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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao ยท 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The deโ€ฆ

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LiDAR-based Dynamic Blockage Prediction: A Data-driven Approach for Learning Interactive Bayesian Models

Saleemullah Memon, Ali Krayani, Pamela Zontone, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni ยท 2026

Vehicular sensing-based intelligence has made substantial progress in transportation systems, leading to higher levels of safety and sustainability for smart cities and autonomous systems. This paper โ€ฆ

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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon ยท 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-looโ€ฆ

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A New Location Estimator for Mixed LOS & NLOS scenarios

Gaurav Duggal, Richard M. Buehrer, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey H. Reed ยท 2026

Time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization in mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments is challenging because conventional Euclidean range models do not capture diffraction-doโ€ฆ

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CRLB and Parameter Estimation for OFDM-ISAC with Non-Uniform Sparse Resource Allocation

Wenjie Zhang, Qianglong Dai, Xiaoli Xu, Ruoguang Li, Yong Zeng ยท 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) holds great promise in expanding the applications of wireless communication networks. However, in current communication-centric systems, the time-frequency โ€ฆ

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HiPAN: Hierarchical Posture-Adaptive Navigation for Quadruped Robots in Unstructured 3D Environments

Jeil Jeong, Minsung Yoon, Seokryun Choi, Heechan Shin, Taegeun Yang, Sung-eui Yoon ยท 2026

Navigating quadruped robots in unstructured 3D environments poses significant challenges, requiring goal-directed motion, effective exploration to escape from local minima, and posture adaptation to tโ€ฆ

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Blind OFDM-ISAC Relying on Asymmetric Modem Constellations

Henglin Pu, Ahmad Musallam, Husheng Li, Lajos Hanzo ยท 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is increasingly expected to operate under aggressive spectrum reuse, where co-channel orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) interference can be โ€ฆ

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta ยท 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse coโ€ฆ

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Cross-Linguistic Rhythmic and Spectral Feature-Based Analysis of Nyishi and Adi: Two Under-Resourced Languages of Arunachal Pradesh

Deepshikha Gogoi, Parismita Gogoi, Yang Saring ยท 2026

Under-resourced languages remain underrepresented in quantitative rhythm research,particularly in systematic intra-branch analysis of acoustic differentiation within closely related linguistic groups.โ€ฆ

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Enabling High Error Tolerance in Satellite Video Transmissions by Generative Semantic Communication

Zixin Zhao, Jingzhi Hu, Geoffrey Ye Li ยท 2026

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite relays will significantly extend the coverage of mobile networks, enabling users in remote areas to transmit data of real-time events. Nevertheless, the limited power oโ€ฆ

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang ยท 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asyโ€ฆ

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Comparative Evaluation of Modern Deep Learning Methodologies for Portfolio Optimization

Samuel Ozechi, Banjo Francis, Wisdom Yakanu, Joe Wayne Byers ยท 2026

This study proposes a portfolio optimization framework that integrates advanced deep learning architectures with traditional financial models to enhance risk-adjusted performance. Using historical datโ€ฆ

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CONCERTO: Characterization of analog readout electronics

Mounir Abdkrimi (NEEL - MagSup), Olivier Rossetto (LPSC), O. Bourrion (LPSC), Christophe Vescovi (LPSC), C. Hoarau (LPSC) ยท 2026

CONCERTO is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument that operated on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope from April 2021 to May 2023. Its primary scientific objectives include the study ofโ€ฆ

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OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox ยท 2026

OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor vehicle. It is a modifโ€ฆ

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Single-Cycle Multidirectional EOG Classification Faster than Human Reaction Time for Wearable Human-Computer Interactions

Tasnia Nabiha, Orthy Toor, Wakim Sajjad Sakib, Abdullah Bin Shams ยท 2026

Electrooculogram (EOG) is a non-invasive bio-signal generated by the potential difference between the retina and cornea during eye movement, and is widely utilized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) โ€ฆ

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Shared-kernel Wavelet Neural Networks for Poisson Image Reconstruction

Yuanhao Gong, Tan Tang, Qianyan Liu ยท 2026

The Laplacian operator transforms the image into its Laplacian field, which usually is sparse and satisfies a stable distribution. On the other hand, an image can be uniquely reconstructed from its Laโ€ฆ

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GS-DOT: Gaussian splatting-based image reconstruction for diffuse optical tomography

Jingjing Jiang ยท 2026

This work presents GS-DOT, a novel image reconstruction framework based on Gaussian Splatting (GS) for diffuse optical tomography (DOT). Inspired by GS for rendering applications, absorption coefficieโ€ฆ

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Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Nooeizadegan ยท 2026

Gaussian basis functions provide an efficient and flexible alternative to spline activations in KANs. In this work, we introduce the partition-of-unity Gaussian KAN (PU-GKAN), a Shepard-type normalizeโ€ฆ

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An Efficient Beam Search Algorithm for Active Perception in Mobile Robotics

Kaixian Qu, Han Wang, Victor Klemm, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter ยท 2026

Active perception is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics in which the robot must decide where to move and what to sense in order to obtain the most informative observations for accomplishing โ€ฆ

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Learning from the Best: Smoothness-Driven Metrics for Data Quality in Imitation Learning

Soham Kulkarni, Raayan Dhar, Yuchen Cui ยท 2026

In behavioral cloning (BC), policy performance is fundamentally limited by demonstration data quality. Real-world datasets contain trajectories of varying quality due to operator skill differences, teโ€ฆ

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