Advances in AI, Data Science and Digital Twin 2026

Innovation and social implementation of AI, data science and digital twins are advancing rapidly in wide range of fields including infrastructure, disaster, cities, environment, transportation, energy, etc.  Papers from research and development, education, to practices in the related areas are presented and discussed in this symposium.  

Organized by: Editorial Committee of Intelligence, Informatics and Infrastructure
Cooperated by: JSCE International Student Network Group and International Civil Engineers Group.  

Symposium Date: June 2 (Tue.), 2026
Registration Deadline: May 27(Wed.), 2026
Location: JSCE Headquarter (Conference Room CD) and online
Concurrently with JSCE Digital Twin & DX Symposium 2026.

Register from the following site.  
On-site: participation at JSCE Headquarter
Online: participation by web
Speakers: presentations can be made either from on-site or online
Registration fee: free
By registering this symposium, you can also attend JSCE Digital Twin & DX Symposium 2026.

The papers will be published in Intelligence, Informatics and Infrastructure, and associated data are uploaded to J-STAGE Data if available.   

Twelve minutes of presentation and three minutes of discussion are assigned for each paper.  

Please copy your presentation file (PPTX etc.) to the PC in the venue 5 minutes before the starting of your session.

If you like to present by using your own laptop or present online, please

1, connect to zoom

2, change your name to the format of "[Presenter]_Your Name"and

3, share your desktop to present your research following the guidance of the chair of your session.

Contact: Office of Editorial Committee
E-mail：aisymposium@jsce.or.jp

Program

9:40  Opening    Makoto Kimura (Director of JSCE International Center, Bond Engineering)

9:45-10:45 Infrastructure Management    Chair Kohei Nagai (Hokkaido University)
- Reconstruction of historical pavement condition records using temporal transfer learning under non-random missing data  Angela Odera, Michael Henry  
- Application of sequential pattern mining to understanding the maintenance intervention trends of federal highways in Ethiopia  Ehitabezahu N. Mekonnen, Michael Henry
-Performance Comparison of Raveling Severity Classification under Different Data Augmentation Strategies  Hidayat Ullah, Azam Amir, Michael Henry
- Semi-automated Defect Extraction and Data Platform Integration for Tunnel Maintenance Using Point Cloud Data  Anneta Trissha, Yasuhiro Mitani, Hiroyuki Honda, Kohei Kawano, Sotaro Kimura, Gakuji Yamamoto, Yasuaki Narita

14:05-14:50  Object Detection    Chair Ji Dang (Saitama University) 
- Automated Pile Inspection using Segment Anything Model  Shijun PAN, Shujia QIN, Li WANG, Zheng YANG, Qiuyuan CUI
- Large-scale point cloud processing for tree segmentation and structural analysis using high-performance computing cluster  Kenta Itakura, Seishiro Taki, Hiroyuki Matsushita, Yosuke Ikeda, Chiaki Tsutsumi, Zhao Chen, Yu Obata, Keishu Aruga, Ryosuke Nakamura
- Evaluation of Multiple Optimized AIGC Approaches in Low-Altitude Drone-based Riparian Waste Monitoring  Shijun PAN, Keisuke YOSHIDA, Shujia QIN, Takashi KOJIMA, Satoshi NISHIYAMA

15:00-15:45  Future Mobility    Chair Michael Henry (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
- A Comparative Review of the Technological and Social Factors Affecting the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles in Developed and Developing Countries  Muhammad Shan Khalid, Azam Amir, Michael Henry
- A Multi-sector Analysis of Current and Future Synergy of AI and Drones for Tunisia  Sahar Shaiek, Shijun Pan
- The Belt and Road Initiative as a Catalyst for AI-based Agri-Engineering Applications of UAV in China, Japan, Bangladesh, and Tunisia  Shijun Pan, Keisuke Yoshida, Oumayma Shaiek, Anass Barrahmoune, Satoshi Nishiyama

15:45  Closing    Ji Dang (Secretary General of Editorial Committee, Saitama University)