Achievements and Awards

Welcome to our Achievements and Awards section. To accelerate innovation in automotive industry and translate research outcomes into practical and viable urban mobility solutions, Continental-NTU Corporate Lab has been working on trailblazing projects, venturing off the beaten path, and striving to shape the future of mobility with diverse ideas, talents, backgrounds and experiences.

We are pleased to share the achievements that Continental-NTU Corporate Lab has made until now.

 

Publications 

63

Technology Disclosure

124

Patent Applications

56

Patent Awards

2

    1. Xiaoshi Zhong, Erik Cambria, Amir Hussain, "Does Semantics Always Aid Syntax? An Empirical Study on Named Entity Recognition and Classification", Neural Computing and Applications
    2. Yang Song, Qiyu Kang, Wee Peng Tay, "Error-Correcting Output Codes with Ensemble Diversity for Robust Learning in Neural Networks", AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
    3. Yuekang Li, Hongxu Chen, Cen Zhang, Siyang Xiong, Chaoyi Liu, Yi Wang, "Ori: A Greybox Fuzzer for SOME/IP Protocols in Automotive Ethernet", APSEC 2020 : Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
    4. Guohao Peng, Jun Zhang, Heshan Li, Danwei Wang, "Attentional Pyramid Pooling of Salient Visual Residuals for Place Recognition", ICCV2021
    5. Mingyue Cui, Christian Wiraja, Mengjia Zheng, Ken Tye Yong, Chenjie Xu, "Advancement of skin-on-the-chip platforms", Advanced Therapeutics
    6. Chao Sun, Guoqiang Hu, "Distributed Generalized Nash Equilibrium Seeking of N-Coalition Games with Full and Distributive Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
    7. Ruikang Luo, Yicheng Zhang, Yao Zhou, Hailin Chen, Le Yang, Jianfei Yang, Rong Su, "Deep Learning Approach for Long-Term Prediction of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station Availability", ITSC 2021
    8. Y. Cao, Y. Zheng, S. Lin, Y. Liu, Y. Teo, Y. Toh, V. Adiga, "Automatic HMI Structure Exploration Via Curiosity-Based Reinforcement Learning",  ASE’21 Industry
    9. Yujie Liu, Yong Liang Guan, David González G. , "Near-Optimal BEM OTFS Receiver with Low Pilot Overhead for High-Mobility Communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications
    10. Ge MengShi, Erik Cambria, "Explainable Metaphor Identification Inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory", AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2022
    11. Kang QiYu, Yang Song, Tay Wee Peng, Ding QinXu, "Stable Neural ODE with Lyapunov-Stable Equilibrium Points for Defending Against Adversarial Attacks", Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021
    12. Sun Chao, Hu GuoQiang, "Nash Equilibrium Seeking with Prescribed Performance", Control Theory and Technology, 2023
    13. Ruicheng Liu, Rui Mao, Anh Tuan Luu, Erik Cambria, "A Brief Survey on Recent Advances in Coreference Resolution", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Review
    14. Dr. Yujie Liu, Prof. Yong Liang Guan, Dr. David González G. , "BEM OTFS Receiver with Superimposed Pilots over Channels with Doppler and Delay Spread", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022
    15. Joash Lee En Jie, "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Time Allocation and Directional Transmission in Joint Radar-Communication", IEEE 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
    16. Rui Mao, Qian Liu, Kai He, Wei Li, Erik Cambria, "The Biases of Pre-trained Language Models: An Empirical Study on Prompt-based Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection", IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
    17. Li Zheng Yu, Guo Heng, Chau Lap Pui, Tan Cheen Hau, Yap Kim Hui, "Object-Augmented Skeleton-Based Action Recognition", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS 2023)
    18. Liping Huang, Sida Zhao, Ruikang Luo, Rong Su, Mohit Sindhwani, Siew Kiat Chan, "An Incremental Map Matching Approach with Speed Constraints for High Sampling Rate Vehicle Trajectories", ICCA 2022
    19. Xiangkun He, Zhongxu Hu, Haohan Yang, Chen Lv, "Personalized robotic control via constrained multi-objective reinforcement learning", Neurocomputing 2024
