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A Vehicle Routing Problem for Human-Centered Electric Mobility

Mostafa Emam, Bjorn Martens, Thomas Rottmann, Matthias Gerdts · 2026

In this paper, we present the Electric Mobility Dial-a-Ride Problem (EM-DARP), which extends the Electric Vehicle Dial-a-Ride Problem (EV-DARP) to better accommodate human-focused mobility services. T…

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DINO-Explorer: Active Underwater Discovery via Ego-Motion Compensated Semantic Predictive Coding

Yuhan Jin, Nayari Marie Lessa, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez, Melvin Laux, Lucas Amparo Barbosa, Frank Kirchner, Rebecca Adam · 2026

Marine ecosystem degradation necessitates continuous, scientifically selective underwater monitoring. However, most autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operate as passive data loggers, capturing exh…

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Grounded World Model for Semantically Generalizable Planning

Quanyi Li, Lan Feng, Haonan Zhang, Wuyang Li, Letian Wang, Alexandre Alahi, Harold Soh · 2026

In Model Predictive Control (MPC), world models predict the future outcomes of various action proposals, which are then scored to guide the selection of the optimal action. For visuomotor MPC, the sco…

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Search-MIND: Training-Free Multi-Modal Medical Image Registration

Boya Wang, Ruizhe Li, Chao Chen, Xin Chen · 2026

Multi-modal image registration plays a critical role in precision medicine but faces challenges from non-linear intensity relationships and local optima. While deep learning models enable rapid infere…

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MC-GenRef: Annotation-free mammography microcalcification segmentation with generative posterior refinement

Hyunwoo Cho, Yeeun Kwon, Min Jung Kim, Yangmo Yoo · 2026

Microcalcification (MC) analysis is clinically important in screening mammography because clustered puncta can be an early sign of malignancy, yet dense MC segmentation remains challenging: targets ar…

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DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA

Yi Chen, Yuying Ge, Hui Zhou, Mingyu Ding, Yixiao Ge, Xihui Liu · 2026

The development of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has been significantly accelerated by pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, most existing end-to-end VLAs treat the VLM primarily a…

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Viewport-based Neural 360{\deg} Image Compression

Jingwei Liao, Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt, Zhisheng Yan · 2026

Given the popularity of 360{\deg} images on social media platforms, 360{\deg} image compression becomes a critical technology for media storage and transmission. Conventional 360{\deg} image compressi…

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Rewarding DINO: Predicting Dense Rewards with Vision Foundation Models

Pierre Krack, Tobias Julg, Wolfram Burgard, Florian Walter · 2026

Well-designed dense reward functions in robot manipulation not only indicate whether a task is completed but also encode progress along the way. Generally, designing dense rewards is challenging and u…

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LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestion

Jiangran Lyu, Kai Liu, Xuheng Zhang, Haoran Liao, Yusen Feng, Wenxuan Zhu, Tingrui Shen, Jiayi Chen, Jiazhao Zhang, Yifei Dong, Wenbo Cui, Senmao Qi, Shuo Wang, Yixin Zheng, Mi Yan, Xuesong Shi, Haoran Li, Dongbin Zhao, Ming-Yu Liu, Zhizheng Zhang, Li Yi, Yizhou Wang, He Wang · 2026

Recent robot foundation models largely rely on large-scale behavior cloning, which imitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous embodied data. While t…

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Self-Supervised Learning for Speaker Recognition: A study and review

Theo Lepage, Reda Dehak · 2026

Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them…

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DINO-Mix: Distilling Foundational Knowledge with Cross-Domain CutMix for Semi-supervised Class-imbalanced Medical Image Segmentation

Xinyu Liu, Guolei Sun · 2026

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a critical paradigm for medical image segmentation, mitigating the immense cost of dense annotations. However, prevailing SSL frameworks are fundamentally…

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Benchmarking Affordance Generalization with BusyBox

Dean Fortier, Timothy Adamson, Tess Hellebrekers, Teresa LaScala, Kofi Ennin, Michael Murray, Andrey Kolobov, Galen Mullins · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been attracting the attention of researchers and practitioners thanks to their promise of generalization. Although single-task policies still offer competitive…

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DINO-AD: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection with Frozen DINO-V3 Features

Jiayu Huo, Jingyuan Hong, Liyun Chen · 2026

Unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) in medical images aims to identify abnormal regions without relying on pixel-level annotations, which is crucial for scalable and label-efficient diagnostic systems…

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Learning to Dial-a-Ride: A Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Electric Dial-a-Ride Problem

Sten Elling Tingstad Jacobsen, Attila Lischka, Balazs Kulcsar, Anders Lindman · 2026

Urban mobility systems are transitioning toward electric, on-demand services, creating operational challenges for fleet management under energy and service-quality constraints. The Electric Dial-a-Rid…

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DeFM: Learning Foundation Representations from Depth for Robotics

Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Mayank Mittal, Fan Yang, Alexander Hansson, Amir Bar, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter · 2026

Depth sensors are widely deployed across robotic platforms, and advances in fast, high-fidelity depth simulation have enabled robotic policies trained on depth observations to achieve robust sim-to-re…

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Operationalising DAO Sustainability KPIs: A Multi-Chain Dashboard for Governance Analytics

Silvio Meneguzzo, Claudio Schifanella, Valentina Gatteschi, Giuseppe Destefanis · 2026

We present DAO Portal, a production-grade analytics pipeline and interactive dashboard for assessing the sustainability of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) through Key Performance Indicat…

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DroneVLA: VLA based Aerial Manipulation

Fawad Mehboob, Monijesu James, Amir Habel, Jeffrin Sam, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Dzmitry Tsetserukou · 2026

As aerial platforms evolve from passive observers to active manipulators, the challenge shifts toward designing intuitive interfaces that allow non-expert users to command these systems naturally. Thi…

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New Formulations and Discretization Insights for the Electric Autonomous Dial-a-Ride Problem

Boshuai Zhao, Adam Abdin, Jakob Puchinger · 2026

The Electric Autonomous Dial-a-Ride Problem (E-ADARP) involves routing and scheduling electric autonomous vehicles under battery capacity and partial recharging constraints, aiming to minimize total t…

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YCB-Handovers Dataset: Analyzing Object Weight Impact on Human Handovers to Adapt Robotic Handover Motion

Parag Khanna, Karen Jane Dsouza, Chunyu Wang, M{aa}rten Bjorkman, Christian Smith · 2025

This paper introduces the YCB-Handovers dataset, capturing motion data of 2771 human-human handovers with varying object weights. The dataset aims to bridge a gap in human-robot collaboration research…

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TokCom-UEP: Semantic Importance-Matched Unequal Error Protection for Resilient Image Transmission

Kaizheng Zhang, Zuolin Jin, Zhihang Cheng, Ming Zeng, Li Qiao, Zesong Fei · 2025

Based on the provided LaTeX code, here is the metadata for the submission form: Title: TokCom-UEP: Semantic Importance-Matched Unequal Error Protection for Resilient Image Transmission Author(s): Kaiz…

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