Universidad de Alcalá

As the IPC Co-Chairs of IEEE IV 2013, we are very pleased to welcome you to the conference in the city of Gold Coast, Australia. The Program Committee has organised a technical program encompassing around 220 regular contributions and 30 workshop papers, offering a broad insight into both the state of the art and the future of intelligent vehicles. As for previous IV conferences, a single-track format is followed. Around 90% of the papers will be presented as posters in six multidisciplinary poster sessions. Eight oral sessions focus on current research topics, e.g. driver assistance systems, cooperative systems, vehicle environment perception, automated vehicles, control systems and collision avoidance, sensor technologies and active and passive safety. We have the great privilege of welcoming our distinguished keynote speakers. At the time of writing this welcome letter, the following distinguished speakers have confirmed their attendance: Professor Katsuhiro Nishinari, the University of Tokyo Japan, who will provide his view on jamology, as a solution for traffic jams; Dr Michel Parent, INRIA - IMARA France, who will discuss about the need of cooperation in autonomous vehicles, and Professor Jugdutt Singh, La Trobe University Australia, who will make his point about cooperative multimodal intelligent transport systems. You will also have the opportunity to participate in one of our three workshops on Sunday, June 23rd, just before the main technical program starts. These include (1) Human Interaction with Intelligent Vehicles, (2) Workshop on Environment Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, and (3) Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles.