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Causal Scene Narration with Runtime Safety Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Driving

Yun Li, Yidu Zhang, Simon Thompson, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving must integrate diverse textual inputs, including navigation commands, hazard warnings, and traffic state descriptions, yet current systems of…

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Blind Quality Enhancement for G-PCC Compressed Dynamic Point Clouds

Tian Guo, Hui Yuan, Chang Sun, Wei Zhang, Raouf Hamzaoui, Sam Kwong · 2026

Point cloud compression often introduces noticeable reconstruction artifacts, which makes quality enhancement necessary. Existing approaches typically assume prior knowledge of the distortion level an…

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A Low-Complexity PFA-Based Autofocus Algorithm for Automotive SAR

S. Hamed Javadi, Andre Bourdoux, Adnan Albaba, Hichem Sahli · 2026

Radars provide robust perception of vehicle surroundings by effectively functioning in poor light and adverse weather conditions. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) algorithms are employed to address the …

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PRISM: Protocol Refinement through Intelligent Simulation Modeling

Brian Hsu, Priyanka V Setty, Rory M Butler, Ryan Lewis, Casey Stone, Rebecca Weinberg, Thomas Brettin, Rick Stevens, Ian Foster, Arvind Ramanathan · 2026

Automating experimental protocol design and execution remains as a fundamental bottleneck in realizing self-driving laboratories. We introduce PRISM (Protocol Refinement through Intelligent Simulation…

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Vision-Guided Optic Flow Navigation for Small Lunar Missions

Sean Cowan, Pietro Fanti, Leon B. S. Williams, Chit Hong Yam, Kaneyasu Asakuma, Yuichiro Nada, Dario Izzo · 2025

Private lunar missions are faced with the challenge of robust autonomous navigation while operating under stringent constraints on mass, power, and computational resources. This work proposes a motion…

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Uncertainty Discounting in Deterministic Black Box Price Predictions for Energy Arbitrage

Arnab Bhattacharjee · 2025

This study examines the economic impact of post-hoc uncertainty discounting in predictive energy management, specifically in battery energy arbitrage. A 2.2 MWh, 1.1 MW Tesla battery, emulating operat…

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Hybrid Vision Servoing with Depp Alignment and GRU-Based Occlusion Recovery

Jee Won Lee, Hansol Lim, Sooyeun Yang, Jongseong Brad Choi · 2025

Vision-based control systems, such as image-based visual servoing (IBVS), have been extensively explored for precise robot manipulation. A persistent challenge, however, is maintaining robust target t…

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Development of a Digital Twin for an Electric Vehicle Emulator Modeling, Control, and Experimental Validation

Lamine Chalal, Ahmed Rachid · 2025

This paper presents the development and validation of a digital twin for a scaled-down electric vehicle (EV) emulator, designed to replicate longitudinal vehicle dynamics under diverse operating condi…

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Lossless 4:2:0 Screen Content Coding Using Luma-Guided Soft Context Formation

Hannah Och, Andre Kaup · 2025

The soft context formation coder is a pixel-wise state-of-the-art lossless screen content coder using pattern matching and color palette coding in combination with arithmetic coding. It achieves excel…

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HALO: Human Preference Aligned Offline Reward Learning for Robot Navigation

Gershom Seneviratne, Jianyu An, Sahire Ellahy, Kasun Weerakoon, Mohamed Bashir Elnoor, Jonathan Deepak Kannan, Amogha Thalihalla Sunil, Dinesh Manocha · 2025

In this paper, we introduce HALO, a novel Offline Reward Learning algorithm that quantifies human intuition in navigation into a vision-based reward function for robot navigation. HALO learns a reward…

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ReflectGAN: Modeling Vegetation Effects for Soil Carbon Estimation from Satellite Imagery

Dristi Datta, Manoranjan Paul, Manzur Murshed, Shyh Wei Teng, Leigh M. Schmidtke · 2025

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a critical indicator of soil health, but its accurate estimation from satellite imagery is hindered in vegetated regions due to spectral contamination from plant cover, wh…

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Lung Nodule-SSM: Self-Supervised Lung Nodule Detection and Classification in Thoracic CT Images

Muniba Noreen (Faculty of Electrical, Electronics Engineering, University of Engineering, Technology Taxila, Pakistan), Furqan Shaukat (Faculty of Electrical, Electronics Engineering, University of Engineering, Technology Taxila, Pakistan) · 2025

Lung cancer remains among the deadliest types of cancer in recent decades, and early lung nodule detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. The limited availability of annotated medical imag…

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3D Gaussian Adaptive Reconstruction for Fourier Light-Field Microscopy

Chenyu Xu, Zhouyu Jin, Chengkang Shen, Hao Zhu, Zhan Ma, Bo Xiong, You Zhou, Xun Cao, Ning Gu · 2025

Compared to light-field microscopy (LFM), which enables high-speed volumetric imaging but suffers from non-uniform spatial sampling, Fourier light-field microscopy (FLFM) introduces sub-aperture divis…

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Improved Motion Plane Adaptive 360-Degree Video Compression Using Affine Motion Models

Marina Ritthaler, Andy Regensky, Andre Kaup · 2025

Efficient compression of 360-degree video content requires the application of advanced motion models for interframe prediction. The Motion Plane Adaptive (MPA) motion model projects the frames on mult…

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Scene-based nonuniformity correction with homography transformation

Peretz Yafin, Nir Sochen, Iftach Klapp · 2025

Due to their affordable, low mass, and small dimensions, uncooled microbolometer-based thermal focal plane arrays (UC-FPAs) are useful for long-wave infrared (LWIR)imaging applications. However, in ou…

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ADMM-MCBF-LCA: A Layered Control Architecture for Safe Real-Time Navigation

Anusha Srikanthan, Yifan Xue, Vijay Kumar, Nikolai Matni, Nadia Figueroa · 2025

We consider the problem of safe real-time navigation of a robot in a dynamic environment with moving obstacles of arbitrary smooth geometries and input saturation constraints. We assume that the robot…

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Towards Autonomous Navigation of Neuroendovascular Tools for Timely Stroke Treatment via Contact-aware Path Planning

Aabha Tamhankar, Giovanni Pittiglio · 2025

In this paper, we propose a model-based contact-aware motion planner for autonomous navigation of neuroendovascular tools in acute ischemic stroke. The planner is designed to find the optimal control …

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LUCAS: A CMOS-Based Fast Readout ASIC for Silicon Photomultipliers -- Measurement and Performance Evaluation

Seyed Arash Katourani · 2025

This paper presents the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of LUCAS, a low-power, ultra-low jitter ASIC optimized for SiPM readout in Time-of-Flight Computed Tomography (ToF-CT) applic…

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Rethinking the Upsampling Layer in Hyperspectral Image Super Resolution

Haohan Shi, Fei Zhou, Xin Sun, Jungong Han · 2025

Deep learning has achieved significant success in single hyperspectral image super-resolution (SHSR); however, the high spectral dimensionality leads to a heavy computational burden, thus making it di…

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RIFT: Entropy-Optimised Fractional Wavelet Constellations for Ideal Time-Frequency Estimation

James M. Cozens, Simon J. Godsill · 2025

We introduce a new method for estimating the Ideal Time-Frequency Representation (ITFR) of complex nonstationary signals. The Reconstructive Ideal Fractional Transform (RIFT) computes a constellation …

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