    20. Avalpreet Singh Brar, Prafull Kasture, Su Rong, "Supply Demand Balancing for EV rental fleet", IEEE ITSC 2022 Conference
    21. Liping Huang, Zhenghuan Li, Ruikang Luo, Rong Su, "Missing Traffic Data Imputation with A Linear Model Based on Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis ", Sensors
    22. Ruikang Luo, Yaofeng Song, Han Zhao, Liping Huang, Yi Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Rong Su, "AST-GIN: Attribute-Augmented Spatial-Temporal Graph Informer Network for Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station Availability Forecasting", Sensors
    23. Yushi Cao, Yon Shin Teo, Yan Zheng, Yuxuan Toh, Shang-Wei Lin, "A Holistic DRL-Powered HMI Software Exploration Framework for Testing", SOMET 2022
    24. Zhai LiMing, "A3GAN: Attribute-Aware Anonymization Networks for Face De-identification", ACM Multimedia 2022
    25. Jose Peeterson Emerson Raja, Arvind Easwaran, "Event-Driven Real-Time Multi-Objective ChargingSchedule Optimization For Electric Vehicle Fleets", ITSC conference
    26. LiPing, ZhengHuan Li, SiDa Zhao, RuiKang Luo, Rong Su, "Coupling urban road travel time and traffic status from vehicle trajetories by Gaussian Distribution ", IEEE ITSC 2022 Conference
    27. Milan, Edwin, Leornadus, "Ink-based Transparent Compliant Electrode for Direct Coating on Untreated Hydrophobic PDMS Surface", Sensors and Actuators Reports
    28. Yaowen Zheng, Yuekang Li, Cen Zhang, Hongsong Zhu, Yang Liu, Limin Sun, "Efficient Greybox Fuzzing of Applications in Linux-based IoT Devices via Enhanced User-mode Emulation", The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2022
    29. Joash Lee En Jie, "Intelligent Resource Allocation in Joint Radar-Communication with Graph Neural Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
    30. Yangfeng Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yujie Liu, Yufei Jiang, Yong Liang Guan, Vincent K. N. Lau, "Hierarchical BEM based Channel Estimation with Very Low Pilot Overhead for High Mobility MIMO-OFDM Systems", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
    31. Cen Zhang and Yuekang Li, Hao Zhou,  Xiaohan Zhang, Yaowen Zheng,  Xian Zhan, Xiaofei Xie, Xiapu Luo, Yang Liu, Sheikh Mahbub Habib, "Automata Guided Control Flow Sensitive Fuzz Driver Generation", USENIX Security 2023
    32. Xuehao Yang, Di Wang, Shengfei Lyu, Ying Shu, Chunyan Miao, "Effects of sampling frequency and window size on identifying risky driving maneuvers", ICCSE 2023
    33. She Rui, Kang QiYu, Wang SiJie, Tay Wee Peng, Guan Yong Liang, Diego Navarro, Andreas Hartmannsgruber, "Location Learning for AVs: LiDAR and Image Landmarks Fusion Localization with Graph Neural Networks", The 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2022), Macau, China
    34. Wang SiJie, Kang QiYu, Rui She, Wee Peng Tay, Andreas, Deigo, "RobustLoc: Robust Camera Pose Regression in Challenging Driving Environments", AAAI2023
    35. GeYao, Guan Yong Liang, David Gonzalez, "OTFS Signaling for SCMA with Coordinated Multi-Point Vehicle Communications", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
    36. MingXing Wen,  Jun Zhang, Tairan Chen, GuoHao Peng, Timothy Chia, Ying Chong Ma, "Vision based sidewalk navigation for last mile delivery robot", 2022 17th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)
    37. Mengshi Ge, Rui Mao, Erik Cambria, "A survey on computational metaphor processing techniques from identification, interpretation, generation to Application", Artificial Intelligence Review
    38. Timothy Chia, Jun Zhang, Heshan Li, Guohao Peng, Mingxing Wen, Da Wei Kee, P.G.C.N. Senarathne, "CorriereTM: Topo-metric Mapping and Localization based on Place Categorization and Place Recognition for a Delivery Robot on Footpath", 2022 17th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)
    39. Heshan Li, Guohao Peng, Jun Zhang, Sriram Vaikundam, Danwei Wang, "AdaptSeqVPR: An Adaptive Sequence-based Visual Place Recognition Pipeline", IROS 2023
    40. Guohao Peng, Heshan Li, Yifeng Huang, Jun Zhang, Mingxing Wen, Singh Rahul, Danwei Wang, "CAHIR: Co-Attentive Hierarchical Image Representations for Visual Place Recognition", ICRA2023
