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 | |
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 | |
Flavia Costi
Emanuel Covaci Ovidiu Roman Darian Onchis Codruta Istin |
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10:30 - 10:50 | |
A comparative analysis of time-frequency transforms as feature extraction for spike sorting | |
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 | |
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 | |
Catalin Aurelian Popa
Radu Dogaru |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Tudor-George Goian
Marius-George Marcu |
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10:50 - 11:10 | |
Gaze Tracking via L2CS-Net Pipeline with Ridge Regression and Kalman Post-filtering | |
Ioana-Maeva Carbunescu-Stoenescu
Mircea Giurgiu |
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11:10 - 11:30 | |
Region-Aware Token Aggregation for Fine-Grained Change Detection | |
Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga
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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 | |
Diana-Nicoleta Zaha
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10:10 - 10:30 | |
A System for Logic Circuits Interpretation from Hand-Drawn Diagrams | |
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 | |
Alecsandra Rusu
Marius Neag Marina Țopa |
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10:50 - 11:10 | |
Augmenting Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in PET Bottle Manufacturing Data | |
Radu Sorostinean
Catalina Neghina Arpad Gellert |
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11:10 - 11:30 | |
Detecting Anomalies in Distributed RPC Traffic with Isolation Forests | |
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 | |
Florin Leon
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Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, RO |
12:10 - 12:30 | |
Towards Modeling Semiconductor Laser Systems via Deep Learning: A Preliminary Study | |
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 | |
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 | |
Vasile Vancea
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13:10 - 13:30 | |
Parallel String Matching on GPU: An Evaluation of KMP, Boyer–Moore, and BWT with CUDA | |
Mihai-Bogdan Petre
Marius-Sabin Tabirca |
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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 | |
Florian Krech
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12:10 - 12:30 | |
CAPSD: Confidence-Aware Promptable Segmentation Distillation for Small Dataset Transformer-Based Models | |
Andreea-Maria Onaci
Mihai Negru |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO |
12:30 - 12:50 | |
L-Shape Bounding Box Detector for LiDAR Point-Clouds | |
Vlad Lazar
Robert Varga |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO |
12:50 - 13:10 | |
Semantic Segmentation from Object Detection using Foundation Models | |
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 | |
Alexandre Jacquemart
Sio-Song Ieng Mokrane Hadj-Bachir Dominique Gruyer |
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Friday, October 17, 11:50 - 13:30
Beijing room (5th floor)
11:50 - 12:10 | |
Multimodal Learning with Augmentation Techniques for Natural Disaster Assessment | |
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 | |
Laurențiu Neghină
Raluca Didona Brehar |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO |
12:30 - 12:50 | |
Face Recognition System using Fully Homomorphic Encryption | |
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 | |
Robert Konievici
Barna Keresztes Levente Tamas |
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13:10 - 13:30 | |
ContrastRelevance: Supervised Contrastive Learning and Binary Relevance for Imbalanced Multi Label Classification | |
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 | |
Victor Andrei Căbulea
Marian Flămînzanu-Mateiuc Stefan Daniel Achirei |
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15:00 - 15:20 | |
HarmLLaMA: Harmful Language Detection with Large Language Models | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Dumitru-Cosmin Melinte
Mircea Giurgiu |
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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 | |
Ioana Teodora Spinciu
Ștefana Duță Corina-Elena Petean Alina Elena Sultana Eduard Liciu Doru-Daniel Cristea |
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15:00 - 15:20 | |
Automatic Scoliosis Assessment via Cobb Angle Estimation using I-MedSAM-Based Instance Segmentation | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Ștefania Iuga
Andrei Bulzan Cosmin Cernăzanu-Glăvan |
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15:40 - 16:00 | |
Enhancing Mask R-CNN to Improve Camouflaged Object Detection | |
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 | |
Sergiu-Ionut Cionte
Dragos-Florin Lisman |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Razvan Andrei Moga
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17:40 - 18:00 | |
Adverse Event Detection in medical documents - Non-Pharmaceutical Substances | |
Luminita Marghescu
Rodica Potolea |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO |
18:00 - 18:20 | |
Specialized Information Retrieval with Improved Reliability via LLM Finetuning | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Muhammed Faruk Kara
Ayhan Küçükmanisa |
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Friday, October 17, 16:40 - 18:00
Beijing room (5th floor)
16:40 - 17:00 | |
Energy Foresight: Predicting Daily Demand with Combined Technique | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Annalisa Panicieri
Ernesto Fontana Dario Lodi Rizzini Stefano Caselli |
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09:40 - 10:00 | |
AI-Based Anatomical Landmark Recognition for Robot-Assisted Dynamic Dental Implant Surgery | |
Paul Tucan
Mihaela Hedesiu Vasile Bulbucan Rares Mocan Daria Pisla Calin Vaida Bogdan Gherman Cristian Dinu Doina Pisla |
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10:00 - 10:20 | |
Crowd density estimation using Bluetooth Low Energy for improved robot guidance in expositional spaces | |
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 | |
Vlad Matei Draghici
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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 | |
Tayyab Rehman
Giovanni De Gasperis Asif Saeed Shahid Salim |
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11:20 - 11:40 | |
CS-ECC: Chaotic S-box based Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem | |
Ionuț-Eduard Matei
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11:40 - 12:00 | |
From Opcodes to Semantics: A Hybrid Approach for Function Name Inference in Stripped Binaries | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Camelia Lazar
Crina Grosan Maria-Iuliana Bocicor |
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11:40 - 12:00 | |
Automatic Segmentation of Orbital Walls | |
Ioana Tofan
Fabian-Andrei Stoica Stefana Duta Alina Elena Sultana Mihail-Theodor Dragomir Eduard Liciu |
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