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CAR-EnKF: A Covariance-Adaptive and Recalibrated Ensemble Kalman Filter Framework

Shida Jiang, Shengyu Tao, Zihe Liu, Scott Moura ยท 2026

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is widely used for nonlinear and high-dimensional state estimation because it replaces complex covariance propagation with simple ensemble statistics. However, convenโ€ฆ

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Design Guidelines for Nonlinear Kalman Filters via Covariance Compensation

Shida Jiang, Jaewoong Lee, Shengyu Tao, Scott Moura ยท 2026

Nonlinear extensions of the Kalman filter (KF), such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the unscented Kalman filter (UKF), are indispensable for state estimation in complex dynamical systems, yetโ€ฆ

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Rapid stabilization of the heat equation with localized disturbance

Patricio Guzman, Hugo Parada (SPHINX, IECL), Christian Calle-Cardenas ยท 2025

This paper studies the rapid stabilization of a multidimensional heat equation in the presence of an unknown spatially localized disturbance. A novel multivalued feedback control strategy is proposed,โ€ฆ

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InnerGS: Internal Scenes Reconstruction and Segmentation via Factorized 3D Gaussian Splatting

Shuxin Liang, Yihan Xiao, Wenlu Tang ยท 2025

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity for efficient scene rendering by representing scenes as explicit sets of anisotropic 3D Gaussians. However, most existing work focuses primaโ€ฆ

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Decoding Covert Speech from EEG Using a Functional Areas Spatio-Temporal Transformer

Muyun Jiang, Yi Ding, Wei Zhang, Kok Ann Colin Teo, LaiGuan Fong, Shuailei Zhang, Zhiwei Guo, Chenyu Liu, Raghavan Bhuvanakantham, Wei Khang Jeremy Sim, Chuan Huat Vince Foo, Rong Hui Jonathan Chua, Parasuraman Padmanabhan, Victoria Leong, Jia Lu, Balazs Gulyas, Cuntai Guan ยท 2025

Covert speech involves imagining speaking without audible sound or any movements. Decoding covert speech from electroencephalogram (EEG) is challenging due to a limited understanding of neural pronuncโ€ฆ

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Intent-Aware MPC for Aircraft Detect-and-Avoid with Response Delay: A Comparative Study with ACAS Xu

Arash Bahari Kordabad, Arabinda Ghosh, Sybert Stroeve, Sadegh Soudjani ยท 2025

In this paper, we propose an intent-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach for the remain-well-clear (RWC) functionality of a multi-agent aircraft detect-and-avoid (DAA) system and compare its โ€ฆ

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AI-Empowered Catalyst Discovery: A Survey from Classical Machine Learning Approaches to Large Language Models

Yuanyuan Xu, Hanchen Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Lexing Xie, Yin Chen, Flora Salim, Ying Zhang, Justin Gooding, Toby Walsh ยท 2025

Catalysts are essential for accelerating chemical reactions and enhancing selectivity, which is crucial for the sustainable production of energy, materials, and bioactive compounds. Catalyst discoveryโ€ฆ

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TopoCellGen: Generating Histopathology Cell Topology with a Diffusion Model

Meilong Xu, Saumya Gupta, Xiaoling Hu, Chen Li, Shahira Abousamra, Dimitris Samaras, Prateek Prasanna, Chao Chen ยท 2024

Accurately modeling multi-class cell topology is crucial in digital pathology, as it provides critical insights into tissue structure and pathology. The synthetic generation of cell topology enables rโ€ฆ

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Med-TTT: Vision Test-Time Training model for Medical Image Segmentation

Jiashu Xu ยท 2024

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable suโ€ฆ

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SkinFormer: Learning Statistical Texture Representation with Transformer for Skin Lesion Segmentation

Rongtao Xu, Changwei Wang, Jiguang Zhang, Shibiao Xu, Weiliang Meng, Xiaopeng Zhang ยท 2024

