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MAKO: Meta-Adaptive Koopman Operators for Learning-based Model Predictive Control of Parametrically Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Minghao Han, Kiwan Wong, Adrian Wing-Keung Law, Xunyuan Yin ยท 2025

In this work, we propose a meta-learning-based Koopman modeling and predictive control approach for nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. An adaptive deep meta-learning-based modeling approโ€ฆ

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Dual-Arm Hierarchical Planning for Laboratory Automation: Vibratory Sieve Shaker Operations

Haoran Xiao, Xue Wang, Huimin Lu, Zhiwen Zeng, Zirui Guo, Ziqi Ni, Yicong Ye, Wei Dai ยท 2025

This paper addresses the challenges of automating vibratory sieve shaker operations in a materials laboratory, focusing on three critical tasks: 1) dual-arm lid manipulation in 3 cm clearance spaces, โ€ฆ

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Musical Source Separation Bake-Off: Comparing Objective Metrics with Human Perception

Noah Jaffe, John Ashley Burgoyne ยท 2025

Music source separation aims to extract individual sound sources (e.g., vocals, drums, guitar) from a mixed music recording. However, evaluating the quality of separated audio remains challenging, as โ€ฆ

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Learning Contextually-Adaptive Rewards via Calibrated Features

Alexandra Forsey-Smerek, Julie Shah, Andreea Bobu ยท 2025

A key challenge in reward learning from human input is that desired agent behavior often changes based on context. For example, a robot must adapt to avoid a stove once it becomes hot. We observe thatโ€ฆ

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Quality Assessment of Noisy and Enhanced Speech with Limited Data: UWB-NTIS System for VoiceMOS 2024

Marie Kunesova, Ales Prazak, Jan Lehecka ยท 2025

We present a system for non-intrusive prediction of speech quality in noisy and enhanced speech, developed for Track 3 of the VoiceMOS 2024 Challenge. The task required estimating the ITU-T P.835 metrโ€ฆ

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Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments using Acceleration Obstacles

Asher Stern, Zvi Shiller ยท 2025

This paper addresses the issue of motion planning in dynamic environments by extending the concept of Velocity Obstacle and Nonlinear Velocity Obstacle to Acceleration Obstacle AO and Nonlinear Acceleโ€ฆ

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Learning-Based Autonomous Navigation, Benchmark Environments and Simulation Framework for Endovascular Interventions

Lennart Karstensen, Harry Robertshaw, Johannes Hatzl, Benjamin Jackson, Jens Langejurgen, Katharina Breininger, Christian Uhl, S.M.Hadi Sadati, Thomas Booth, Christos Bergeles, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich ยท 2024

Endovascular interventions are a life-saving treatment for many diseases, yet suffer from drawbacks such as radiation exposure and potential scarcity of proficient physicians. Robotic assistance durinโ€ฆ

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MedDet: Generative Adversarial Distillation for Efficient Cervical Disc Herniation Detection

Zeyu Zhang, Nengmin Yi, Shengbo Tan, Ying Cai, Yi Yang, Lei Xu, Qingtai Li, Zhang Yi, Daji Ergu, Yang Zhao ยท 2024

Cervical disc herniation (CDH) is a prevalent musculoskeletal disorder that significantly impacts health and requires labor-intensive analysis from experts. Despite advancements in automated detectionโ€ฆ

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A robust baro-radar-inertial odometry m-estimator for multicopter navigation in cities and forests

Rik Girod, Marco Hauswirth, Patrick Pfreundschuh, Mariano Biasio, Roland Siegwart ยท 2024

Search and rescue operations require mobile robots to navigate unstructured indoor and outdoor environments. In particular, actively stabilized multirotor drones need precise movement data to balance โ€ฆ

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BAKU: An Efficient Transformer for Multi-Task Policy Learning

Siddhant Haldar, Zhuoran Peng, Lerrel Pinto ยท 2024

Training generalist agents capable of solving diverse tasks is challenging, often requiring large datasets of expert demonstrations. This is particularly problematic in robotics, where each data pointโ€ฆ

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VIBESegmentator: Full Body MRI Segmentation for the NAKO and UK Biobank

Robert Graf, Paul-Soren Platzek, Evamaria Olga Riedel, Constanze Ramschutz, Sophie Starck, Hendrik Kristian Moller, Matan Atad, Henry Volzke, Robin Bulow, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Julia Rudebusch, Matthias Jung, Marco Reisert, Jakob Weiss, Maximilian Loffler, Fabian Bamberg, Bene Wiestler, Johannes C. Paetzold, Daniel Rueckert, Jan Stefan Kirschke ยท 2024

