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A Novel Piecewise Atmospheric Attenuation Model for Free Space Optical Links in Vertical Heterogeneous Networks

Eylem Erdogan, Mohammed Elamassie, Ibrahim Altunbas, Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Murat Uysal, Halim Yanikomeroglu ยท 2026

Free-space optical (FSO) communication is emerging as a key backhaul technology for next-generation vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets), whose architecture spans satellites, high-altitude platfโ€ฆ

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Rain Rate Estimation Bounds and Weather-Adaptive Pilot Allocation for LEO Satellite ISAC

Haofan Dong, Houtianfu Wang, Hanlin Cai, O. Tansel Baydas, Ozgur B. Akan ยท 2026

Rain attenuates Ku-band satellite signals by up to 20~dB, encoding precipitation information along the Earth-space slant path. This paper derives the Bayesian Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (BCRB) for rain rateโ€ฆ

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Compositional-Degradation UAV Image Restoration: Conditional Decoupled MoE Network and A Benchmark

Jinquan Yan, Zhicheng Zhao, Zhengzheng Tu, Chenglong Li, Jin Tang, Bin Luo ยท 2026

UAV images are critical for applications such as large-area mapping, infrastructure inspection, and emergency response. However, in real-world flight environments, a single image is often affected by โ€ฆ

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RAVEN: Radar Adaptive Vision Encoders for Efficient Chirp-wise Object Detection and Segmentation

Anuvab Sen, Mir Sayeed Mohammad, Saibal Mukhopadhyay ยท 2026

This paper presents RAVEN, a computationally efficient deep learning architecture for FMCW radar perception. The method processes raw ADC data in a chirp-wise streaming manner, preserves MIMO structurโ€ฆ

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RAIN-FIT: Learning of Fitting Surfaces and Noise Distribution from Large Data Sets

Omar M. Sleem, Sahand Kiani, Constantino M. Lagoa ยท 2026

This paper proposes a method for estimating a surface that contains a given set of points from noisy measurements. More precisely, by assuming that the surface is described by the zero set of a functiโ€ฆ

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Simulating Realistic LiDAR Data Under Adverse Weather for Autonomous Vehicles: A Physics-Informed Learning Approach

Vivek Anand, Bharat Lohani, Rakesh Mishra, Gaurav Pandey ยท 2026

Accurate LiDAR simulation is crucial for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather conditions. Existing methods struggle to capture the complex interactions between LiDAR signals and atmospโ€ฆ

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Language-Free Generative Editing from One Visual Example

Omar Elezabi, Eduard Zamfir, Zongwei Wu, Radu Timofte ยท 2026

Text-guided diffusion models have advanced image editing by enabling intuitive control through language. However, despite their strong capabilities, we surprisingly find that SOTA methods struggle witโ€ฆ

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Photogrammetry-Reconstructed 3D Head Meshes for Accessible Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions

Ludovic Pirard, Lorenzo Picinali, Katarina C. Poole ยท 2026

Individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for accurate spatial audio binaural rendering but remain difficult to obtain due to measurement complexity. This study investigates wheโ€ฆ

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SLAM Adversarial Lab: An Extensible Framework for Visual SLAM Robustness Evaluation under Adverse Conditions

Mohamed Hefny, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko ยท 2026

We present SAL (SLAM Adversarial Lab), a modular framework for evaluating visual SLAM systems under adversarial conditions such as fog and rain. SAL represents each adversarial condition as a perturbaโ€ฆ

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Load Balancing in Non-Terrestrial Networks Using Free Space Optical Inter-satellite Links

Abid Afridi, Alexis A. Dowhuszko, Jevgenij Krivochiza, Risto Wichman, Jyri Hamalainen ยท 2026

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) increasingly rely on non-geostationary (NGSO) constellations that combine radio frequency (RF) feeder links (FLs) with free space optical (FSO) inter-satellite links (Iโ€ฆ

