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Investing Is Compression

Oscar Stiffelman · 2026

In 1956 John Kelly wrote a paper at Bell Labs describing the relationship between gambling and Information Theory. What came to be known as the Kelly Criterion is both an objective and a closed-form s…

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4D Vessel Reconstruction for Benchtop Thrombectomy Analysis

Ethan Nguyen, Javier Carmona, Arisa Matsuzaki, Naoki Kaneko, Katsushi Arisaka · 2026

Introduction: Mechanical thrombectomy can cause vessel deformation and procedure-related injury. Benchtop models are widely used for device testing, but time-resolved, full-field 3D vessel-motion meas…

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Zero Shot Deformation Reconstruction for Soft Robots Using a Flexible Sensor Array and Cage Based 3D Gaussian Modeling

Linrui Shou, Zilang Chen, Wenjia Xu, Yiyue Luo, Tingyu Cheng · 2026

We present a zero-shot deformation reconstruction framework for soft robots that operates without any visual supervision at inference time. In this work, zero-shot deformation reconstruction is define…

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SOFTMAP: Sim2Real Soft Robot Forward Modeling via Topological Mesh Alignment and Physics Prior

Ziyong Ma, Uksang Yoo, Jonathan Francis, Weiming Zhi, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Jean Oh · 2026

While soft robot manipulators offer compelling advantages over rigid counterparts, including inherent compliance, safe human-robot interaction, and the ability to conform to complex geometries, accura…

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From Flow to One Step: Real-Time Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation-based Distribution Distillation

Ju Dong, Liding Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yu Fu, Kaixin Bai, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Zhenshan Bing, Zhaopeng Chen, Alois Christian Knoll, Jianwei Zhang · 2026

Generative policies based on diffusion and flow matching achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation by modeling multi-modal human demonstrations. However, their reliance on iterative Ordinary …

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Have We Mastered Scale in Deep Monocular Visual SLAM? The ScaleMaster Dataset and Benchmark

Hyoseok Ju, Bokeon Suh, Giseop Kim · 2026

Recent advances in deep monocular visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have achieved impressive accuracy and dense reconstruction capabilities, yet their robustness to scale inconsisten…

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Latent Diffeomorphic Co-Design of End-Effectors for Deformable and Fragile Object Manipulation

Kei Ikemura, Yifei Dong, Florian T. Pokorny · 2026

Manipulating deformable and fragile objects remains a fundamental challenge in robotics due to complex contact dynamics and strict requirements on object integrity. Existing approaches typically optim…

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Time-resolved aortic 3D shape reconstruction from a limited number of cine 2D MRI slices

Gloria Wolkerstorfer, Stefano Buoso, Rabea Schlenker, Jochen von Spiczak, Robert Manka, Sebastian Kozerke · 2026

Background and Objective: To assess the feasibility and accuracy of reconstructing time-resolved, three-dimensional, subject-specific aortic geometries from a limited number of standard cine 2D magnet…

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Highly Deformable Proprioceptive Membrane for Real-Time 3D Shape Reconstruction

Guanyu Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Dezhong Tong, Xiaonan Huang · 2026

Reconstructing the three-dimensional (3D) geometry of object surfaces is essential for robot perception, yet vision-based approaches are generally unreliable under low illumination or occlusion. This …

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CEI: A Unified Interface for Cross-Embodiment Visuomotor Policy Learning in 3D Space

Tong Wu, Shoujie Li, Junhao Gong, Changqing Guo, Xingting Li, Shilong Mu, Wenbo Ding · 2026

Robotic foundation models trained on large-scale manipulation datasets have shown promise in learning generalist policies, but they often overfit to specific viewpoints, robot arms, and especially par…

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TOSC: Task-Oriented Shape Completion for Open-World Dexterous Grasp Generation from Partial Point Clouds

Weishang Wu, Yifei Shi, Zhiping Cai · 2026

Task-oriented dexterous grasping remains challenging in robotic manipulations of open-world objects under severe partial observation, where significant missing data invalidates generic shape completio…

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UNIC: Learning Unified Multimodal Extrinsic Contact Estimation

Zhengtong Xu, Yuki Shirai · 2026

Contact-rich manipulation requires reliable estimation of extrinsic contacts-the interactions between a grasped object and its environment which provide essential contextual information for planning, …

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Comprehensive Assessment of LiDAR Evaluation Metrics: A Comparative Study Using Simulated and Real Data

Syed Mostaquim Ali, Taufiq Rahman, Ghazal Farhani, Mohamed H. Zaki, Benoit Anctil, Dominique Charlebois · 2025

For developing safe Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), rigorous testing is required before they are deemed safe for road deployments. Since comprehensive conventional physical testing is impractical du…

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3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning

Chenyuan Chen, Haoran Ding, Ran Ding, Tianyu Liu, Zewen He, Anqing Duan, Dezhen Song, Xiaodan Liang, Yoshihiko Nakamura · 2025

Diffusion models, as a class of deep generative models, have recently emerged as powerful tools for robot skills by enabling stable training with reliable convergence. In this paper, we present an end…

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RadarSFD: Single-Frame Diffusion with Pretrained Priors for Radar Point Clouds

Bin Zhao, Nakul Garg · 2025

Millimeter-wave radar provides perception robust to fog, smoke, dust, and low light, making it attractive for size, weight, and power constrained robotic platforms. Current radar imaging methods, howe…

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PERSEUS: Perception with Semantic Endoscopic Understanding and SLAM

Ayberk Acar, Fangjie Li, Susheela Sharma Stern, Lidia Al-Zogbi, Hao Li, Kanyifeechukwu Jane Oguine, Dilara Isik, Brendan Burkhart, Jesse F. d'Almeida, Robert J. Webster III, Ipek Oguz, Jie Ying Wu · 2025

Purpose: Natural orifice surgeries minimize the need for incisions and reduce the recovery time compared to open surgery; however, they require a higher level of expertise due to visualization and ori…

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Synesthesia of Machines (SoM)-Aided LiDAR Point Cloud Transmission for Collaborative Perception

Ensong Liu, Rongqing Zhang, Xiang Cheng, Jian Tang · 2025

Collaborative perception enables more accurate and comprehensive scene understanding by learning how to share information between agents, with LiDAR point clouds providing essential precise spatial da…

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Touch-Augmented Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced 3D Scene Reconstruction

Yuchen Gao, Xiao Xu, Eckehard Steinbach, Daniel E. Lucani, Qi Zhang · 2025

This paper presents a multimodal framework that integrates touch signals (contact points and surface normals) into 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our approach enhances scene reconstruction, particularl…

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Deep Learning Based Dynamic Environment Reconstruction for Vehicular ISAC Scenarios

Junzhe Song, Ruisi He, Mi Yang, Zhengyu Zhang, Bingcheng Liu, Jiahui Han, Haoxiang Zhang, Bo Ai · 2025

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) technology plays a critical role in future intelligent transportation systems, by enabling vehicles to perceive and reconstruct the surrounding environment …

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Hestia: Voxel-Face-Aware Hierarchical Next-Best-View Acquisition for Efficient 3D Reconstruction

Cheng-You Lu, Zhuoli Zhuang, Nguyen Thanh Trung Le, Da Xiao, Yu-Cheng Chang, Thomas Do, Srinath Sridhar, Chin-teng Lin · 2025

Advances in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis have enabled efficient and photorealistic rendering. However, images for reconstruction are still either largely manual or constrained by simple …

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