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Temporal Difference Calibration in Sequential Tasks: Application to Vision-Language-Action Models

Shelly Francis-Meretzki, Mirco Mutti, Yaniv Romano, Aviv Tamar · 2026

Recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotics have highlighted the importance of reliable uncertainty quantification in sequential tasks. However, assessing and improving calibra…

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Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve Expansion for Fluid Antenna Systems: Information-Theoretic Optimal Channel Compression and Outage Analysis

Tuo Wu · 2026

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) achieve spatial diversity by dynamically switching among $N$ densely packed ports, but the resulting spatially correlated Rayleigh channels render exact outage analysis int…

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GenMFSR: Generative Multi-Frame Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

Harshana Weligampola, Joshua Peter Ebenezer, Weidi Liu, Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Sreenithy Chandran, Seok-Jun Lee, Hamid Rahim Sheikh · 2026

Camera pipelines receive raw Bayer-format frames that need to be denoised, demosaiced, and often super-resolved. Multiple frames are captured to utilize natural hand tremors and enhance resolution. Mu…

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk · 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to …

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TopoGate: Quality-Aware Topology-Stabilized Gated Fusion for Longitudinal Low-Dose CT New-Lesion Prediction

Seungik Cho · 2026

Longitudinal low-dose CT follow-ups vary in noise, reconstruction kernels, and registration quality. These differences destabilize subtraction images and can trigger false new lesion alarms. We presen…

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StepNav: Structured Trajectory Priors for Efficient and Multimodal Visual Navigation

Xubo Luo, Aodi Wu, Haodong Han, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu, Ruisuo Wang · 2026

Visual navigation is fundamental to autonomous systems, yet generating reliable trajectories in cluttered and uncertain environments remains a core challenge. Recent generative models promise end-to-e…

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MIMO Array Calibration in Non-stationary Channels with Residual Surfaces and Slepian Spherical Harmonics

Oliver Kirkpatrick, Santiago Ozafrain, Christopher Gilliam, Beth Jelfs · 2026

The fundamental mechanism driving MIMO beamforming is the relative phases of signals departing the transmit array and arriving at the receive array. If a propagation channel affects all transmitted si…

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Uncertainty-Calibrated Explainable AI for Fetal Ultrasound Plane Classification

Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov · 2026

Fetal ultrasound standard-plane classification underpins reliable prenatal biometry and anomaly screening, yet real-world deployment is limited by domain shift, image noise, and poor calibration of pr…

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part II: Wide-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten · 2025

Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coup…

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part I: Narrow-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten · 2025

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) envisioned for 6G enable high-resolution sensing. However, the ELAAs worked in extremely high frequency will push operation into the near-field region, whe…

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State-Space Averaging Revisited via Reconstruction Operators

Yuxin Yang, Hang Zhou, Hourong Song, Branislav Hredzak · 2025

This paper presents an operator-theoretic reconstruction of an equivalent continuous-time LTI model from an exact sampled-data (Poincar\'e-map) baseline of a piecewise-linear switching system. The reb…

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Channel State Information Preprocessing for CSI-based Physical-Layer Authentication Using Reconciliation

Atsu Kokuvi Angelo Passah, Rodrigo C. de Lamare, Arsenia Chorti · 2025

This paper introduces an adaptive preprocessing technique to enhance the accuracy of channel state information-based physical layer authentication (CSI-PLA) alleviating CSI variations and inconsistenc…

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Multi-Rigid-Body Approximation of Human Hands with Application to Digital Twin

Bin Zhao, Yiwen Lu, Haohua Zhu, Xiao Li, Sheng Yi · 2025

Human hand simulation plays a critical role in digital twin applications, requiring models that balance anatomical fidelity with computational efficiency. We present a complete pipeline for constructi…

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Near Field Tapering with Slepian Window: Balancing the Range Angle Sidelobe Trade off

Ahmed Hussain, Ahmed Sultan, Asmaa Abdallah, Abdulkadir Celik, Ahmed M. Eltawil · 2025

Near-field beamforming enables target discrimination in both range (axial) and angle (lateral) dimensions. Elevated sidelobes along either dimension, however, increase susceptibility to interference a…

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DPsurv: Dual-Prototype Evidential Fusion for Uncertainty-Aware and Interpretable Whole-Slide Image Survival Prediction

Yucheng Xing, Ling Huang, Jingying Ma, Ruping Hong, Jiangdong Qiu, Pei Liu, Kai He, Huazhu Fu, Mengling Feng · 2025

Pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) are widely used for cancer survival analysis because of their comprehensive histopathological information at both cellular and tissue levels, enabling quantitative,…

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Wohlhart's Three-Loop Mechanism: An Overconstrained and Shaky Linkage

Andreas Mueller · 2025

This paper revisits a three-loop spatial linkage that was proposed in an ARK 2004 paper by Karl Wohlhart (as extension of a two-loop linkage proposed by Eddie Baker in 1980) and later analyzed in an A…

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RDDM: Practicing RAW Domain Diffusion Model for Real-world Image Restoration

Yan Chen, Yi Wen, Wei Li, Junchao Liu, Yong Guo, Jie Hu, Xinghao Chen · 2025

We present the RAW domain diffusion model (RDDM), an end-to-end diffusion model that restores photo-realistic images directly from the sensor RAW data. While recent sRGB-domain diffusion methods achie…

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Smart Video Capsule Endoscopy: Raw Image-Based Localization for Enhanced GI Tract Investigation

Oliver Bause, Julia Werner, Paul Palomero Bernardo, Oliver Bringmann · 2025

For many real-world applications involving low-power sensor edge devices deep neural networks used for image classification might not be suitable. This is due to their typically large model size and r…

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Basis Expansion Extrapolation based Long-Term Channel Prediction for Massive MIMO OTFS Systems

Yanfeng Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yujie Liu, Yong Liang Guan, David Gonzalez G., Vincent K. N. Lau · 2025

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) combined with orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising technique for high-mobility scenarios. However, its performance could…

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NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte, Zihao Lu, Xiangyu Kong, Xiaoxia Xing, Fan Wang, Suejin Han, MinKyu Park, Tianyu Zhang, Xin Luo, Yeda Chen, Dong Liu, Li Pang, Yuhang Yang, Hongzhong Wang, Xiangyong Cao, Ruixuan Jiang, Senyan Xu, Siyuan Jiang, Xueyang Fu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Tianyu Hao, Yuhong He, Ruoqi Li, Yueqi Yang, Xiang Yu, Guanlan Hong, Minmin Yi, Yuanjia Chen, Liwen Zhang, Zijie Jin, Cheng Li, Lian Liu, Wei Song, Heng Sun, Yubo Wang, Jinghua Wang, Jiajie Lu, Watchara Ruangsan · 2025

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Restoration and Super-Resolution could be e…

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