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"You've got a friend in me": Co-Designing a Peer Social Robot for Young Newcomers' Language and Cultural Learning

Neil Fernandes, Cheng Tang, Tehniyat Shahbaz, Alex Hauschildt, Emily Davies-Robinson, Yue Hu, Kerstin Dautenhahn ยท 2026

Community literacy programs supporting young newcomer children in Canada face limited staffing and scarce one-to-one time, which constrains personalized English and cultural learning support. This papโ€ฆ

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Towards Flexible Spectrum Access: Data-Driven Insights into Spectrum Demand

Mohamad Alkadamani, Amir Ghasemi, Halim Yanikomeroglu ยท 2026

In the diverse landscape of 6G networks, where wireless connectivity demands surge and spectrum resources remain limited, flexible spectrum access becomes paramount. The success of crafting such schemโ€ฆ

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Cost and Complexity as Barriers to RTLS Adoption in SMEs: A Survey and Analysis

Peyman Moeini, Mark Coates ยท 2025

Real-time location systems (RTLSs) are central to Industry 4.0 and emerging Industry 5.0, providing the spatiotemporal data required for asset tracking, workflow optimization, safety, and integration โ€ฆ

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Connectivity-Aware Task Offloading for Remote Northern Regions: a Hybrid LEO-MEO Architecture

Mohammed Almekhlafi, Antoine Lesage-Landry, Gunes Karabulut Kurt ยท 2025

Arctic regions, such as northern Canada, face significant challenges in achieving consistent connectivity and low-latency computing services due to the sparse coverage of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satelliโ€ฆ

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$\rm{A}^{\rm{SAR}}$: $\varepsilon$-Optimal Graph Search for Minimum Expected-Detection-Time Paths with Path Budget Constraints for Search and Rescue (SAR)

Eric Mugford, Jonathan D. Gammell ยท 2025

Searches are conducted to find missing persons and/or objects given uncertain information, imperfect observers and large search areas in Search and Rescue (SAR). In many scenarios, such as Maritime SAโ€ฆ

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Multi-Representation Attention Framework for Underwater Bioacoustic Denoising and Recognition

Amine Razig, Youssef Soulaymani, Loubna Benabbou, Pierre Cauchy ยท 2025

Automated monitoring of marine mammals in the St. Lawrence Estuary faces extreme challenges: calls span low-frequency moans to ultrasonic clicks, often overlap, and are embedded in variable anthropogeโ€ฆ

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Competitive EV charging station location with queues

The Minh Nguyen, Nagisa Sugishita, Margarida Carvalho, Amira Dems ยท 2025

Electric vehicle (EV) public charging infrastructure planning faces significant challenges in competitive markets, where multiple service providers affect congestion and user behavior. This work extenโ€ฆ

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Benchmarking Large Pretrained Multilingual Models on Qu\'ebec French Speech Recognition

Coralie Serrand, Gilles Boulianne, Amira Morsli ยท 2025

We evaluate the performance of large pretrained multilingual speech recognition models on a regional variety of French spoken in Qu\'ebec, Canada, in terms of speed, word error rate and semantic accurโ€ฆ

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From Canada to Japan: How 10,000 km Affect User Perception in Robot Teleoperation

Simeon Capy, Thomas M. Kwok, Kevin Joseph, Yuichiro Kawasumi, Koichi Nagashima, Tomoya Sasaki, Yue Hu, Eiichi Yoshida ยท 2025

Robot teleoperation (RTo) has emerged as a viable alternative to local control, particularly when human intervention is still necessary. This research aims to study the distance effect on user perceptโ€ฆ

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LangMamba: A Language-driven Mamba Framework for Low-dose CT Denoising with Vision-language Models

Zhihao Chen, Tao Chen, Chenhui Wang, Qi Gao, Huidong Xie, Chuang Niu, Ge Wang, Hongming Shan ยท 2025

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but often degrades image quality, potentially compromising diagnostic accuracy. Existing deep learning-based denoising methods focus primโ€ฆ

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Deep Feed-Forward Neural Network for Bangla Isolated Speech Recognition