Objectives: To present a publicly available deep learning-based torso segmentation model that provides comprehensive voxel-wise coverage, including delineations that extend to the boundaries of anatomโ€ฆ

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MRSegmentator: Multi-Modality Segmentation of 40 Classes in MRI and CT

Hartmut Hantze, Lina Xu, Christian J. Mertens, Felix J. Dorfner, Leonhard Donle, Felix Busch, Avan Kader, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Nadine Bayerl, Nassir Navab, Daniel Rueckert, Julia Schnabel, Hugo JWL Aerts, Daniel Truhn, Fabian Bamberg, Jakob Wei{ss}, Christopher L. Schlett, Steffen Ringhof, Thoralf Niendorf, Tobias Pischon, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Tobias Nonnenmacher, Thomas Kroncke, Henry Volzke, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Klaus Maier-Hein, Mathias Prokop, Bram van Ginneken, Alessa Hering, Marcus R. Makowski, Lisa C. Adams, Keno K. Bressem ยท 2024

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a deep learning model for multi-organ segmentation of MRI scans. Materials and Methods: The model was trained on 1,200 manually annotated 3D axial MRI scans from theโ€ฆ

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"Don't forget to put the milk back!" Dataset for Enabling Embodied Agents to Detect Anomalous Situations

James F. Mullen Jr, Prasoon Goyal, Robinson Piramuthu, Michael Johnston, Dinesh Manocha, Reza Ghanadan ยท 2024

Home robots intend to make their users lives easier. Our work assists in this goal by enabling robots to inform their users of dangerous or unsanitary anomalies in their home. Some examples of these aโ€ฆ

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Recognition of Heat-Induced Food State Changes by Time-Series Use of Vision-Language Model for Cooking Robot

Naoaki Kanazawa, Kento Kawaharazuka, Yoshiki Obinata, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba ยท 2023

Cooking tasks are characterized by large changes in the state of the food, which is one of the major challenges in robot execution of cooking tasks. In particular, cooking using a stove to apply heat โ€ฆ

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Autonomous Guidance Navigation and Control of the VISORS Formation-Flying Mission

Tommaso Guffanti, Toby Bell, Samuel Y. W. Low, Mason Murray-Cooper, Simone D'Amico ยท 2023

Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms (VISORS) is a distributed telescope mission for high-resolution imaging of the Sun using two 6U CubeSats flying in formation in a Sun-synchroโ€ฆ

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Implementacion de un sistema IoT de bajo costo para el monitoreo de la calidad del aire en El Salvador

Omar Otoniel Flores-Cortez, Ronny Adalberto Cortez, Veronica Rosa ยท 2022

Environmental pollution is a factor that represents a significant health risk. In El Salvador, The entity in charge of monitoring air quality is the ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, currโ€ฆ

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ICASSP 2022 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge

Harishchandra Dubey, Vishak Gopal, Ross Cutler, Ashkan Aazami, Sergiy Matusevych, Sebastian Braun, Sefik Emre Eskimez, Manthan Thakker, Takuya Yoshioka, Hannes Gamper, Robert Aichner ยท 2022

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. This is the 4th DNS challenge, with the prevโ€ฆ

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Tube-Balloon Logic for the Exploration of Fluidic Control Elements

Jovanna A. Tracz, Lukas Wille, Dylan Pathiraja, Savita V. Kendre, Ron Pfisterer, Ethan Turett, Gus T. Teran, Christoffer K. Abrahamsson, Samuel E. Root, Won-Kyu Lee, Daniel J. Preston, Haihui Joy Jiang, George M. Whitesides, Markus P. Nemitz ยท 2022

The control of pneumatically driven soft robots typically requires electronics. Microcontrollers are connected to power electronics that switch valves and pumps on and off. As a recent alternative, flโ€ฆ

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DNSMOS P.835: A Non-Intrusive Perceptual Objective Speech Quality Metric to Evaluate Noise Suppressors

Chandan K A Reddy, Vishak Gopal, Ross Cutler ยท 2021

Human subjective evaluation is the gold standard to evaluate speech quality optimized for human perception. Perceptual objective metrics serve as a proxy for subjective scores. We have recently develoโ€ฆ

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High-resolution Multi-spectral Imaging with Diffractive Lenses and Learned Reconstruction

Figen S. Oktem, Oguzhan Fatih Kar, Can Deniz Bezek, Farzad Kamalabadi ยท 2020

Spectral imaging is a fundamental diagnostic technique with widespread application. Conventional spectral imaging approaches have intrinsic limitations on spatial and spectral resolutions due to the pโ€ฆ

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