ICST 2026
Mon 18 - Fri 22 May 2026 Daejeon, South Korea
Tue 19 May 2026 11:25 - 11:50 at Room 101 - Autonomous Systems & Robotics Testing Chair(s): Khouloud Gaaloul

The emergence of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) has spurred research into testing the resilience of their perception systems, i.e., ensuring that they are not susceptible to critical misjudgements. It is important that these systems are tested not only with respect to other vehicles on the road, but also with respect to objects placed on the roadside. Trash bins, billboards, and greenery are examples of such objects, typically positioned according to guidelines developed for the human visual system, which may not align perfectly with the needs of AVs. Existing tests, however, usually focus on adversarial objects with conspicuous shapes or patches, which are ultimately unrealistic due to their unnatural appearance and reliance on white-box knowledge. In this work, we introduce a black-box attack on AV perception systems that creates realistic adversarial scenarios (i.e., satisfying road design guidelines) by manipulating the positions of common roadside objects and without resorting to “unnatural” adversarial patches. In particular, we propose TrashFuzz, a fuzzing algorithm that finds scenarios in which the placement of these objects leads to substantial AV misperceptions — such as mistaking a traffic light’s colour — with the overall goal of causing traffic-law violations. To ensure realism, these scenarios must satisfy several rules encoding regulatory guidelines governing the placement of objects on public streets. We implemented and evaluated these attacks on the Apollo autonomous driving system, finding that TrashFuzz induced violations of 15 out of 24 traffic laws.

Tue 19 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Autonomous Systems & Robotics TestingIndustry / Research Papers at Room 101
Chair(s): Khouloud Gaaloul University of Michigan - Dearborn
11:00
25m
Talk
Dynasto: Validity-Aware Dynamic–Static Parameter Optimization for Autonomous Driving TestingDistinguished Paper AwardArtifact Available
Research Papers
Dmytro Humeniuk Polytechnique Montréal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montreal, Houssem Ben Braiek Polytechnique Montreal, Amel Bennaceur The Open University, UK, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
11:25
25m
Talk
Natural Adversaries: Fuzzing Autonomous Vehicles with Realistic Roadside Object Placements
Research Papers
Yang Sun Singapore Management University, Haoyu Wang School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Chris Poskitt Singapore Management University, Jun Sun Singapore Management University
DOI Pre-print
11:50
15m
Talk
Metamorphic Testing of Vision-Language Action–Enabled RobotsArtifact ReviewedArtifact Available
Research Papers
Pablo Valle Mondragon University, Sergio Segura SCORE Lab, I3US Institute, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Aitor Arrieta Mondragon University
Pre-print
12:05
25m
Talk
Assessing Vision–Language Models for Perception in Autonomous Underwater Robotic Software
Industry
Muhammad Yousaf Simula Research Laboratory, Aitor Arrieta Mondragon University, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics, Shuai Wang DNV AS