Expertini Research Research

Browse Research Papers

67+ open-access research outputs.

✕ Clear
🔍 george toderici 📂 Engineering
Showing 67 results for "george toderici" in Engineering
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

MERGE: Guided Vision-Language Models for Multi-Actor Event Reasoning and Grounding in Human-Robot Interaction

Joerg Deigmoeller, Nakul Agarwal, Stephan Hasler, Daniel Tanneberg, Anna Belardinelli, Reza Ghoddoosian, Chao Wang, Felix Ocker, Fan Zhang, Behzad Dariush, Michael Gienger · 2026

We introduce MERGE, a system for situational grounding of actors, objects, and events in dynamic human-robot group interactions. Effective collaboration in such settings requires consistent situationa…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Data-Driven Autoregressive Power Prediction for GTernal Robots in the Robotarium

Yassin Abdelmeguid, Ammar Hasan · 2026

Energy-aware algorithms for multi-robot systems require accurate power consumption models, yet existing approaches rely on kinematic approximations that fail to capture the complex dynamics of real ha…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Evaluating Pretrained General-Purpose Audio Representations for Music Genre Classification

Kashish Rai, Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee · 2026

This study investigates the use of self-supervised learning embeddings, particularly BYOL-A, in conjunction with a deep neural network classifier for Music Genre Classification. Our experiments demons…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

A Framework for Scalable Digital Twin Deployment in Smart Campus Building Facility Management

Thyda Siv · 2025

Digital twin (DT) offers significant opportunities for enhancing facility management (FM) in campus environments. However, existing research often focuses narrowly on isolated domains, such as point-c…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Token Expand-Merge: Training-Free Token Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yifan Ye, Jiaqi Ma, Jun Cen, Zhihe Lu · 2025

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pretrained on large-scale multimodal datasets have emerged as powerful foundations for robotic perception and control. However, their massive scale, often billions …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

A 3D virtual geographic environment for flood representation towards risk communication

Weilian Li, Jun Zhu, Saied Pirasteh, Qing Zhu, Yukun Guo, Lan Luo, Youness Dehbi · 2025

Risk communication seeks to develop a shared understanding of disaster among stakeholders, thereby amplifying public awareness and empowering them to respond more effectively to emergencies. However, …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Z-Merge: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for On-Ramp Merging with Zone-Specific V2X Traffic Information

Yassine Ibork, Myounggyu Won, Lokesh Das · 2025

Ramp merging is a critical and challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in mixed traffic environments with human-driven vehicles (HVs). Existing approaches typically rely on either…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

CardioPHON: Quality assessment and self-supervised pretraining for screening of cardiac function based on phonocardiogram recordings

Vladimir Despotovic, Peter Pocta, Andrej Zgank · 2025

Remote monitoring of cardiovascular diseases plays an essential role in early detection of abnormal cardiac function, enabling timely intervention, improved preventive care, and personalized patient t…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Real-Time Knee Angle Prediction Using EMG and Kinematic Data with an Attention-Based CNN-LSTM Network and Transfer Learning Across Multiple Datasets

Mojtaba Mollahossein, Gholamreza Vossoughi, Mohammad Hossein Rohban · 2025

Electromyography (EMG) signals are widely used for predicting body joint angles through machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods. However, these approaches often face challenges such as li…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

FORGE-Tree: Diffusion-Forcing Tree Search for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

Yanjia Huang, Shuo Liu, Sheng Liu, Qingxiao Xu, Mingyang Wu, Xiangbo Gao, Zhengzhong Tu · 2025

Long-horizon robot manipulation tasks remain challenging for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies due to drift and exposure bias, often denoise the entire trajectory with fixed hyperparameters, causi…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

VisitHGNN: Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Modeling Point-of-Interest Visit Patterns

Lin Pang, Jidong J. Yang · 2025

Understanding how urban residents travel between neighborhoods and destinations is critical for transportation planning, mobility management, and public health. By mining historical origin-to-destinat…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

GENRE-CMR: Generalizable Deep Learning for Diverse Multi-Domain Cardiac MRI Reconstruction

Kian Anvari Hamedani, Narges Razizadeh, Shahabedin Nabavi, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam · 2025

Accelerated Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) image reconstruction remains a critical challenge due to the trade-off between scan time and image quality, particularly when generalizing across di…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

SMART-Merge Planner: A Safe Merging and Real-Time Motion Planner for Autonomous Highway On-Ramp Merging

Toktam Mohammadnejad, Jovin D'sa, Behdad Chalaki, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Ehsan Moradi-Pari · 2025

Merging onto a highway is a complex driving task that requires identifying a safe gap, adjusting speed, often interactions to create a merging gap, and completing the merge maneuver within a limited t…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

xLSTM-ECG: Multi-label ECG Classification via Feature Fusion with xLSTM

Lei Kang, Xuanshuo Fu, Javier Vazquez-Corral, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas · 2025

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, highlighting the critical need for efficient and accurate diagnostic tools. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are indispensable …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Speed Optimization Algorithm based on Deterministic Markov Decision Process for Automated Highway Merge

Takeru Goto, Kosuke Toda, Takayasu Kumano · 2025

This study presents a robust optimization algorithm for automated highway merge. The merging scenario is one of the challenging scenes in automated driving, because it requires adjusting ego vehicle's…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

GeomGS: LiDAR-Guided Geometry-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Robot Localization

Jaewon Lee, Mangyu Kong, Minseong Park, Euntai Kim · 2025

Mapping and localization are crucial problems in robotics and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled precise 3D mapping and scene understanding by rendering p…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

GaussianPU: A Hybrid 2D-3D Upsampling Framework for Enhancing Color Point Clouds via 3D Gaussian Splatting

Zixuan Guo, Yifan Xie, Weijing Xie, Peng Huang, Fei Ma, Fei Richard Yu · 2024

Dense colored point clouds enhance visual perception and are of significant value in various robotic applications. However, existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods are constrained by co…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Enhancing Expressway Ramp Merge Safety and Efficiency via Spatiotemporal Cooperative Control

Ting Peng, Xiaoxue Xu, Yuan Li, Jie WU, Tao Li, Xiang Dong, Yincai Cai, Peng Wu, Sana Ullah · 2024

In the context of autonomous driving on expressways, the issue of ensuring safe and efficient ramp merging remains a significant challenge. Existing systems often struggle to accurately assess the sta…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

FORGE: Force-Guided Exploration for Robust Contact-Rich Manipulation under Uncertainty

Michael Noseworthy, Bingjie Tang, Bowen Wen, Ankur Handa, Chad Kessens, Nicholas Roy, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos, Yashraj Narang, Iretiayo Akinola · 2024

We present FORGE, a method for sim-to-real transfer of force-aware manipulation policies in the presence of significant pose uncertainty. During simulation-based policy learning, FORGE combines a forc…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Spatio-temporal cooperative control Method of Highway Ramp Merge Based on Vehicle-road Coordination

Xiaoxue Xu, Maokai Lai, Haitao Zhang, Xiang Dong, Tao Li, Jie Wu, Yuan Li, Ting Peng · 2024

The merging area of highway ramps faces multiple challenges, including traffic congestion, collision risks, speed mismatches, driver behavior uncertainties, limited visibility, and bottleneck effects.…

Read Paper →
Page 1 of 4 Next →