Accurate skin lesion segmentation from dermoscopic images is of great importance for skin cancer diagnosis. However, automatic segmentation of melanoma remains a challenging task because it is difficuโ€ฆ

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Mitigating Overconfidence in Nonlinear Kalman Filters via Covariance Recalibration

Shida Jiang, Junzhe Shi, Scott Moura ยท 2024

The Kalman filter (KF) is an optimal linear state estimator for linear systems, and numerous extensions, including the extended Kalman filter (EKF), unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and cubature Kalman โ€ฆ

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Customizable Perturbation Synthesis for Robust SLAM Benchmarking

Xiaohao Xu, Tianyi Zhang, Sibo Wang, Xiang Li, Yongqi Chen, Ye Li, Bhiksha Raj, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Xiaonan Huang ยท 2024

Robustness is a crucial factor for the successful deployment of robots in unstructured environments, particularly in the domain of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Simulation-based benchmโ€ฆ

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InCoRo: In-Context Learning for Robotics Control with Feedback Loops

Jiaqiang Ye Zhu, Carla Gomez Cano, David Vazquez Bermudez, Michal Drozdzal ยท 2024

One of the challenges in robotics is to enable robotic units with the reasoning capability that would be robust enough to execute complex tasks in dynamic environments. Recent advances in LLMs have poโ€ฆ

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Coverage Explorer: Coverage-guided Test Generation for Cyber Physical Systems

Sanaz Sheikhi, Stanley Bak ยท 2023

Given the safety-critical functions of autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) across diverse domains, testing these systems is essential. While conventional software and hardware testing methodologieโ€ฆ

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Semi-supervised Segmentation of Histopathology Images with Noise-Aware Topological Consistency

Meilong Xu, Xiaoling Hu, Saumya Gupta, Shahira Abousamra, Chao Chen ยท 2023

In digital pathology, segmenting densely distributed objects like glands and nuclei is crucial for downstream analysis. Since detailed pixel-wise annotations are very time-consuming, we need semi-supeโ€ฆ

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Onboard View Planning of a Flying Camera for High Fidelity 3D Reconstruction of a Moving Actor

Qingyuan Jiang, Volkan Isler ยท 2023

Capturing and reconstructing a human actor's motion is important for filmmaking and gaming. Currently, motion capture systems with static cameras are used for pixel-level high-fidelity reconstructionsโ€ฆ

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Target Active Speaker Detection with Audio-visual Cues

Yidi Jiang, Ruijie Tao, Zexu Pan, Haizhou Li ยท 2023

In active speaker detection (ASD), we would like to detect whether an on-screen person is speaking based on audio-visual cues. Previous studies have primarily focused on modeling audio-visual synchronโ€ฆ

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Almost Exact Risk Budgeting with Return Forecasts for Portfolio Allocation

Avinash Bhardwaj, Manjesh K Hanawal, Purushottam Parthasarathy ยท 2022

In this paper, we revisit the portfolio allocation problem with designated risk-budget [Qian, 2005]. We generalize the problem of arbitrary risk budgets with unequal correlations to one that includes โ€ฆ

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Dict-TTS: Learning to Pronounce with Prior Dictionary Knowledge for Text-to-Speech

Ziyue Jiang, Zhe Su, Zhou Zhao, Qian Yang, Yi Ren, Jinglin Liu, Zhenhui Ye ยท 2022

Polyphone disambiguation aims to capture accurate pronunciation knowledge from natural text sequences for reliable Text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, previous approaches require substantial annotaโ€ฆ

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Collision Risk and Operational Impact of Speed Change Advisories as Aircraft Collision Avoidance Maneuvers

Sydney M. Katz, Luis E. Alvarez, Michael Owen, Samuel Wu, Marc Brittain, Anshuman Das, Mykel J. Kochenderfer ยท 2022

Aircraft collision avoidance systems have long been a key factor in keeping our airspace safe. Over the past decade, the FAA has supported the development of a new family of collision avoidance systemโ€ฆ

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