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Multi-task Just Recognizable Difference for Video Coding for Machines: Database, Model, and Coding Application

Junqi Liu, Yun Zhang, Xiaoxia Huang, Long Xu, Weisi Lin · 2026

Just Recognizable Difference (JRD) boosts coding efficiency for machine vision through visibility threshold modeling, but is currently limited to a single-task scenario. To address this issue, we prop…

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Agentic AI and Occupational Displacement: A Multi-Regional Task Exposure Analysis of Emerging Labor Market Disruption

Ravish Gupta, Saket Kumar · 2026

This paper extends the Acemoglu-Restrepo task exposure framework to address the labor market effects of agentic artificial intelligence systems: autonomous AI agents capable of completing entire occup…

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Towards Equitable Robotic Furnishing Agents for Aging-in-Place: ADL-Grounded Design Exploration

Hansoo Lee, Changhee Seo, Subin Park, Sonya S. Kwak · 2026

In aging-in-place contexts, small difficulties in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) can accumulate, affecting well-being through fatigue, anxiety, reduced autonomy, and safety risks. This position pape…

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)?

Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Wei Zhou, Patrick Le Callet · 2026

Evaluating perceived video quality is essential for ensuring high Quality of Experience (QoE) in modern streaming applications. While existing subjective datasets and Video Quality Metrics (VQMs) cove…

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Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories

Renming Huang, Chendong Zeng, Wenjing Tang, Jintian Cai, Cewu Lu, Panpan Cai · 2026

While imitation learning (IL) has achieved impressive success in dexterous manipulation through generative modeling and pretraining, state-of-the-art approaches like Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model…

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Regional Transportation Modeling for Equitable Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Design

Ismaeel Babur, Jane Macfarlane · 2026

The widespread adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) holds promise for mitigating emission-related health impacts, particularly for low-income communities disproportionately affected by exposur…

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Just in time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning

Kuanqi Cai, Liding Zhang, Xinwen Su, Kejia Chen, Chaoqun Wang, Sami Haddadin, Alois Knoll, Arash Ajoudani, Luis Figueredo · 2026

In high-dimensional robotic path planning, traditional sampling-based methods often struggle to efficiently identify both feasible and optimal paths in complex, multi-obstacle environments. This chall…

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Beyond Success: Refining Elegant Robot Manipulation from Mixed-Quality Data via Just-in-Time Intervention

Yanbo Mao, Jianlong Fu, Ruoxuan Zhang, Hongxia Xie, Meibao Yao · 2025

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have enabled notable progress in general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet their learned policies often exhibit variable execution quality. We attribute this variab…

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When Do Domain-Specific Foundation Models Justify Their Cost? A Systematic Evaluation Across Retinal Imaging Tasks

David Isztl, Tahm Spitznagel, Gabor Mark Somfai, Rui Santos · 2025

Large vision foundation models have been widely adopted for retinal disease classification without systematic evidence justifying their parameter requirements. In the present work we address two criti…

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Stable Offline Hand-Eye Calibration for any Robot with Just One Mark

Sicheng Xie, Lingchen Meng, Zhiying Du, Shuyuan Tu, Haidong Cao, Jiaqi Leng, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang · 2025

Imitation learning has achieved remarkable success in a variety of robotic tasks by learning a mapping function from camera-space observations to robot-space actions. Recent work indicates that the us…

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Just Few States are Enough: Randomized Sparse Feedback for Stability of Dynamical Systems

Zaid Hadach, Hajar El Hammouti, El Houcine Bergou, Adnane Saoud · 2025

While classical control theory assumes that the controller has access to measurements of the entire state (or output) at every time instant, this paper investigates a setting where the feedback contro…

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From Natural Language to Certified H-infinity Controllers: Integrating LLM Agents with LMI-Based Synthesis

Shihao Li, Jiachen Li, Jiamin Xu, Dongmei Chen · 2025

We present \textsc{S2C} (Specification-to-Certified-Controller), a multi-agent framework that maps natural-language requirements to certified $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ state-feedback controllers via LMI sy…

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Optimized Design of the Generalized Bilinear Transformation for Discretizing Analog Systems

Shen Chen, Yanlong Li, Jiamin Cui, Wei Yao, Jisong Wang, Yixin Tian, Chaohou Liu, Yang Yang, Jiaxi Ying, Zeng Liu, Jinjun Liu · 2025

A common approach to digital system design involves transforming a continuous-time (s-domain) transfer function into the discrete-time (z-domain) using methods such as Euler or Tustin. These transform…

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Don't Just Search, Understand: Semantic Path Planning Agent for Spherical Tensegrity Robots in Unknown Environments

Junwen Zhang, Changyue Liu, Pengqi Fu, Xiang Guo, Ye Shi, Xudong Liang, Zhijian Wang, Hanzhi Ma · 2025

Endowed with inherent dynamical properties that grant them remarkable ruggedness and adaptability, spherical tensegrity robots stand as prototypical examples of hybrid softrigid designs and excellent …

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MimicDroid: In-Context Learning for Humanoid Robot Manipulation from Human Play Videos

Rutav Shah, Shuijing Liu, Qi Wang, Zhenyu Jiang, Sateesh Kumar, Mingyo Seo, Roberto Martin-Martin, Yuke Zhu · 2025

We aim to enable humanoid robots to efficiently solve new manipulation tasks from a few video examples. In-context learning (ICL) is a promising framework for achieving this goal due to its test-time …

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Comprehensive Analysis and Exclusion Hypothesis of $\alpha$-Approximation Method for Discretizing Analog Systems

Shen Chen, Jisong Wang, Dejun Liu, Jiaxi Ying, Shuai Wang · 2025

A popular method for designing digital models is transforming the transfer function of the corresponding analog models from continuous domain (s-domain) into discrete domain (z-domain) using the s-to-…

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A Comparative Study of Spline-Based Trajectory Reconstruction Methods Across Varying Automatic Vehicle Location Data Densities

Jake Robbennolt, Sirajum Munira, Stephen D. Boyles · 2025

Automatic vehicle location (AVL) data offers insights into transit dynamics, but its effectiveness is often hampered by inconsistent update frequencies, necessitating trajectory reconstruction. This r…

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Set-membership identification of continuous-time MIMO systems via Tustin discretization

Vito Cerone, Sophie M. Fosson, Simone Pirrera, Diego Regruto · 2025

In this paper, we deal with the identification of continuous-time systems from sampled data corrupted by unknown but bounded errors. A significant challenge in continuous-time identification is the es…

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Belief-Conditioned One-Step Diffusion: Real-Time Trajectory Planning with Just-Enough Sensing

Gokul Puthumanaillam, Aditya Penumarti, Manav Vora, Paulo Padrao, Jose Fuentes, Leonardo Bobadilla, Jane Shin, Melkior Ornik · 2025

Robots equipped with rich sensor suites can localize reliably in partially-observable environments, but powering every sensor continuously is wasteful and often infeasible. Belief-space planners addre…

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Casper: Inferring Diverse Intents for Assistive Teleoperation with Vision Language Models

Huihan Liu, Rutav Shah, Shuijing Liu, Jack Pittenger, Mingyo Seo, Yuchen Cui, Yonatan Bisk, Roberto Martin-Martin, Yuke Zhu · 2025

Assistive teleoperation, where control is shared between a human and a robot, enables efficient and intuitive human-robot collaboration in diverse and unstructured environments. A central challenge in…

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