Publications

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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Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pesé (2026). Distilling Vision Language Model for Robust Traffic Sign Perception in Autonomous Vehicles. The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026.
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Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Michael Kühr, Siyu Huang, Mohammad Hamad, Habeeb Olufowobi, Sebastian Steinhorst, Bing Li, Mert D. Pesé (2026). Toward Inherently Robust VLMs Against Visual Perception Attacks. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2026.
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Mohammad Saeid, Amir Salarpour, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Mert D. Pesé (2026). NPNet: A Non-Parametric Network with Adaptive Gaussian-Fourier Positional Encoding for 3D Classification and Segmentation. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2026.
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David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Cigdem Kokenoz, Bing Li, Mert D. Pesé (2026). From MIRAGE to CLEAR - Component-Level Explainable Anomaly Reasoning for Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems. The 56th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2026.
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David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Long Cheng, Abolfazl Razi, Mert D. Pesé (2026). Comparative Analysis of Patch Attack on VLM-Based Autonomous Driving Architectures. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2026.
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Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, David Fernandez, Mert D. Pesé (2026). Budget-Aware Adaptive Adversarial Patches for Black-Box Object Detection. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2026.
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Jan De Voor, Levent Celik, Johannes N. Weidner, Mohammad Mohammad, Ameer Kashani, Richard Brooks, Mert D. Pesé (2026). An Open-Source Testbed for Next-Generation In-Vehicle Zonal Architectures. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC).
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David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pesé (2026). Understanding Adversarial Transferability in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving - A Cross-Architecture Analysis. SAE Technical Paper.
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Michael Kühr, Mohammad Hamad, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Mert D. Pesé, Sebastian Steinhorst (2026). SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline in Autonomous Vehicles. 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2026).
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