    41. Jingquan Ge, Yuekang Li, Yaowen Zheng, Yang Liu, Sheikh Mahbub Habib, "More Secure Collaborative APIs resistant to Flush-Based Cache Attacks on Cortex-A9 Based Automotive System", 6th ACM COMPUTER SCIENCE IN CARS SYMPOSIUM – (CSCS 2022)
    42. Zhongxu Hu, Runjia Tan, Yanxin Zhou, Junyang Woon, Chen Lv, "Template based category agnostic instand detection for adaptive robotic manipulation", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
    43. Liu YuJie, Guan Yong Liang, David Gonzalez, "A novel dual-rate OTFS system resilient to OFO and doppler spread", IEEE ICC 2023
    44. Yanfeng Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yujie Liu, Yufei Jiang, Ruibin Yin, Yong Liang Guan, David Gonzalez G., "Basis Expansion Extrapolation based DL ChannelPrediction with UL Channel Estimates for TDD MIMO-OTFS Systems", IEEE ICC 2023
    45. Yang Li, Amirmohammad Kazemeini, Yash Mehta, Erik Cambria, "Multitask learning for emotion and personality traits detection", Neurocomputing
    46. Jinjie Ni, Tom Young, Vlad Pandelea, Fuzhao Xue, Erik Cambria, "Recent advances in deep learning based dialogue systems: a systematic survey ", Artificial Intelligence Review
    47. Elisa Rasouli, Wan Jefrey Basirunb,c , Mohd Rafie Johanb, Majid Rezayid, MR Mahmoudiane, Daniel Puiu Poenara, "Electrochemical DNA-nano biosensor for the detection of cervical cancer-causing HPV-16 using ultrasmall Fe3O4-Au core-shell nanoparticles",  Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
    48. Jinyuan Liu, Yong Liang Guan, Yao Ge, Longfei Yin, Bruno Clerckx, "Energy Efficiency of Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Multibeam Satellite Communications", The 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring
    49. GeYao, Guan Yong Liang, David Gonzalez, "Low-Complexity Memory AMP Detector for High-Mobility MIMO-OTFS SCMA Systems", ICC workshop 2023
    50. Elisa Rasouli, Wan Jefrey Basirun, Mohd Rafie Johan, Majid Rezayid, MR Mahmoudian, Daniel Puiu Poenar, "Electrochemical DNA-nano biosensor for the detection of cervical cancer-causing HPV-16 using ultrasmall Fe3O4-Au core-shell nanoparticles", ICMAT2023
    51. She Rui, Kang QiYu, Wang SiJie, Tay Wee Peng, "Robust Graph Neural Diffusion for image matching", Conference proceedings, ICIP 2023
    52. Thara Ravindra, Boh Wai Fong, Ben Choi, "Utility, Experience or Self - Adoption of Robotic Delivery", Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Nanchang 2023
    53. YanFeng Zhang, Liu YuJie, YuFei Jiang, Yong Liang Guan, David Gonzalez, "A Cross-Domain Iterative OTFS Receiver for Sparse Doubly Selective Channels", IEEE Wireless communication letters
    54. Shi HaoSen, Ren Shen, Zhang TianWei, Sinno JianLin Pan, "Deep Multitask Learning with Progressive Parameter Sharing", ICCV 2023
    55. Zheng Lunan, Wen MingXing, "Navigation Strategy of Last-Mile Delivery Robot and Its Application to Handicapped Ramp Access", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
    56. Shen Ren, SHiHaosen, "Learning compact neural networks with over parametrisation for Deep multiask learning ", 1st International Workshop on Generalizing from Limited Resources in the Open World (GLOW23)
    57. LIU YuJie, Guan Yong Liang, David Gonzalez, "Turbo BEM OTFS Receiver with Optimized Superimposed Pilot Power", IEEE Transactions on  Communications
    58. Li YanRan, Teo YonShin, Lin Shang Wei, Yan Zheng, "Is AI testing beneficial for the manufacturer and social welfare? Optimal test strategy of a smart product", Expert Systems with Applications
    59. Rui Mao, Kai He, XuLang Zhang, GuanYi Chen, Jinj, "A survey on semantic processing techniques", Journal: Information Fusion
    60. Da Wei Kee, jun Zhang, he shan LI, GUo Hao Peng, Lunan Zheng, etc, "Continental-NTU Delivery Robotic Platform Dataset, Perception and Navigation Footpath", 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC 2023
    61. Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Sen Chen, Zhengzi Xu, Lingling Fan, Lida Zhao, Yiran Zhang, Yang Liu, "Mitigating persistence of open-source vulnerabilities in Maven Ecosystem", The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference
    62. ZhanFeng Mo, HaoSen Si, SInno JiaLin Pan, "Pruning via Sparsity-indexed ODE: A Continuous Sparsity Viewpoint", International conference on Machine Learning ICML 2023
