Technical Program

 

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Friday, October 17, 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025

 

Detailed Technical Program

Workshops

Workshop: Trusted Artificial Intelligence
Thursday, October 16, 14:00 - 17:40, Venezia Room, 5th floor
Supported by the project "Romanian Hub for Artificial Intelligence - HRIA", Smart Growth, Digitization and Financial Instruments Program, MySMIS no. 334906

Workshop Details: here.

Workshop: Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
Thursday, October 16, 14:00 - 17:40, Beijing Room, 5th floor
supported by the project "Romanian Hub for Artificial Intelligence - HRIA", Smart Growth, Digitization and Financial Instruments Program, MySMIS no. 334906

Workshop Details: here.

Keynote Lecture

Plenary Presentation (Friday, October 17, 9:00 - 09:50)
Ball Room

Chair: Sergiu Nedevschi
Co-Chair:
Rodica Potolea
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Keynote Vivi Nastase
Vivi Nastase, Idiap Institute (Martigny)/University of Geneva, CH


Friday, October 17, 09:50 - 11:30
Venezia room (5th floor)

09:50 - 10:10
Decoding brain states from EEG using Transformer architectures View Paper
Sabina Volcov
Eugen-Richard Ardelean
Vasile Vlad Moca
Raul Cristian Mureșan
Mihaela Dînșoreanu

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, RO
Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
10:10 - 10:30
EnfXAI: Enhancing Seizure Detection with Interpretable Deep Neuro-Fuzzy Architectures View Paper
Flavia Costi
Emanuel Covaci
Ovidiu Roman
Darian Onchis
Codruta Istin




10:30 - 10:50
A comparative analysis of time-frequency transforms as feature extraction for spike sorting View Paper
Terec Razvan
Eugen-Richard Ardelean
Raul Cristian Muresan
Vasile Vlad Moca
Mihaela Dinsoreanu

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
10:50 - 11:10
Evaluating Time Series Representation Methods for Rehabilitation Exercise Recognition View Paper
Vlad-Alexandru Florea
Alexandru Sorici
Ștefan Saraev
Lidia-Elena Manea
Octavian Manea

National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO


11:10 - 11:30
Lightweight and Interpretable CNNs for Multi-Label ECG Diagnosis on the Edge View Paper
Catalin Aurelian Popa
Radu Dogaru

CV: Special session: Automated Driving 1
Friday, October 17, 09:50 - 11:30
Ball room

09:50 - 10:10
Optimization of DNNs Using a Hardware Aware Two Stage NAS for Automotive Embedded Targets View Paper
Andrei Liviu Viman
Mihai Negru
Martin Rapp
Taha Soliman
Robert Bosch Engineering Center, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

10:10 - 10:30
Open-World Video Panoptic Segmentation for Aerial Perception using Foundation Models View Paper
Natalia Boncea
Vivian Chiciudean
Florin Oniga
Sergiu Nedevschi

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
10:30 - 10:50
DriverTracker: A Hybrid Approach for Driving Behavior Analysis View Paper
Tudor-George Goian
Marius-George Marcu

10:50 - 11:10
Gaze Tracking via L2CS-Net Pipeline with Ridge Regression and Kalman Post-filtering View Paper
Ioana-Maeva Carbunescu-Stoenescu
Mircea Giurgiu

11:10 - 11:30
Region-Aware Token Aggregation for Fine-Grained Change Detection View Paper
Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO


Friday, October 17, 09:50 - 11:30
Beijing room (5th floor)

09:50 - 10:10
Electronic Control Unit Mechanical Architecture Optimization using Machine Learning View Paper
Diana-Nicoleta Zaha
10:10 - 10:30
A System for Logic Circuits Interpretation from Hand-Drawn Diagrams View Paper
Alexandru Cristian Moldovan
Constantin Ioan Nandra

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
10:30 - 10:50
Improving Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Flow Through Machine Learning: A Focus on Pre-Silicon Verification View Paper
Alecsandra Rusu
Marius Neag
Marina Țopa


10:50 - 11:10
Augmenting Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in PET Bottle Manufacturing Data View Paper
Radu Sorostinean
Catalina Neghina
Arpad Gellert


11:10 - 11:30
Detecting Anomalies in Distributed RPC Traffic with Isolation Forests View Paper
Andrei-Marius Muntea
Radu-Marian Portase
Gheorghe Sebestyen-Pal

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO


Friday, October 17, 11:50 - 13:30
Venezia room (5th floor)

