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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic · 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the plan…

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Physics-informed, Generative Adversarial Design of Funicular Shells

Ruben Lourenco, Iciar Alfaro, Beatriz Moya, Elias Cueto · 2026

Shell structures are pivotal in the fields of architecture and engineering, due to their aesthetic appeal and structural efficiency. Recently, 3D concrete printing has reignited the interest in these …

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INTERACT: An AI-Driven Extended Reality Framework for Accesible Communication Featuring Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation and Emotion Recognition

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Andrew J. McCracken, Ilias Karachalios, Evangelos Papatheou · 2026

Video conferencing has become central to professional collaboration, yet most platforms offer limited support for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and multilingual users. The World Health Organisation estimates…

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AI-Driven Modular Services for Accessible Multilingual Education in Immersive Extended Reality Settings: Integrating Speech Processing, Translation, and Sign Language Rendering

N.D. Tantaroudas, A.J. McCracken, I. Karachalios, E. Papatheou · 2026

This work introduces a modular platform that brings together six AI services, automatic speech recognition via OpenAI Whisper, multilingual translation through Meta NLLB, speech synthesis using AWS Po…

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Crab: Multi Layer Contrastive Supervision to Improve Speech Emotion Recognition Under Both Acted and Natural Speech Condition

Lucas H. Ueda, Joao G. T. Lima, Paula D. P. Costa · 2026

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and the prevalence of spontaneous, natural speech. While recent approaches leverage self-supe…

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Layer-Aware Early Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Embeddings for Cognitive Status Classification

Krystof Novotny, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jiri Mekyska · 2026

Speech contains both acoustic and linguistic patterns that reflect cognitive decline, and therefore models describing only one domain cannot fully capture such complexity. This study investigates how …

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Techno-Economic Modelling and Component Sizing in Renewable Energy Communities: A Participant Perspective

Vishal Kachhad, Amit Joshi, Luigi Glielmo · 2025

This article proposes an optimization problem formulation to find the optimal sizes of Photovoltaics (PV) and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for individual participants within the context of th…

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Lessons Learnt: Revisit Key Training Strategies for Effective Speech Emotion Recognition in the Wild

Jing-Tong Tzeng, Bo-Hao Su, Ya-Tse Wu, Hsing-Hang Chou, Chi-Chun Lee · 2025

In this study, we revisit key training strategies in machine learning often overlooked in favor of deeper architectures. Specifically, we explore balancing strategies, activation functions, and fine-t…

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PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation

Avery S. Williamson, Michael J. Bennington, Ravesh Sukhnandan, Mrinali Nakhre, Yuemin Mao, Victoria A. Webster-Wood · 2025

Many bioinspired robots mimic the rigid articulated joint structure of the human hand for grasping tasks, but experience high-frequency mechanical perturbations that can destabilize the system and neg…

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Predicting Cognitive Decline: A Multimodal AI Approach to Dementia Screening from Speech

Lei Chi, Arav Sharma, Ari Gebhardt, Joseph T. Colonel · 2025

Recent progress has been made in detecting early stage dementia entirely through recordings of patient speech. Multimodal speech analysis methods were applied to the PROCESS challenge, which requires …

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Leveraging Prompt Learning and Pause Encoding for Alzheimer's Disease Detection

Yin-Long Liu, Rui Feng, Jia-Hong Yuan, Zhen-Hua Ling · 2024

Compared to other clinical screening techniques, speech-and-language-based automated Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection methods are characterized by their non-invasiveness, cost-effectiveness, and con…

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EUR/USD Exchange Rate Forecasting incorporating Text Mining Based on Pre-trained Language Models and Deep Learning Methods

Hongcheng Ding, Xiangyu Shi, Ruiting Deng, Salaar Faroog, Deshinta Arrova Dewi, Shamsul Nahar Abdullah, Bahiah A Malek · 2024

This study introduces a novel approach for EUR/USD exchange rate forecasting that integrates deep learning, textual analysis, and particle swarm optimization (PSO). By incorporating online news and an…

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HeartBERT: A Self-Supervised ECG Embedding Model for Efficient and Effective Medical Signal Analysis

Saedeh Tahery, Fatemeh Hamid Akhlaghi, Termeh Amirsoleimani · 2024

The HeartBert model is introduced with three primary objectives: reducing the need for labeled data, minimizing computational resources, and simultaneously improving performance in machine learning sy…

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LASMP: Language Aided Subset Sampling Based Motion Planner

Saswati Bhattacharjee, Anirban Sinha, Chinwe Ekenna · 2024

This paper presents the Language Aided Subset Sampling Based Motion Planner (LASMP), a system that helps mobile robots plan their movements by using natural language instructions. LASMP uses a modifie…

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CBF-LLM: Safe Control for LLM Alignment

Yuya Miyaoka, Masaki Inoue · 2024

This paper proposes a control-based framework for aligning large language models (LLMs) by leveraging a control barrier function (CBF) to ensure user-desirable text generation. The presented framework…

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Labeling Sentences with Symbolic and Deictic Gestures via Semantic Similarity

Ariel Gjaci, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa · 2024

Co-speech gesture generation on artificial agents has gained attention recently, mainly when it is based on data-driven models. However, end-to-end methods often fail to generate co-speech gestures re…

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Nonlinear dynamic analysis of shear- and torsion-free rods using isogeometric discretization and outlier removal

Thi-Hoa Nguyen, Bruno A. Roccia, Rene R. Hiemstra, Cristian G. Gebhardt, Dominik Schillinger · 2023

In this paper, we present a discrete formulation of nonlinear shear- and torsion-free rods introduced by Gebhardt and Romero in [20] that uses isogeometric discretization and robust time integration. …

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Leveraging Pretrained Image-text Models for Improving Audio-Visual Learning

Saurabhchand Bhati, Jesus Villalba, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Thomas Thebaud, Najim Dehak · 2023

Visually grounded speech systems learn from paired images and their spoken captions. Recently, there have been attempts to utilize the visually grounded models trained from images and their correspond…

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Robot Grasping and Manipulation: A Prospective

Claudio Zito · 2023

``A simple handshake would give them away''. This is how Anthony Hopkins' fictional character, Dr Robert Ford, summarises a particular flaw of the 2016 science-fiction \emph{Westworld}'s hosts. In the…

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Augmenting endometriosis analysis from ultrasound data with deep learning

Adrian Balica, Jennifer Dai, Kayla Piiwaa, Xiao Qi, Ashlee N. Green, Nancy Phillips, Susan Egan, Ilker Hacihaliloglu · 2023

Endometriosis is a non-malignant disorder that affects 176 million women globally. Diagnostic delays result in severe dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility. Therefore, there …

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