Dipayan Bhadra, Mehrab Hosain, Fatema Alam ยท 2025

As the most important human-machine interfacing tool, an insignificant amount of work has been carried out on Bangla Speech Recognition compared to the English language. Motivated by this, in this worโ€ฆ

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DriveSOTIF: Advancing Perception SOTIF Through Multimodal Large Language Models

Shucheng Huang, Freda Shi, Chen Sun, Jiaming Zhong, Minghao Ning, Yufeng Yang, Yukun Lu, Hong Wang, Amir Khajepour ยท 2025

Human drivers possess spatial and causal intelligence, enabling them to perceive driving scenarios, anticipate hazards, and react to dynamic environments. In contrast, autonomous vehicles lack these aโ€ฆ

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Estimating Rural Path Loss with ITU-R P.1812-7 : Impact of Geospatial Inputs

Mathieu Chateauvert, Jonathan Ethier, Adrian Florea ยท 2025

Accurate radio wave propagation modeling is essential for effective spectrum management by regulators and network deployment by operators. This paper investigates the ITU-R P.1812-7 (P.1812) propagatiโ€ฆ

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Automotive Speed Estimation: Sensor Types and Error Characteristics from OBD-II to ADAS

Hany Ragab, Sidney Givigi, Aboelmagd Noureldin ยท 2024

Modern on-road navigation systems heavily depend on integrating speed measurements with inertial navigation systems (INS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Telemetry-based applications tโ€ฆ

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Efficient Self-Supervised Barlow Twins from Limited Tissue Slide Cohorts for Colonic Pathology Diagnostics

Cassandre Notton, Vasudev Sharma, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Lina Chen, Minqi Xu, Sonal Varma, Mahdi S. Hosseini ยท 2024

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the few cancers that have an established dysplasia-carcinoma sequence that benefits from screening. Everyone over 50 years of age in Canada is eligible for CRC screenโ€ฆ

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SALINA: Towards Sustainable Live Sonar Analytics in Wild Ecosystems

Chi Xu, Rongsheng Qian, Hao Fang, Xiaoqiang Ma, William I. Atlas, Jiangchuan Liu, Mark A. Spoljaric ยท 2024

Sonar radar captures visual representations of underwater objects and structures using sound wave reflections, making it essential for exploration, mapping, and continuous surveillance in wild ecosystโ€ฆ

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Federated Diabetes Prediction in Canadian Adults Using Real-world Cross-Province Primary Care Data

Guojun Tang, Jason E. Black, Tyler S. Williamson, Steve H. Drew ยท 2024

Integrating Electronic Health Records (EHR) and the application of machine learning present opportunities for enhancing the accuracy and accessibility of data-driven diabetes prediction. In particularโ€ฆ

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A semi-centralized multi-agent RL framework for efficient irrigation scheduling

Bernard T. Agyeman, Benjamin Decard-Nelson, Jinfeng Liu (University of Alberta), Sirish L. Shah ยท 2024

This paper proposes a Semi-Centralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (SCMARL) approach for irrigation scheduling in spatially variable agricultural fields, where management zones address spatial โ€ฆ

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UrBAN: Urban Beehive Acoustics and PheNotyping Dataset

Mahsa Abdollahi, Yi Zhu, Heitor R. Guimaraes, Nico Coallier, Segolene Maucourt, Pierre Giovenazzo, Tiago H. Falk ยท 2024

In this paper, we present a multimodal dataset obtained from a honey bee colony in Montr\'eal, Quebec, Canada, spanning the years of 2021 to 2022. This apiary comprised 10 beehives, with microphones rโ€ฆ

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Federated Learning and Differential Privacy Techniques on Multi-hospital Population-scale Electrocardiogram Data

Vikhyat Agrawal, Sunil Vasu Kalmady, Venkataseetharam Manoj Malipeddi, Manisimha Varma Manthena, Weijie Sun, Saiful Islam, Abram Hindle, Padma Kaul, Russell Greiner ยท 2024

This research paper explores ways to apply Federated Learning (FL) and Differential Privacy (DP) techniques to population-scale Electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The study learns a multi-label ECG classifโ€ฆ

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