11:50 - 12:10
A Survey of Compositionality Mechanisms in Neural Models în Support of Explainability View Paper
Florin Leon
Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, RO
12:10 - 12:30
Towards Modeling Semiconductor Laser Systems via Deep Learning: A Preliminary Study View Paper
Radu Razvan Slavescu
Vasile Tronciu
Sergiu Zaporojan
Natalia Gubceac
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova
12:30 - 12:50
An approach to using Self-Supervised Learning for Spike Sorting View Paper
Andrei-George Iclodean
Eugen-Richard Ardelean
Vasile Vlad Moca
Raul Cristian Muresan
Mihaela Dinsoreanu

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, RO

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
12:50 - 13:10
Predicting Drug Sensitivity in TP53-Mutated Cancer via Quantum Boltzman Machines View Paper
Vasile Vancea
13:10 - 13:30
Parallel String Matching on GPU: An Evaluation of KMP, Boyer–Moore, and BWT with CUDA View Paper
Mihai-Bogdan Petre
Marius-Sabin Tabirca

CV: Special session: Automated Driving 2
Friday, October 17, 11:50 - 13:30
Ball room

11:50 - 12:10
Check DTC On Message Event for Automotive Industry Using CAN Protocol View Paper
Florian Krech
12:10 - 12:30
CAPSD: Confidence-Aware Promptable Segmentation Distillation for Small Dataset Transformer-Based Models View Paper
Andreea-Maria Onaci
Mihai Negru

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
12:30 - 12:50
L-Shape Bounding Box Detector for LiDAR Point-Clouds View Paper
Vlad Lazar
Robert Varga

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
12:50 - 13:10
Semantic Segmentation from Object Detection using Foundation Models View Paper
Alex Schiau
Vivian Chiciudean
Florin Oniga
Sergiu Nedevschi

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
13:10 - 13:30
LiWXAI, Interpretable and Efficient LiDAR-based Weather Condition Detection and Identification using GLCM and AI-based Methodology View Paper
Alexandre Jacquemart
Sio-Song Ieng
Mokrane Hadj-Bachir
Dominique Gruyer




Friday, October 17, 11:50 - 13:30
Beijing room (5th floor)

11:50 - 12:10
Multimodal Learning with Augmentation Techniques for Natural Disaster Assessment View Paper
Adrian-Dinu Urse
Dumitru-Clementin Cercel
Florin Pop




National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI), Bucharest, RO
12:10 - 12:30
A Semi-Automated System for Face Registration and Recognition in Video Streams View Paper
Laurențiu Neghină
Raluca Didona Brehar

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
12:30 - 12:50
Face Recognition System using Fully Homomorphic Encryption View Paper
Talida Dirnu
Vlad-Cristian Miclea

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
12:50 - 13:10
To Flash or Not To Flash: A Case Study on Vine Foliar Disease Detection View Paper
Robert Konievici
Barna Keresztes
Levente Tamas


13:10 - 13:30
ContrastRelevance: Supervised Contrastive Learning and Binary Relevance for Imbalanced Multi Label Classification View Paper
Iulia-Maria Rus
Raluca Portase
Rodica Potolea
Mihaela Dinsoreanu
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO


Friday, October 17, 14:40 - 16:20
Venezia room (5th floor)

14:40 - 15:00
Fine-Tuning HateBERT for Hateful Speech Classification View Paper
Victor Andrei Căbulea
Marian Flămînzanu-Mateiuc
Stefan Daniel Achirei


15:00 - 15:20
HarmLLaMA: Harmful Language Detection with Large Language Models View Paper
Ciprian-Octavian Truică
Elena-Simona Apostol
Alexandru-Gabriel Ilie
Adrian Paschke
National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO

15:20 - 15:40
A Comparative Survey of Social Bias in Text and Image Generation: Gaps, Directions and Compliance with the EU AI Act View Paper
Andrei-Cristian Rad
Camelia Lemnaru

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
15:40 - 16:00
From Documents to Data: Integrated Generation and Management of EHRs in a Web-Based Medical Platform with AI support View Paper
Alexandru Predescu
Mariana Mocanu
Adina Magda Florea
National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
16:00 - 16:20
Speaker Anonymization via GAN-driven Artificial Embeddings and Prosody Transfer View Paper
Dumitru-Cosmin Melinte
Mircea Giurgiu

CV: Medical Image Processing
Friday, October 17, 14:40 - 16:20
Ball room

14:40 - 15:00
Automatic Multi-Class Segmentation and Landmark-Based Osteotomy Planning for Hip Arthroplasty View Paper
Ioana Teodora Spinciu
Ștefana Duță
Corina-Elena Petean
Alina Elena Sultana
Eduard Liciu
Doru-Daniel Cristea





