Publications

David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pesé (2027). Meta-VLM: Which Metadata Do Vision-Language Models Need to Drive Safely?. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'27).
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Pedram MohajerAnsari, Iwinosa Aideyan, Anna Galeano, Arjun Arunasalam, Bart Knijnenburg, Richard Brooks, Mert D. Pesé (2027). User Perceptions of Deceptive In-Vehicle Infotainment User Interfaces. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'27).
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Mohammad Saeid, Amir Salarpour, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Mert D. Pesé (2026). Relational Feature Distillation for Lightweight 3D Point Cloud Segmentation. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26).
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Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Jan De Voor, Anirudh Mitra, Alkim Domeke, Habeeb Olufowobi, Mohammad Hamad, Mert D. Pesé (2026). On the Vulnerability of Lane Detectors to Physical Shadow. IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'26).
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Fei Meng, Junhao Xu, Wanli Cheng, Yunlong Xiao, Jinge Bao, Mert D. Pesé, Siyu Huang (2026). On the Quantum Advantage in Black-Box Adversarial Attacks. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26).
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Derik Pack, Anthony Leclerk, Jordan Hopkins, Mert D. Pesé (2026). LLMCluster: Fuzzing Crash Triage using Generative AI. International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS'26).
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Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Run Wang, Mert D. Pesé (2026). GATE: Reliability-Gated Gaussian Evidence Fusion for Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'26).
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Yu Wei Liu, Jan De Voor, Caden Allen, Siddharth Thumsi, Mert D. Pesé (2026). CANdy: Backward-Compatible CAN Message Authentication via Sub-Bit Injection on Commercial Controllers. International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID'26).
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Christopher Salas, Mert D. Pesé, Bing Li, Jonathon Smereka, Long Cheng (2026). Evaluating the Robustness of Segmentation Models against Adversarial Patches in Off-Road Environments. NDIA Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium (GVSETS'26).
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Mert D. Pesé, Arman Tabaddor, Teja Guruvelli, Roland Varriale, Marco De Vincenzi, Kang G Shin (2026). Short: CARdea: Two-Phase Plausibility-Based Vehicle-to-Vehicle Anomaly Detection System. 4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec).
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