Perception that reads the world
Robust 2D, 3D, panoramic, and multimodal scene understanding for complex real-world environments.
Research
Research architecture
From perception to action, from autonomy to assistance.
InSAI studies intelligent systems that can sense, understand, navigate, and support people in the physical world. The work spans computer vision, robotics, transportation, multimodal learning, and accessible interaction.
Agents that move with people
Embodied intelligence, co-navigation, instruction following, and safe human-AI collaboration.
Autonomy under uncertainty
Sensor fusion, semantic mapping, and resilient decision-making for vehicles and robotic systems.
Accessibility by design
Assistive interfaces, wearable systems, document accessibility, and inclusive human-computer interaction.
Events
AAA Workshop
The Assistive Agents for All workshop solicits research that explores AI agents supporting people in everyday life - particular, research that empowers users while preserving agency, safety, privacy, accessibility, fairness, and accountability. Please check our workshop webpage at: https://insailab.org/ubicomp2026-aaa-workshop/.
iCARE Workshop
The 1st iCARE workshop @CoRL2025 will provide a half-day session (poster, oral, invited talks) to integrate insights from assistive technology and cobodied AI into the robotics and learning community. Please check our workshop webpage at: https://insailab.org/icare/.
BSL workshop @ IV 2021
The workshop "Beyond Supervised Learning: addressing data scarcity in Intelligent Transportation Systems" brings together autonomous driving and computer vision researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Please check our workshop webpage at: https://sites.google.com/view/iv2022-bsl-workshop.
Projects
On-going projects
- 2026-2029, Hunan Province Key Research and Development Program
- 2025-2028, NSFC Young Scientists Fund
- 2025-2028, Hunan Furong Program
- 2022-2027, PoF IV Project, funded by the Helmholtz Association of Germany
- 2022-2027, KATE Project, funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wurttemberg (MWK)
Completed projects
- 2020-2023, AccessibleMaps Project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
- 2020-2022, KIT Future Fields - Vision4Blind Project, funded by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)