15:00 - 15:20
Automatic Scoliosis Assessment via Cobb Angle Estimation using I-MedSAM-Based Instance Segmentation View Paper
Daria-Eugenia Mihaila
Raluca Didona Brehar

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
15:20 - 15:40
Withdrawal time estimation per anatomical region in colonoscopy videos View Paper
Florin Dumitrescu
Maria-Andreea Tudosie
Mihai Trăscău


National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
15:40 - 16:00
Segmentation of the Retinal Vascular Network and Biomarker Quantification in OCTA Imaging View Paper
Darius Iulian Stan
Mihnea Bogdan Jurcă
Raluca Didona Brehar


Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
16:00 - 16:20
Inception_RetNet: Pioneering Diabetic Retinopathy Detection with Dual Attention Innovation View Paper
Iulia Oltean
Tiberiu Marita

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO


Friday, October 17, 14:40 - 16:20
Beijing room (5th floor)

14:40 - 15:00
Fault Tolerant 3D Reconstruction using Fusion of Complementary Depth Estimation Approaches View Paper
Mircea Paul Muresan
Sergiu Nedevschi
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
15:00 - 15:20
Faint satellite streak detection using the raw output of a YOLO-type object detector View Paper
Attila Füzes
Zsombor Somai
Lara Taraș-Zinveliu
Răzvan Itu
Vlad Turcu
Radu Dănescu
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO


Technical University of Cluj Napoca, RO

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
15:20 - 15:40
Adapting Multi-Modal Transformers for Crop Yield Prediction in Data-Scarce Regions: A Case Study for Romania View Paper
Ștefania Iuga
Andrei Bulzan
Cosmin Cernăzanu-Glăvan


15:40 - 16:00
Enhancing Mask R-CNN to Improve Camouflaged Object Detection View Paper
Maria Zubașcu
Cristian-Cosmin Vancea

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
16:00 - 16:20
Real-Time Distributed Multi-Threaded Vision System for Traffic Surveillance with Dynamic Calibration and CNN-Based Detection View Paper
Sergiu-Ionut Cionte
Dragos-Florin Lisman


Friday, October 17, 16:40 - 18:20
Venezia room (5th floor)

16:40 - 17:00
Subword Tokenization for Agglutinative Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Crimean Tatar View Paper
Enghin Omer
Mariana Mocanu

National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
17:00 - 17:20
Knowledge Graph Integration in Natural Language Processing for the Smart Cooking Domain View Paper
Vlad Vadean
Vlad Andrei Negru
Camelia Lemnaru
Rodica Potolea


Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
17:20 - 17:40
Comparative Analysis of LSTM Models and Large Language Models for Stock Trend Forecasting with Sentiment Analysis and Google Trends View Paper
Razvan Andrei Moga
17:40 - 18:00
Adverse Event Detection in medical documents - Non-Pharmaceutical Substances View Paper
Luminita Marghescu
Rodica Potolea

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
18:00 - 18:20
Specialized Information Retrieval with Improved Reliability via LLM Finetuning View Paper
George Catalin Robotin
Radu Razvan Slavescu

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

CV: Special session: Automated Driving 3
Friday, October 17, 16:40 - 18:20
Ball room

16:40 - 17:00
Transferability of software update requirements from the automotive industry to fire alarm systems: A case study View Paper
Ulrich Rabe
Jörg Wollert

FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, DE
17:00 - 17:20
Semantic Reconstruction and Infrared Anomaly Detection in ADAS Perception Systems View Paper
Timotei-Cristian Morar
Vlad-Cristian Miclea

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
17:20 - 17:40
VISION-RISK: Vision-Language Model for Risk Assessment in Explainable Autonomous Driving Systems View Paper
Andrei Bogdan Constantin
Vlad Negru
Camelia Lemnaru
Rodica Potolea


Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
17:40 - 18:00
Reliability of the post training-quantized vision models - a conformal prediction study View Paper
Calin Timbus
Camelia Lemnaru

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
18:00 - 18:20
Predicting Lap Times in Formula 1 : A Deep Learning Approach Using LSTM Networks View Paper
Muhammed Faruk Kara
Ayhan Küçükmanisa


Friday, October 17, 16:40 - 18:00
Beijing room (5th floor)

16:40 - 17:00
Energy Foresight: Predicting Daily Demand with Combined Technique View Paper
Elena Hadarau
Raluca Laura Portase
Rodica Potolea

