14/06/2026
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Session: Multimodal Sensing and Communication in Autonomous Systems and Smart Cities
We are pleased to invite researchers, academics, graduate students, and industry practitioners to submit their papers to the Special Session Multimodal Sensing and Communication in Autonomous Systems and Smart Cities.
This special session focuses on advancing multimodal sensing, intelligent communication, and AI-enabled decision-making for autonomous systems in smart city environments. As urban infrastructures become increasingly interconnected, data-driven, and dynamic, there is a growing need for integrated solutions that combine sensing, communication, and artificial intelligence to support efficient, reliable, and real-time operations.
The session welcomes original research papers, case studies, and system demonstrations related to multimodal data fusion, edge AI, intelligent communication networks, communication-efficient learning, and AI-enabled distributed autonomous systems. Applications of interest include intelligent transportation systems, smart infrastructure monitoring, environmental sensing, disaster management, autonomous robotics, and UAV-based operations.
📌 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Multimodal sensing systems in smart cities, including vision, audio, and IoT sensors
• AI-driven communication for autonomous and distributed systems
• Multimodal data fusion and cross-modal learning
• Edge AI and real-time data processing for sensing and communication
• AI for wireless, mobile 5G/6G, and IoT communications
• Communication-efficient AI and federated learning for smart sensing
• Digital Twin integration with sensing and communication systems
• Real-time data assimilation and streaming analytics
• Autonomous robots and UAVs with multimodal sensing and communication
• Intelligent transportation and infrastructure monitoring systems
• Early warning systems and predictive analytics in urban environments
• Robust and reliable AI under communication constraints and noisy data
• Cyber-physical systems and distributed autonomous control
• Human-AI interaction in smart city monitoring systems
📚 Publication:
All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publication in the Springer LNICST series and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library: AICON proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, including Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Inspec, SCImago, and Zentralblatt MATH.
📅 Important Dates:
• Submission deadline: 10 July 2026
• Notification deadline: 10 August 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: 20 September 2026
👥 Special Session Chairs:
Chair: Associate Professor Huynh Kha Tu, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Co-Chairs:
• Dr. Le Duy Tan, International University, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Dr. Nguyen Duc Dung, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Associate Professor Huynh Tuong Nguyen, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Dr. Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
We warmly welcome high-quality submissions that contribute to scalable, resilient, and intelligent smart city ecosystems.