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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa · 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions …

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PM-EKF: A Physiological Model-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Daily-Life Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimation

Shuhao Que, Remco Poelarends, Valentina Breschi, Ying Wang · 2026

Monitoring physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) in daily life is essential for characterizing individual health and metabolic status. Although indirect calorimetry provides gold-standard PAEE m…

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford · 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying dist…

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Similarity Choice and Negative Scaling in Supervised Contrastive Learning for Deepfake Audio Detection

Jaskirat Sudan, Hashim Ali, Surya Subramani, Hafiz Malik · 2026

Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is widely used to shape representations, but has seen limited targeted study for audio deepfake detection. Existing work typically combines contrastive terms w…

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GEGLU-Transformer for IMU-to-EMG Estimation with Few-Shot Adaptation

Miroljub Mihailovic, Luca Tonin, Stefano Tortora, Emanuele Menegatti · 2026

Reliable estimation of neuromuscular activation is a key enabler for adaptive and personalized control in wearable robotics. However, surface electromyography (EMG) remains difficult to deploy robustl…

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A Scaled Three-Vehicle Platooning Platform

Kaiyue Lu, Qiaoxuan Zhang, Yukun Lu · 2026

Vehicle platooning has attracted increasing attention as a promising approach to improve traffic efficiency, energy consumption, and roadway safety through coordinated multi-vehicle operation. A key c…

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Monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine power cables using distributed fiber-optic sensing

Sakiko Mishima, Yoshiyuki Yajima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

This study proposes an anomaly-detection framework for monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine free-span cables using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which is one of the distributed fib…

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

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox · 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 modif…

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymen…

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IPRU: Input-Perturbation-based Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Unlearning for LAWNs

Ce Liu, Rui Meng, Yinqiu Liu, Xiaodong Xu, Yi Ma, Rahim Tafazolli, Ping Zhang · 2026

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) is a key technology for identity authentication in wireless networks. However, due to the rapid dynamics of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) in low-altitude wirel…

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Unleashing the Agility of Wheeled-Legged Robots for High-Dynamic Reflexive Obstacle Evasion

Yongen Zhao, Zihao Xu, Wenzhi Lu, Zhen Chu, Ce Hao · 2026

Wheeled-legged robots combine the energy efficiency of wheeled locomotion with the terrain adaptability of legged systems, making them promising platforms for agile mobility in complex and dynamic env…

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Robust Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Highway Scenes

Daqian Cheng, Xuchu Ding, Yujia Wu, Xiang Zhang, Lei Wang · 2026

Localization for autonomous vehicles on highways remains under-explored compared to urban roads, and state-of-the-art methods for urban scenes degrade when directly applied to highways. We identify ke…

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Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training

Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen, Yanjiang Guo, Jiaming Liu, Shanghang Zhang, Jianyu Chen, Yichen Zhu · 2026

Post-training is essential for turning pretrained generalist robot policies into reliable task-specific controllers, but existing human-in-the-loop pipelines remain tied to physical execution: each co…

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Ufil: A Unified Framework for Infrastructure-based Localization

Simon Schafer, Lucas Hegerath, Marius Molz, Massimo Marcon, Bassam Alrifaee · 2026

Infrastructure-based localization enhances road safety and traffic management by providing state estimates of road users. Development is hindered by fragmented, application-specific stacks that tightl…

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Neuro-Symbolic Manipulation Understanding with Enriched Semantic Event Chains

Fatemeh Ziaeetabar · 2026

Robotic systems operating in human environments must reason about how object interactions evolve over time, which actions are currently being performed, and what manipulation step is likely to follow.…

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Sample entropy for graph signals: An approach to nonlinear analysis of graph signals

Mei-San Maggie Lei, John Stewart Fabila Carrasco, Javier Escudero · 2026

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dy…

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Algebraic Diversity: Principles of a Group-Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing

Mitchell A. Thornton · 2026

We present principles of algebraic diversity (AD), a group-theoretic approach to signal processing exploiting signal symmetry to extract more information per observation, complementing classical metho…

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DUSG-Tomo-Net: A Deep Unfolded Neural Network for Super-Resolving Gridless Spaceborne SAR Tomography via Learned Toeplitz-Structured Covariance Representation

Kun Qian, Zhuge Xia, Qian Ma, Qi Zhang, Weijian Liu, Xiufeng He · 2026

Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) enables 3-D imaging by exploiting multibaseline acquisitions and has become an important tool for urban mapping. To achieve super-resolution inversion, sp…

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Self-Noise Reduction for Capacitive Sensors via Photoelectric DC Servo: Application to Condenser Microphones

Hirotaka Obo, Atsushi Tsuchiya, Tadashi Ebihara, Naoto Wakatsuki · 2026

The self-noise of capacitive sensors, primarily caused by thermal noise from the gate-bias resistor in the preamplifier, imposes a fundamental limit on measurement sensitivity. In electret condenser m…

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Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound Optimization for Near-Field ISAC with Extended Targets

Zongyao Zhao, Zhaolin Wang, Lincong Han, Liang Xu, Jing Jin, Yuanwei Liu, Kaibin Huang · 2026

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) requires target models beyond the point-target abstraction when the target has a non-negligible spatial extent. In this letter, a geometry-aware …

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