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES WITH AUTOWARE AND PIXKIT

14:50 – 16:20 (GMT+2)

       Talks by PIX MOVING and PIXKIT users community

• David Walmroth, PIX Moving Inc.
• Alexander Carballo, Gifu University.
• Pedro Rito, Instituto de Telecomunicações Universidade de Aveiro.
• Maciej Krupka, Poznan University.
• Ehsan Javanmardi, University of Tokyo. (TBC)
• Chinmay Samak, Tanmay Samak, Clemson University.

AWF INDUSTRY & COMMUNITY MEMBERS

16:30 – 17:00 (GMT+2)

Several talks by Autoware industry and community members, about 15 mins per presentation

• Simon Thompson, David Wong, Kok Seang, Satoshi Tanaka (Tier IV Inc.) “AWML: a Machine Learning Operations Framework for Autoware”

CLOSING

17:00 – 17:10 (GMT+2)

• Autoware Workshop closing address, Representative Board of Directors, AWF

Organizers

• Alexander Carballo: Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Gifu University (alex@gifu-u.ac.jp)
  
• Rahul Mangharam: Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania (rahulm@seas.upenn.edu) ​​
• Krzysztof Walas: Department of Automation, Robotics and Electrical Engineering, Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Poznan Technical University (krzysztof.walas@put.poznan.pl)
• Ármin Bogár-Németh: A.I. and Simulations – Competence Center, Hungarian Motorsport and Green Mobility Development Agency Ltd. (armin.bogar-nemeth@humda.hu)
• Doğan Ulus: Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University (dogan.ulus@bogazici.edu.tr)

Join us in the enchanting and innovative Cluj-Napoca, where mystique meets cutting-edge technology!