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Realistic Lip Motion Generation Based on 3D Dynamic Viseme and Coarticulation Modeling for Human-Robot Interaction

Sheng Li, Jingcheng Huang, Min Li ยท 2026

Realistic lip synchronization is essential for the natural human-robot non-verbal interaction of humanoid robots. Motivated by this need, this paper presents a lip motion generation framework based onโ€ฆ

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Diff-VS: Efficient Audio-Aware Diffusion U-Net for Vocals Separation

Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung, Richard Vogl, Filip Korzeniowski, Igor Pereira ยท 2026

While diffusion models are best known for their performance in generative tasks, they have also been successfully applied to many other tasks, including audio source separation. However, current generโ€ฆ

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Physics-Enforced Neural Ordinary Differential Equation for Chemical Kinetics Optimization in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Feixue Cai, Hua Zhou, Zhuyin Ren ยท 2026

Calibrating chemical kinetics in a reaction-diffusion system is challenging because of complex dynamics governed by tightly coupled chemistry and transport, while experimental observations are often sโ€ฆ

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Diff-Muscle: Efficient Learning for Musculoskeletal Robotic Table Tennis

Wentao Zhao, Jun Guo, Kangyao Huang, Xin Liu, Huaping Liu ยท 2026

Musculoskeletal robots provide superior advantages in flexibility and dexterity, positioning them as a promising frontier towards embodied intelligence. However, current research is largely confined tโ€ฆ

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RoTri-Diff: A Spatial Robot-Object Triadic Interaction-Guided Diffusion Model for Bimanual Manipulation

Zixuan Chen, Nga Teng Chan, Yiwen Hou, Chenrui Tie, Zixuan Liu, Haonan Chen, Junting Chen, Jieqi Shi, Yang Gao, Jing Huo, Lin Shao ยท 2026

Bimanual manipulation is a fundamental robotic skill that requires continuous and precise coordination between two arms. While imitation learning (IL) is the dominant paradigm for acquiring this capabโ€ฆ

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Interface-Aware Trajectory Reconstruction of Limited Demonstrations for Robot Learning

Demiana R. Barsoum, Mahdieh Nejati Javaremi, Larisa Y.C. Loke, Brenna D. Argall ยท 2026

Assistive robots offer agency to humans with severe motor impairments. Often, these users control high-DoF robots through low-dimensional interfaces, such as using a 1-D sip-and-puff interface to operโ€ฆ

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A Multi-Scenario UAV RF Dataset with Real-World Acquisition and Signal Processing Benchmarking

Haolin Zheng, Ning Gao, Zhenghang Zhu, Zhijun Huang, Shi Jin, Michail Matthaiou ยท 2026

We present a real-world multi-scenario unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio frequency (RF) dataset, namely DRFF-R2, which is collected using a dedicated acquisition platform under diverse operational cโ€ฆ

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Skill-Aware Diffusion for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

Aoshen Huang, Jiaming Chen, Jiyu Cheng, Ran Song, Wei Pan, Wei Zhang ยท 2026

Robust generalization in robotic manipulation is crucial for robots to adapt flexibly to diverse environments. Existing methods usually improve generalization by scaling data and networks, but model tโ€ฆ

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Modeling and Analysis of VOC-based Interplant Molecular Communication Channel

Bitop Maitra, Ozgur B. Akan ยท 2025

Molecular communication (MC) enables information transfer using particles inspired by biological systems. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the most abundant and diverse classes of signalinโ€ฆ

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WAM-Diff: A Masked Diffusion VLA Framework with MoE and Online Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving

Mingwang Xu, Jiahao Cui, Feipeng Cai, Hanlin Shang, Zhihao Zhu, Shan Luan, Yifang Xu, Neng Zhang, Yaoyi Li, Jia Cai, Siyu Zhu ยท 2025

End-to-end autonomous driving systems based on vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate multimodal sensor inputs and language instructions to generate planning and control signals. While autoregrโ€ฆ

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Dual-Variable Force Characterisation method for Human-Robot Interaction in Wearable Robotics

Felipe Ballen-Moreno, Pasquale Ferrentino, Milan Amighi, Bram Vanderborght, Tom Verstraten ยท 2025

Understanding the physical interaction with wearable robots is essential to ensure safety and comfort. However, this interaction is complex in two key aspects: (1) the motion involved, and (2) the nonโ€ฆ

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MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy

Saida Liu, Nikolay Atanasov, Shumon Koga ยท 2025

This paper proposes MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy, a control policy for active multi-target tracking using a mobile agent. The policy enables multiple behavior modesโ€ฆ

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IDMap: A Pseudo-Speaker Generator Framework Based on Speaker Identity Index to Vector Mapping

Zeyan Liu, Liping Chen, Kong Aik Lee, Zhenhua Ling ยท 2025

Facilitated by the speech generation framework that disentangles speech into content, speaker, and prosody, voice anonymization is accomplished by substituting the original speaker embedding vector wiโ€ฆ

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Been There, Scanned That: Nostalgia-Driven LiDAR Compression for Self-Driving Cars

Ali Khalid, Jaiaid Mobin, Sumanth Rao Appala, Avinash Maurya, Stephany Berrio Perez, M. Mustafa Rafique, Fawad Ahmad ยท 2025

An autonomous vehicle can generate several terabytes of sensor data per day. A significant portion of this data consists of 3D point clouds produced by depth sensors such as LiDARs. This data must be โ€ฆ

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Semi-Peaucellier Linkage and Differential Mechanism for Linear Pinching and Self-Adaptive Grasping

Haokai Ding, Zhaohan Chen, Tao Yang, Wenzeng Zhang ยท 2025

This paper presents the SP-Diff parallel gripper system, addressing the limited adaptability of conventional end-effectors in intelligent industrial automation. The proposed design employs an innovatiโ€ฆ

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Investigation of perception inconsistency in speaker embedding for asynchronous voice anonymization

Rui Wang, Liping Chen, Kong Aik Lee, Zhengpeng Zha, Zhenhua Ling ยท 2025

Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from tโ€ฆ

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SER-Diff: Synthetic Error Replay Diffusion for Incremental Brain Tumor Segmentation

Sashank Makanaboyina ยท 2025

Incremental brain tumor segmentation is critical for models that must adapt to evolving clinical datasets without retraining on all prior data. However, catastrophic forgetting, where models lose prevโ€ฆ

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Towards Electrophysiological and Histological Mapping of Upper Limb Nerves in Pigs Using Epineural Stimulation

Jonathan Baum (CAMIN), Chamot-Nonin Manon, Oppelt Vera, David Guiraud, Christine Azevedo Coste (CAMIN), Thomas Guiho (CAMIN) ยท 2025

Understanding the relationship between nerve anatomy and the functional outcomes of electrical stimulation is critical for optimizing neural interface design. In this study, we conducted acute experimโ€ฆ

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Safe and Stable Control via Lyapunov-Guided Diffusion Models

Xiaoyuan Cheng, Xiaohang Tang, Yiming Yang ยท 2025

Diffusion models have made significant strides in recent years, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities in planning and control tasks. However, most diffusion-based policies remain focused on reโ€ฆ

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AnoF-Diff: One-Step Diffusion-Based Anomaly Detection for Forceful Tool Use

Yating Lin, Zixuan Huang, Fan Yang, Dmitry Berenson ยท 2025

Multivariate time-series anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying unexpected events, has been explored in the field of machine learning for several decades. However, directly applying thesโ€ฆ

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