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
17:00 - 17:20
Privacy Preservation Techniques with Federated Learning in IoT Context View Paper
Codruta Maria Serban
Gheorghe Sebestyen
Anca Hangan

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
17:20 - 17:40
Distributed Optimization Mechanism for Increasing Renewables Penetration Rate in Energy Communities View Paper
Adrian-Marian Schiop
Dan Mitrea
Tudor Cioara

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
17:40 - 18:00
A Blockchain-based Framework for Microgrids Energy Trading Using Greedy Mechanisms View Paper
Iulia-Olivia Cipleu
Viorica Rozina Chifu
Cristina Bianca Pop
Ionut Anghel
Cioara Tudor

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO


Saturday, October 18, 09:00 - 10:40
Venezia room (5th floor)

09:00 - 09:20
CTF-PWN100: Automated Binary Exploitation of CTF Challenges Leveraging Large Language Models View Paper
Tudor Cristea
Radu-Marian Portase
Adrian Colesa

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Bitdefender, RO
09:20 - 09:40
Software Composition Analysis on Rust Binaries View Paper
Denisa Muntean
Ciprian Oprisa

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Bitdefender, RO
09:40 - 10:00
Rootalyx: Stealthy Dynamic Analysis for Linux Malware using Kernel-Level Instrumentation and a Hybrid LSTM-Transformer Model View Paper
Doru Leșe
Andrei Sântoma
Ciprian Oprișa


Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Bitdefender, RO
10:00 - 10:20
ArA - Evaluating LLM Suitability as Out-of-the-Box Malware Analysts View Paper
Gabriel-Cătălin Raț
Andrei Popoviciu
Radu-Marian Portase
Adrian Coleșa


Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
10:20 - 10:40
Detecting Active Operating System Fingerprinting Attempts Using Machine Learning View Paper
Ioan Pădurean
Bela Genge

George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, RO


Saturday, October 18, 09:00 - 10:40
Beijing room (5th floor)

09:00 - 09:20
Consensus Line Formations in Non-Holonomic Multi-Robot Systems Enabled by Decentralized Approximate MST View Paper
Dan Novischi
Adina Magda Florea

National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest, RO
09:20 - 09:40
GPU-based Parallel Collision Detection for AGV Path Planning View Paper
Annalisa Panicieri
Ernesto Fontana
Dario Lodi Rizzini
Stefano Caselli



09:40 - 10:00
AI-Based Anatomical Landmark Recognition for Robot-Assisted Dynamic Dental Implant Surgery View Paper
Paul Tucan
Mihaela Hedesiu
Vasile Bulbucan
Rares Mocan
Daria Pisla
Calin Vaida
Bogdan Gherman
Cristian Dinu
Doina Pisla








10:00 - 10:20
Crowd density estimation using Bluetooth Low Energy for improved robot guidance in expositional spaces View Paper
Ana Rednic
Radu Danescu
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
10:20 - 10:40
Task-Aware Multi-Robot Navigation with RRT and Ant Colony Optimization in ROS2 View Paper
Vlad Matei Draghici


Saturday, October 18, 11:00 - 12:20
Venezia room (5th floor)

11:00 - 11:20
Semantic Compression and Conceptual Symbolic Reasoning over Transformer Embeddings for Interpretable Crime News Classification View Paper
Tayyab Rehman
Giovanni De Gasperis
Asif Saeed
Shahid Salim



11:20 - 11:40
CS-ECC: Chaotic S-box based Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem View Paper
Ionuț-Eduard Matei
11:40 - 12:00
From Opcodes to Semantics: A Hybrid Approach for Function Name Inference in Stripped Binaries View Paper
Remus Petrache
Camelia Lemnaru
Ciprian Oprisa

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Bitdefender, RO
12:00 - 12:20
Invisible Image Watermarking through the use of Concentric High-Frequency Bands in the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) Domain View Paper
Victor A. Toporan
Mihai V. Micea

Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

CV: Medical Image Processing
Saturday, October 18, 11:00 - 12:00
Beijing room (5th floor)

11:00 - 11:20
Architectural Enhancements to YOLOv12 for Improving Detection of Thoracic Pathologies in Chest X-rays View Paper
Ruxandra Andro
Cristian-Cosmin Vancea

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
11:20 - 11:40
Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Human Movement Assessment in Physical Rehabilitation View Paper
Camelia Lazar
Crina Grosan
Maria-Iuliana Bocicor


11:40 - 12:00
Automatic Segmentation of Orbital Walls View Paper
Ioana Tofan
Fabian-Andrei Stoica
Stefana Duta
Alina Elena Sultana
Mihail-Theodor Dragomir
Eduard Liciu