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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 · 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 on…

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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 · 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 gener…

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

Feixue Cai, Hua Zhou, Zhuyin Ren · 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 s…

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Diff-Muscle: Efficient Learning for Musculoskeletal Robotic Table Tennis

Wentao Zhao, Jun Guo, Kangyao Huang, Xin Liu, Huaping Liu · 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 t…

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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 · 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 capab…

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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 · 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 oper…

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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 · 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 c…

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Skill-Aware Diffusion for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

Aoshen Huang, Jiaming Chen, Jiyu Cheng, Ran Song, Wei Pan, Wei Zhang · 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 t…

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Modeling and Analysis of VOC-based Interplant Molecular Communication Channel

Bitop Maitra, Ozgur B. Akan · 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 signalin…

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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 · 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 autoregr…

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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 · 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 non…

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MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy

Saida Liu, Nikolay Atanasov, Shumon Koga · 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 modes…

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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 · 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 wi…

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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 · 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 …

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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 · 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 innovati…

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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 · 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 t…

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

Sashank Makanaboyina · 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 prev…

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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) · 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 experim…

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Safe and Stable Control via Lyapunov-Guided Diffusion Models

Xiaoyuan Cheng, Xiaohang Tang, Yiming Yang · 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 re…

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

Yating Lin, Zixuan Huang, Fan Yang, Dmitry Berenson · 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 thes…

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