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UniPASE: A Generative Model for Universal Speech Enhancement with High Fidelity and Low Hallucinations

Xiaobin Rong, Zheng Wang, Yushi Wang, Jun Gao, Jing Lu · 2026

Universal speech enhancement (USE) aims to restore speech signals from diverse distortions across multiple sampling rates. We propose UniPASE, an extension of the low-hallucination PASE framework tail…

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GAP-URGENet: A Generative-Predictive Fusion Framework for Universal Speech Enhancement

Xiaobin Rong, Yushi Wang, Zheng Wang, Jing Lu · 2026

We introduce GAP-URGENet, a generative-predictive fusion framework developed for Track 1 of the ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge. The system integrates a generative branch, which performs full-stack speec…

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Robotic Dexterous Manipulation via Anisotropic Friction Modulation using Passive Rollers

Ethan Fisk, Taeyoon Lee, Shenli Yuan · 2026

Controlling friction at the fingertip is fundamental to dexterous manipulation, yet remains difficult to realize in robotic hands. We present the design and analysis of a robotic fingertip equipped wi…

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Agent-Driven Autonomous Reinforcement Learning Research: Iterative Policy Improvement for Quadruped Locomotion

Nimesh Khandelwal, Shakti S. Gupta · 2026

This paper documents a case study in agent-driven autonomous reinforcement learning research for quadruped locomotion. The setting was not a fully self-starting research system. A human provided high-…

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StuPASE: Towards Low-Hallucination Studio-Quality Generative Speech Enhancement

Xiaobin Rong, Jun Gao, Zheng Wang, Mansur Yesilbursa, Kamil Wojcicki, Jing Lu · 2026

Achieving high perceptual quality without hallucination remains a challenge in generative speech enhancement (SE). A representative approach, PASE, is robust to hallucination but has limited perceptua…

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HMR-1: Hierarchical Massage Robot with Vision-Language-Model for Embodied Healthcare

Rongtao Xu, Mingming Yu, Xiaofeng Han, Yu Zhang, Kaiyi Hu, Zhe Feng, Zenghuang Fu, Changwei Wang, Weiliang Meng, Xiaopeng Zhang · 2026

The rapid advancement of Embodied Intelligence has opened transformative opportunities in healthcare, particularly in physical therapy and rehabilitation. However, critical challenges remain in develo…

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Stability-Guided Exploration for Diverse Motion Generation

Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Tilman Burghoff, Denis Shcherba, Armand Jordana, Marc Toussaint · 2026

Scaling up datasets is highly effective in improving the performance of deep learning models, including in the field of robot learning. However, data collection still proves to be a bottleneck. Approa…

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Kidney Ultrasound: Spatial-Efficient Volumetric Imaging via Template Guided Optimal Pivoting

Xihan Ma, Haichong Zhang · 2026

Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is a frontline tool for the diagnosis of kidney diseases. However, traditional freehand imaging procedure suffers from inconsistent, operator-dependent outcomes, lack o…

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TactAlign: Human-to-Robot Policy Transfer via Tactile Alignment

Youngsun Wi, Jessica Yin, Elvis Xiang, Akash Sharma, Jitendra Malik, Mustafa Mukadam, Nima Fazeli, Tess Hellebrekers · 2026

Human demonstrations collected by wearable devices (e.g., tactile gloves) provide fast and dexterous supervision for policy learning, and are guided by rich, natural tactile feedback. However, a key c…

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DiffusionCinema: Text-to-Aerial Cinematography

Valerii Serpiva, Artem Lykov, Jeffrin Sam, Aleksey Fedoseev, Dzmitry Tsetserukou · 2026

We propose a novel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) assisted creative capture system that leverages diffusion models to interpret high-level natural language prompts and automatically generate optimal f…

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Motion Planning for Safe Landing of a Human-Piloted Parafoil

Maximillian Fainkich, Kiril Solovey, Anna Clarke · 2025

Most skydiving accidents occur during the parafoil-piloting and landing stages and result from human lapses in judgment while piloting the parafoil. Training of novice pilots is protracted due to the …

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Edge-Native, Behavior-Adaptive Drone System for Wildlife Monitoring

Jenna Kline, Rugved Katole, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Christopher Stewart · 2025

Wildlife monitoring with drones must balance competing demands: approaching close enough to capture behaviorally-relevant video while avoiding stress responses that compromise animal welfare and data …

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One-shot Adaptation of Humanoid Whole-body Motion with Walking Priors

Hao Huang, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Shuaihang Yuan, Congcong Wen, Mengyu Wang, Anthony Tzes, Yi Fang · 2025

Whole-body humanoid motion represents a fundamental challenge in robotics, requiring balance, coordination, and adaptability to enable human-like behaviors. However, existing methods typically require…

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Single-Rod Brachiation Robot: Mechatronic Control Design and Validation of Prejump Phases

Juraj Lieskovsky, Hijiri Akahane, Aoto Osawa, Jaroslav Busek, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomas Vyhlidal · 2025

A complete mechatronic design of a minimal configuration brachiation robot is presented. The robot consists of a single rigid rod with gripper mechanisms attached to both ends. The grippers are used t…

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EKF-Based Fusion of Wi-Fi/LiDAR/IMU for Indoor Localization and Navigation

Zeyi Li, Zhe Tang, Kyeong Soo Kim, Sihao Li, Jeremy S. Smith · 2025

Conventional Wi-Fi received signal strength indicator (RSSI) fingerprinting cannot meet the growing demand for accurate indoor localization and navigation due to its lower accuracy, while solutions ba…

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BiNoMaP: Learning Category-Level Bimanual Non-Prehensile Manipulation Primitives

Huayi Zhou, Kui Jia · 2025

Non-prehensile manipulation, encompassing ungraspable actions such as pushing, poking, pivoting, and wrapping, remains underexplored due to its contact-rich and analytically intractable nature. We rev…

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Data-driven optimization of sparse sensor placement in thermal hydraulic experiments

Xicheng Wang, Yun. Feng, Dmitry Grishchenko, Pavel Kudinov, Ruifeng Tian, Sichao Tan · 2025

Thermal-Hydraulic (TH) experiments provide valuable insight into the physics of heat and mass transfer and qualified data for code development, calibration and validation. However, measurements are ty…

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Learning Pivoting Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations

Yuki Shirai, Kei Ota, Devesh K. Jha, Diego Romeres · 2025

Non-prehensile manipulation is challenging due to complex contact interactions between objects, the environment, and robots. Model-based approaches can efficiently generate complex trajectories of rob…

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Leveraging Extrinsic Dexterity for Occluded Grasping on Grasp Constraining Walls

Keita Kobashi, Masayoshi Tomizuka · 2025

This study addresses the problem of occluded grasping, where primary grasp configurations of an object are not available due to occlusion with environment. Simple parallel grippers often struggle with…

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DIGS: Dynamic CBCT Reconstruction using Deformation-Informed 4D Gaussian Splatting and a Low-Rank Free-Form Deformation Model

Yuliang Huang, Imraj Singh, Thomas Joyce, Kris Thielemans, Jamie R. McClelland · 2025

3D Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in radiotherapy but suffers from motion artifacts due to breathing. A common clinical approach mitigates this by sorting projections into respiratory phases and r…

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