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Explainable AI in Speaker Recognition -- Making Latent Representations Understandable

Yanze Xu, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley ยท 2026

Neural networks can be trained to learn task-relevant representations from data. Understanding how these networks make decisions falls within the Explainable AI (XAI) domain. This paper proposes to stโ€ฆ

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MRI-to-CT synthesis using drifting models

Qing Lyu, Jianxu Wang, Jeremy Hudson, Ge Wang, Chirstopher T. Whitlow ยท 2026

Accurate MRI-to-CT synthesis could enable MR-only pelvic workflows by providing CT-like images with bone details while avoiding additional ionizing radiation. In this work, we investigate recently proโ€ฆ

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Heart Artifact Removal in Electrohysterography Measurements Using Algebraic Differentiators

Amine Othmane, Maria Camila Bustos Vivas, Johannes Steuer, Jana Hutter ยท 2026

Electrohysterography (EHG) enables non-invasive monitoring of uterine contractions but can be contaminated by electrocardiogram (ECG) artifacts. This work presents an ECG removal method using algebraiโ€ฆ

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MOS-Bias: From Hidden Gender Bias to Gender-Aware Speech Quality Assessment

Wenze Ren, Yi-Cheng Lin, Wen-Chin Huang, Erica Cooper, Ryandhimas E. Zezario, Hsin-Min Wang, Hung-yi Lee, Yu Tsao ยท 2026

The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) serves as the standard metric for speech quality assessment, yet biases in human annotations remain underexplored. We conduct the first systematic analysis of gender bias โ€ฆ

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Kidney Ultrasound: Spatial-Efficient Volumetric Imaging via Template Guided Optimal Pivoting

Xihan Ma, Haichong Zhang ยท 2026

Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is a frontline tool for the diagnosis of kidney diseases. However, traditional freehand imaging procedure suffers from inconsistent, operator-dependent outcomes, lack oโ€ฆ

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A Decade of Human-Robot Interaction Through Immersive Lenses: Reviewing Extended Reality as a Research Instrument in Social Robotics

Andre Helgert, Carolin Stra{ss}mann, Sabrina C. Eimler ยท 2026

Over the past decade, Extended Reality (XR), including Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality, gained attention as a research instrument in human-robot interaction studies, but remains underexplored inโ€ฆ

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GuideTouch: An Obstacle Avoidance Device with Tactile Feedback for Visually Impaired

Timofei Kozlov, Artem Trandofilov, Georgii Gazaryan, Issatay Tokmurziyev, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

Safe navigation for the visually impaired individuals remains a critical challenge, especially concerning head-level obstacles, which traditional mobility aids often fail to detect. We introduce Guideโ€ฆ

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A Sequential Hermaphrodite Coupling Mechanism for Lattice-based Modular Robots

Keigo Torii, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, Kazuya Yoshida ยท 2025

Lattice-based modular robot systems are envisioned for large-scale construction in extreme environments, such as space. Coupling mechanisms for heterogeneous structural modules should meet all of the โ€ฆ

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Gradient-Informed Monte Carlo Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models for Low-Thrust Trajectory Design

Jannik Graebner, Ryne Beeson ยท 2025

Preliminary mission design of low-thrust spacecraft trajectories in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem is a global search characterized by a complex objective landscape and numerous local miniโ€ฆ

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Open-Ended Goal Inference through Actions and Language for Human-Robot Collaboration

Debasmita Ghose, Oz Gitelson, Marynel Vazquez, Brian Scassellati ยท 2025

To collaborate with humans, robots must infer goals that are often ambiguous, difficult to articulate, or not drawn from a fixed set. Prior approaches restrict inference to a predefined goal set, relyโ€ฆ

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RL-100: Performant Robotic Manipulation with Real-World Reinforcement Learning

Kun Lei, Huanyu Li, Dongjie Yu, Zhenyu Wei, Lingxiao Guo, Zhennan Jiang, Ziyu Wang, Shiyu Liang, Huazhe Xu ยท 2025

Real-world robotic manipulation in homes and factories demands reliability, efficiency, and robustness that approach or surpass those of skilled human operators. We present RL-100, a real-world reinfoโ€ฆ

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Curriculum Learning with Synthetic Data for Enhanced Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Chest Radiographs

Pranav Sambhu, Om Guin, Madhav Sambhu, Jinho Cha ยท 2025

This study evaluates whether integrating curriculum learning with diffusion-based synthetic augmentation can enhance the detection of difficult pulmonary nodules in chest radiographs, particularly thoโ€ฆ

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When Voice Matters: Evidence of Gender Disparity in Positional Bias of SpeechLLMs

Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Gustav Eje Henter, Eva Szekely ยท 2025

The rapid development of SpeechLLM-based conversational AI systems has created a need for robustly benchmarking these efforts, including aspects of fairness and bias. At present, such benchmarks typicโ€ฆ

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Speak Your Mind: The Speech Continuation Task as a Probe of Voice-Based Model Bias

Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Harm Lameris, Olivier Perrotin, Gustav Eje Henter, Eva Szekely ยท 2025

Speech Continuation (SC) is the task of generating a coherent extension of a spoken prompt while preserving both semantic context and speaker identity. Because SC is constrained to a single audio streโ€ฆ

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A Crime/S.I.R. optimal control problem

Mariana Alvarez, Alexander Alegria, Andres Rivera, Sebastian Pedersen ยท 2025

This paper presents and discusses a mathematical model inspired by control theory to derive optimal public policies for minimizing costs associated with the reduction and control of criminal activity โ€ฆ

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BabyHuBERT: Multilingual Self-Supervised Learning for Segmenting Speakers in Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings

Theo Charlot, Tarek Kunze, Maxime Poli, Alejandrina Cristia, Emmanuel Dupoux, Marvin Lavechin ยท 2025

Child-centered daylong recordings are essential for studying early language development, but existing speech models trained on clean adult data perform poorly due to acoustic and linguistic differenceโ€ฆ

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SignLoc: Robust Localization using Navigation Signs and Public Maps

Nicky Zimmerman, Joel Loo, Ayush Agrawal, David Hsu ยท 2025

Navigation signs and maps, such as floor plans and street maps, are widely available and serve as ubiquitous aids for way-finding in human environments. Yet, they are rarely used by robot systems. Thiโ€ฆ

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GraspQP: Differentiable Optimization of Force Closure for Diverse and Robust Dexterous Grasping

Rene Zurbrugg, Andrei Cramariuc, Marco Hutter ยท 2025

Dexterous robotic hands enable versatile interactions due to the flexibility and adaptability of multi-fingered designs, allowing for a wide range of task-specific grasp configurations in diverse enviโ€ฆ

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Overview of Controllability Definitions in Supervisory Control Theory

Jeroen J.A. Keiren, Michel A. Reniers ยท 2025

In the field of supervisory control theory, the literature often proposes different definitions for the same concept, making it difficult to understand how these definitions are related. This is definโ€ฆ

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Summarizing Normative Driving Behavior From Large-Scale NDS Datasets for Vehicle System Development

Gregory Beale, Gibran Ali ยท 2025

This paper presents a methodology to process large-scale naturalistic driving studies (NDS) to describe the driving behavior for five vehicle metrics, including speed, speeding, lane keeping, followinโ€ฆ

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