    63. Etienne Sapin, Suraj Menon, JingQuan Ge, Maurice Heymann, Rene Palige, YueKang Li, Gabriel Bayman, Yang Liu, "Monitoring automotive software security health through trustworthiness score", ACM CSCS 2023
      1. A Novel Method for Radar Sensing Using Communication Signals with Single Carrier Preamble and Multi-carrier data, Application No: 21 159 355.3
      2. Method and apparatus for determining symbols transmitted via OFDM signals, Application No: 10 2021 116 549.0
      3. Transmitter and receiver for and method of transmitting and receiving symbols over an orthogonal time frequency space communication channel subject to Doppler spread and multipath, Application No: 10 2021 126 321.2
      4. Curiosity-based HMI Software Path Finder, Application No: 10 2021 115 031.0
      5. Method For Automatically Exploring States And Transitions Of A Human Machine Interface (HMI) Device, Application No: 10 2021 131 992.7
      6. Method For Determining An Image Descriptor, Encoding Pipeline, And Visual Places Recognition, Application No: 10 2021 114 555.4
      7. Training of a machine learning model for predictive maintenance tasks, Application No: 2210261
      8. Systems And Methods For Deep Multi-Task Learning For Embedded Machine Vision Applications, Application No: 17/534,845
      9. Position determination of a vehicle using image segmentations, Application No: 10202205185R
      10. Receiver for, and Method of Transmitting and Receiving Symbols over, Time Varying Channels with Doppler Spread, Application No: 102022106490.3
      11. Method For Generating A Fuzzing Harness, Application No: 10 2022 116 237.0
      12. Face anonymization using a generative adversarial network, Application No: 22166968.2
      13. Computer-Implemented Methods For Forecasting Availability Of An Infrastructure Component And Route Planning Based On The Forecast, Application No: 10 2022 119 607.0
      14. A Computer-Implemented Method For Forecasting Traffic Indicators In A Road Network, Application No: 10 2022 124 613.2 
      15. A computer-implemented method for traffic data imputation and applications thereof, Application No: 10 2022 121 820.1
      16. Driver profiling based on fine-grained segmentations of Driving Trajectories, Application No: 10 2022 134 426.6
      17. A Computer-Implemented Method For Action Recognition And Application For Vehicle Occupant Or Outside Vehicle Agent Monitoring, Application No: 10 2022 133 342.6
      18. A method of processing wireless communication signals for use in radar, Application No: 10 2021 132 772.5
      19. High Temperature resilient black electrode for smart display application, Application No: 2217775.2
      20. METHOD OF PROCESSING COMMUNICATION SIGNALS FOR USE IN RADAR SENSING, AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO EXECUTE THE METHOD, Application No: 102022118 553.2
      21. Method Of Transmitting Binary Data Sequences In An OTFS-Based SCMA Communication System With Coordinated Multipoint, And Transmitter And Receiver Implementing The Method, Application No: 10 2022 117 815.3
      22. Transmitter and receiver for, and method, of transmitting and receiving symbols over time varying channels with Doppler, Application No: 10 2022 125 445.3
      23. Senders And Receivers For, And Methods Of Sending And Receiving Symbols Over Time-Varying Channels With Doppler Spread, Application No: 10 2022 127 946.4
      24. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS  ), Application No: 2215479.3
      25. A Device For Receiving A Tactile Input From A User, Application No: 2211930.9
      26. METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TEST PLAN GENERATION, Application No: 2217178.9
      27. A computer-implemented method for camera pose regression in a challenging traffic environment, Application No: 2216510.4
      28. A Computer-Implemented Method For Generating An Automata-Guided Fuzz Driver And Fuzzing Method Using The Fuzz Driver, Application No: 2216175.6
      29. A Computer Implemented Building Facade Parsing Method And Related Methods, Application No: 10 2022 112 442.8
      30. Method For Image Segmentation Matching, Application No: 10202205141P