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A Robust Simulation Framework for Verification and Validation of Autonomous Maritime Navigation in Adverse Weather and Constrained Environments

Mayur S. Patil, Nataraj Sudharsan, Anthony S. Saaiby, JiaChang Xing, Keliang Pan, Veneela Ammula, Jude Tomdio, Jin Wang, Michael Kei, Heonyong Kang, Sivakumar Rathinam, Prabhakar R. Pagilla ยท 2026

Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance navigational safety, operational efficiency, and long-term cost effectiveness. However, their reliable deploymeโ€ฆ

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Wild-Drive: Off-Road Scene Captioning and Path Planning via Robust Multi-modal Routing and Efficient Large Language Model

Zihang Wang, Xu Li, Benwu Wang, Wenkai Zhu, Xieyuanli Chen, Dong Kong, Kailin Lyu, Yinan Du, Yiming Peng, Haoyang Che ยท 2026

Explainability and transparent decision-making are essential for the safe deployment of autonomous driving systems. Scene captioning summarizes environmental conditions and risk factors in natural lanโ€ฆ

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A Cost-Effective and Climate-Resilient Air Pressure System for Rain Effect Reduction on Automated Vehicle Cameras

Mohamed Sabry, Joseba Gorospe, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal ยท 2026

Recent advances in automated vehicles have focused on improving perception performance under adverse weather conditions; however, research on physical hardware solutions remains limited, despite theirโ€ฆ

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MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Keshara Weerasinghe, Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Andrew Hawkins (MD), Zhaomeng Zhang, Zachary Schrader, Homa Alemzadeh ยท 2026

Background: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) research increasingly relies on multimodal data, yet access to proprietary robot telemetry remains a major barrier. We introduce MiDAS, an โ€ฆ

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Robustness Is a Function, Not a Number: A Factorized Comprehensive Study of OOD Robustness in Vision-Based Driving

Amir Mallak, Alaa Maalouf ยท 2026

Out of distribution (OOD) robustness in autonomous driving is often reduced to a single number, hiding what breaks a policy. We decompose environments along five axes: scene (rural/urban), season, weaโ€ฆ

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IDSOR: Intensity- and Distance-Aware Statistical Outlier Removal for Weather-Robust LiDAR Point Clouds

Chenyang Yan, Mats Bengtsson ยท 2026

LiDAR point clouds captured in rain or snow are often corrupted by weather-induced returns, which can degrade perception and safety-critical scene understanding. This paper proposes Intensity- and Disโ€ฆ

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Uncertainty-Weighted Multi-Task CNN for Joint DoA and Rain-Rate Estimation Under Rain-Induced Array Distortions

Chenyang Yan, Ruonan Yang, Shunqiao Sun, Mats Bengtsson ยท 2026

We investigate joint direction-of-arrival (DoA) and rain-rate estimation for a uniform linear array operating under rain-induced multiplicative distortions. Building on a wavefront fluctuation model wโ€ฆ

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Robust Covariance-Based DoA Estimation under Weather-Induced Distortion

Chenyang Yan, Geert Leus, Mats Bengtsson ยท 2026

We investigate robust direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation for sensor arrays operating in adverse weather conditions, where weather-induced distortions degrade estimation accuracy. Building on a physโ€ฆ

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Optimizing the 4G--5G Migration: A Simulation-Driven Roadmap for Emerging Markets

Desire Guel, Justin Pegd-Winde Kouraogo, Kouka Kouakou Nakoulma ยท 2025

Deploying fifth-generation (5G) networks in emerging markets demands a balance between performance targets and constraints in budget, spectrum, and infrastructure. We use MATLAB simulations to quantifโ€ฆ

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UHDRes: Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration via Dual-Domain Decoupled Spectral Modulation

S. Zhao, W. Lu, B. Wang, T. Wang, K. Zhang, H. Zhao ยท 2025

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) images often suffer from severe degradations such as blur, haze, rain, or low-light conditions, which pose significant challenges for image restoration due to their high reโ€ฆ

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