Automotive radar has become a key sensing technology for advanced driver-assistance systems and automated driving, benefiting from its robustness in adverse weather and challenging traffic environments. Rapid progress in hardware, signal processing, and perception algorithms is enabling radar systems with higher resolution, improved reliability, and enhanced scene understanding.

This focus session solicits contributions addressing recent advances in automotive radar, spanning system concepts, signal processing techniques, and real-world applications. Topics of interest include high-resolution and imaging radar, multi-antenna and MIMO configurations, interference mitigation, and robust detection and tracking in dense traffic scenarios. The session also welcomes work on radar-based perception, including machine learning approaches and sensor fusion with cameras and LiDAR.

The session aims to provide an overview of current research trends and emerging technologies that will shape the next generation of automotive radar systems.

Session Chairs

Dr. Marc-Michael Meinecke, Volkswagen AG, Germany
Marc-Michael Meinecke studied electrical engineering at Technical University Braunschweig/ Germany and received his Diploma degree in 1997. In his PhD thesis he focused on automotive radar waveform design at Prof. Hermann Rohling’s Institute of Telecommunications (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg).
Since 2001 he is with Volkswagen Group Research in Wolfsburg. His research interests are in the domain of innovative radar technology as well as automated driving for cars and commercial vehicles.
In addition, he works as a lecturer at Ostfalia University in the field of automated driving, perception and telecommunication. He currently serves as a chair for various international conferences.

Dr. Andreas Danklmayer, Fraunhofer FHR, Germany
Andreas Danklmayer received a Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany in 2008. From 2003 – 2011 he was with the Microwaves and Radar Institute Oberpfaffenhofen, of DLR e.V., the German Aerospace Center, where he was involved in projects related to microwave remote sensing and atmospheric effects on airborne and spaceborne SAR and especially on TerraSAR-X. In 2011 he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques
FHR where he was involved in several projects related to the mobility domain including automotive radar.
He was a member of the technical program committee in several conferences and chaired/organised technical session at national and international conferences.
Dr. Danklmayer is a member of the IEEE as well as the German Institute of Navigation (DGON e.V.) where he currently serves as the chair for the committee on Radar techniques.