CALL FOR PAPERS 
Sensor-based Protection of Vulnerable Road Users 

- Special Session at Intelligent Vehicles 2002 - 
June 18-20, 2002, Versailles, France 
http://www.inria.fr/actualites/colloques/2002/iv/index.en.html

It is estimated that more than 430.000 pedestrians are injured and 
39.000 killed yearly in traffic worldwide. Pedestrian accidents 
represent the second largest source of traffic-related injuries and 
fatalities, right after accidents involving vehicle occupants.Vehicle 
manufacturers and suppliers are developing several actuator concepts to 
decrease collision impact (extensible bumpers and motorhoods) but 
lacking is a sensor system to detect dangerous situations sufficiently 
ahead of time. 

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers working 
on sensor systems (e.g. video, IR, radar, laser) that can detect and/or 
track pedestrians and other vulnerable road users (e.g. bicyclists) from 
a moving platform. Of interest are novel algorithms as well as new 
sensor and system concepts for this difficult problem. Contributions 
that involve quantitative results derived from experiments on large 
amounts of sensor data are especially welcome. 

Authors see conference web site for submission details. Please reference 
special session in the cover letter. For more information, contact the 
session chair. 

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Submission: December 1st, 2001 
Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2002 
Camera-ready copy: April 1st, 2002 

SESSION CHAIR: 
Dr. D.M. Gavrila, DaimlerChrysler Research, Ulm, Germany 
mailto:dariu.gavrila@DaimlerChrysler.com