      31. Broadcast-Assisted Co-Channel Co-existence for C-V2X, Application No: 10202250680W
      32. AGC Saturation Mitigation For LTE And NR Sidelink Co-Existence Scenarios With Different Numerologies, Application No: 10202251181E
      33. ON-OFF switching of LTE-SCI decoding in NR-SL Rel. 18 devices, Application No: 10202251182K
      34. Method and System Of Adaptive Feature Sharing For Deep Multitask Learning, Application No : 10 2023 105 530.5
      35. A computer-implemented method for training an untrained policy network of an autonomous agent, Application No: 2304559.4
      36. End-to-end method for deploying RL agents with dynamic mismatch in the real world, Application No : 2310954.9
      37. Driver Monitoring Camera, Application No: 2308332.2
      38. RobTransformer: Point Cloud Registration with Graph Neural Partial Differential Equations, Application No : 102023112148
      39. A Coalition Game Method for Multi-robot Task Allocation with Battery and Time Window Constraints, Application No: 102023111099.3
      40. Multi-Source Breadth-First Search Graph Traversal-based Coalition Formation for Distributed Multi-robot Task Allocation, Application No: 102023111100
      41. Dynamics-Conditioned Policies For Non-Stationary Environments, Application No: 2302833.5
      42. A Skin Patch Wearable Biosensor For Simultaneous Monitoring Of Physiological Parameters In Interstitial Fluid, Application No : 2311719.5
      43. Method for navigating a robot, navigation system and robot, Application No: 2308491.6
      44. A Preset-Time Coordination Method for Package Delivery, Application No : 10 2023 116 197.0
      45. AdaptSeqVPR: An Adaptive Sequence-based Visual Place Recognition Pipeline, Application No: 2306281.3
      46. Method of transmitting symbols over an orthogonal time frequency space communication channel subject to Doppler spread, and transmitter and receiver implementing the method, Application No: 10 2023 103 728.5
      47. Method of detecting OTFS SCMA signals and receiver implementing the method, Application No : 10 2023 109 929.9
      48. A Computer-Implemented Method For Action Recognition Employing Modality And Temporal Feature Shifting, Application No: 10 2023 121 998.7
      49. Method and system of vehicle rebalancing for vehicle fleet, Application No: 10202302471Y
      50. A computer-implemented method for controlling a multi-agent system including N autonomous agents, N≥2, Application No: 10 2023 122 912.5
      51. A Computer-Implemented Method For Operating Multiple Mobile Agents In An Environment Having Improved Scalability, Application No : 2317293.5
      52. AMR Lift Integration (ALI) Solution, Application No : 2315033.7
      53. Method For RL-Based Local Motion Planner To Generalize Over Unseen Navigation Environments With Input Feature Changes , Application No : 2314372
      54. A System and Method for Determining A Charging Schedule for A Plurality of Vehicles, Application No: 10202302453P
      55. Method of processing communication signals and vehicular radar signals for use in radar sensing, and apparatus configured to execute the method, Application No : 10 2023 123 385.8
      56. DFT-Chirp-S-OFDM for Uplink High Mobility Communications, Application No : 10202303449W
      1. Systems and Methods for Deep Multi-task Learning for Embedded Machine Vision Applications, Patent Number: US11527074 B1
      2. A Method of Processing Wireless Communication Signals for use in Radar Sensing, Patent Number: DE102021132772 B4
      Best Paper Awards
      1. Yuekang Li, Hongxu Chen, Cen Zhang, Siyang Xiong, Chaoyi Liu and Yi Wang, "Ori: A Greybox Fuzzer for SOME/IP Protocols in Automotive Ethernet", APSEC 2020 : Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
      2. Yushi Cao, Yanran Li, Yon Shin Teo, Yan Zheng, Zhexin Liang, Shang-wei Lin, “An Automatic Test Plan Generation Approach for Automotive Software Testing”, SOMET 2023 : International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques
      Other Awards
      1. Philip Lee Hann Yung and Lin Dan, “ Driver Action Recognition using Artificial Intelligence”, Winners of 2023 Global Undergraduate Awards - Highly Commended