iCAS Lab wins the Best Paper Award at IEEE COINS 2025 Conference
The iCAS Lab Ph.D. Students, Lily Lamb and MohammadReza Mohammadi, have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE COINS 2025 Conference.
Their paper, which is part of a project funded by the NSF CAREER program, explores how to enable real-time perception in autonomous systems under real-world conditions. "MultiModal Vision at the Edge: Toward Low-Latency Perception for Autonomous Systems", by Lily Lamb, Mohammadreza Mohammadi, and Ramtin Zand.
Abstract: The paper introduces an extended YOLOv8 framework that fuses RGB, LiDAR-based depth, and grayscale inputs using early, mid, and late fusion strategies, optimized for edge AI platforms. To support real-time processing, the team developed a parallelized depth generation pipeline that transforms sparse LiDAR point clouds into dense maps. Evaluated on the KITTI dataset and benchmarked across Raspberry Pi 5, Jetson Nano, and Google Coral Edge TPU, the models reveal the trade-offs between accuracy and latency, where late fusion delivers the highest accuracy (mAP@50: 92.7%), and early fusion achieves the lowest latency.