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Perception Error Modeling for Autonomous Driving


on 12-05-2025

... Justin Dauwels is the invited IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer on May 12th (15h30), hosted at Politécnico de Leiria School of Technology and Management (ESTG).

This lecture is organized by the IEEE SPS Student Branch Chapter of Leiria and the IEEE SPS Portugal Chapter in collaboration with the IEEE Portugal Section, the Portuguese Chapters of VTS and ComSoc, the Seatle Section Joint Chapter, and Politécnico de Leiria School of Technology and Management (ESTG), with support of IT.

Summary of the lecture:
One of the main challenges in autonomous driving is the occurrence of errors in perception systems. These errors represent significant risk factors that compromise the safety of both occupants and road users. These problems are exacerbated in systems based solely on cameras, while they are more manageable in configurations that integrate sensors such as LiDAR and radar. In this lecture, promoted by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Portugal Chapter and organized by the IEEE SPS Student Branch Chapter, the aim is to analyze the effects of these errors on the behavior of autonomous vehicles, how they can be modeled and simulated in virtual environments, and their consideration in safety assessment processes.

Bio:
Justin Dauwels (SM) is an Associate Professor at the TU Delft (Circuits and Systems, Department of Microelectronics). He was an Associate Professor of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore till the end of 2020. He was the Deputy Director of the ST Engineering – NTU corporate lab. Dr. Dauwels obtained his PhD degree in electrical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in December 2005.

Dr. Dauwels was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (2006-2007), a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-2010), a JSPS postdoctoral Fellow (2007), a BAEF Fellow (2008), a Henri-Benedictus Fellow of the King Baudouin Foundation (2008), and a JSPS invited Fellow (2010, 2011). He served as Chairman of the IEEE CIS Chapter in Singapore (2018 to 2020); Associate Editor, of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2018-2023); Associate Editor, of Elsevier Journal Signal Processing (since 2021); member, of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Neural Systems (since 2020), and organizer, IEEE conferences and special sessions. He is also Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee and IEEE Biomedical Signal Processing Technical Committee, both since 2018.

His research is focused on intelligent transportation systems and has been featured by the BBC, Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Channel 5, and numerous technology websites. Besides his academic efforts, the team of Dr. Justin Dauwels also collaborates intensely with local start-ups, SMEs, and agencies, in addition to MNCs, in the field of data-driven transportation, logistics, and medical data analytics.

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EIEC - Iberian Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics


on 06-05-2025

... Since its first edition in Laredo (Cantabria), in July 2000, the Iberian Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics (EIEC) was held with great success on fourteen additional occasions: Aracena (Huelva, 2001), Sedano (Burgos, 2003), Seia (Guarda, 2005), Aiguablava (Girona, 2007), Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz, 2008), Monfragüe (Cáceres, 2010), Sesimbra (Setúbal, 2011), Denia (Alicante, 2013), Baeza (Jaén, 2015), Las Caldas (Asturias, 2016), Coimbra (2018), Potes (2019), Núria (Girona, 2022) and Cadiz (Andalucía, 2023).

In its fifteenth edition, the Iberian Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics (EIEC) will be held in May 2025 at Aveiro, Portugal, from 6th to 9th, and counts with the organization of the Radio Systems research team of Instituto de Telecomunicações and University of Aveiro.

EIEC meetings allow the exchange of knowledge between Portuguese and Spanish research group members working on computational electromagnetics applications in the various branches of Physics and Electrical Engineering by providing a highly specialized environment. These contacts contribute to forging closer ties in a community whose activity could be diluted in forums with a broader scope, favoring the establishment of partnerships that eventually lead to the development of joint projects.


The meeting covers the following topics:

Integral Equation Methods in time or frequency domains
Differential Equation Methods in time or frequency domains
Numerical Methods and Multi-Physics
Asymptotic Methods and High-Frequency Techniques
Metasurfaces, Metamaterials, and Periodic Structures
Inverse Scattering and Imaging Techniques
Optimization Techniques and Machine Learning for EM-based Design
Electromagnetic Compatibility / Electromagnetic Interference (EMC/EMI)
Electromagnetic Simulation for Advanced Applications
Other Topics in Computational EM
Antenna theory and design


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