Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore!

We award the best paper with the SAIAD best Paper Award!

Call for papers

We are soliciting high quality papers covering, but not limited to, the topics listed below. Paper length should be 4 to 8 pages according to the CVPR format.

Papers should follow the standard CVPR formatting instructions. Accepted papers will appear in the CVPR workshop proceedings.

Submission is via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SAIAD2019)


Paper Submission deadline: Extended to March 20, 2019, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)

Author notification: April 1, 2019

Camera ready: April 17, 2019


We follow a high quality review process with a notable programm commitee.


  • Dr. Andreas Wendel, Kodiak Robotics
  • Dr. David Pfeiffer, Zoox Inc.
  • Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, DFKI
  • Prof. Dr. Dieter Hutter, DFKI
  • Prof. Dr. Hanno Gottschalk, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hof, TH Ingolstadt
  • Ignacio Alvarez, Ph.D, Intel
  • Jeff Ota, Intel
  • Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt
  • Mario Fritz, Ph.D, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
  • Dr. Marius Cordts, Daimler AG R&D
  • Dr. Naveen Shankar Naganaja, BMW Group
  • Oliver Scheel, BMW
  • Dr. Peter Pinggera, Daimler AG R&D
  • Qing Rao, Ph.D, BMW Group
  • Senthil Yogamani, Valeo
  • Dr. Shervin Raafatnia, Bosch
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Uni Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS
  • Prof. Dr. Thao Dang, Hochschule Esslingen
  • Xavier Perrotton, Ph.D, Valeo

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) :


  • Interpretable and explainable Deep Neural Networks
  • Safe Deep Neural Network design
  • Approximation of Deep Neural Networks
  • Evaluation of diagnostic techniques
  • Robustness to anomalies
  • Uncertainty modeling
  • Methods for meta classification
  • Transparent DNN training
  • Training Deep Networks
  • Integrating legal requirements
  • Novel evaluation schemes