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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa ยท 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions โ€ฆ

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Lightweight Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous Attitude Synchronization

Peter Stadler, Alexander Meinert, Niklas Baldauf, Alen Turnwald ยท 2026

This work introduces two lightweight model predictive control (MPC) approaches for attitude tracking with reaction wheels during spacecraft rendezvous synchronization. Both approaches are based on a nโ€ฆ

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BEACON: Language-Conditioned Navigation Affordance Prediction under Occlusion

Xinyu Gao, Gang Chen, Javier Alonso-Mora ยท 2026

Language-conditioned local navigation requires a robot to infer a nearby traversable target location from its current observation and an open-vocabulary, relational instruction. Existing vision-languaโ€ฆ

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Real-Time Quasi-Static Modeling of UAV Tether Aerodynamics

Max Beffert, Andreas Zell ยท 2025

One of the main limitations of multirotor UAVs is their short flight time due to battery constraints. A practical solution for continuous operation is to power the drone from the ground via a tether. โ€ฆ

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Whole-Body Inverse Dynamics MPC for Legged Loco-Manipulation

Lukas Molnar, Jin Cheng, Gabriele Fadini, Dongho Kang, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Stelian Coros ยท 2025

Loco-manipulation demands coordinated whole-body motion to manipulate objects effectively while maintaining locomotion stability, presenting significant challenges for both planning and control. In thโ€ฆ

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CRISP-SAM2: SAM2 with Cross-Modal Interaction and Semantic Prompting for Multi-Organ Segmentation

Xinlei Yu, Changmiao Wang, Hui Jin, Ahmed Elazab, Gangyong Jia, Xiang Wan, Changqing Zou, Ruiquan Ge ยท 2025

Multi-organ medical segmentation is a crucial component of medical image processing, essential for doctors to make accurate diagnoses and develop effective treatment plans. Despite significant progresโ€ฆ

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Unified Medical Image Tokenizer for Autoregressive Synthesis and Understanding

Chenglong Ma, Yuanfeng Ji, Jin Ye, Zilong Li, Chenhui Wang, Junzhi Ning, Wei Li, Lihao Liu, Qiushan Guo, Tianbin Li, Junjun He, Hongming Shan ยท 2025

Autoregressive modeling has driven major advances in multimodal AI, yet its application to medical imaging remains constrained by the absence of a unified image tokenizer that simultaneously preservesโ€ฆ

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WaLRUS: Wavelets for Long-range Representation Using SSMs

Hossein Babaei, Mel White, Sina Alemohammad, Richard G. Baraniuk ยท 2025

State-Space Models (SSMs) have proven to be powerful tools for modeling long-range dependencies in sequential data. While the recent method known as HiPPO has demonstrated strong performance, and formโ€ฆ

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SatAOI: Delimitating Area of Interest for Swing-Arm Troweling Robot for Construction

Jia-Rui Lin, Shaojie Zhou, Peng Pan, Ruijia Cai, Gang Chen ยท 2025

In concrete troweling for building construction, robots can significantly reduce workload and improve automation level. However, as a primary task of coverage path planning (CPP) for troweling, delimiโ€ฆ

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Interaction-Aware Model Predictive Decision-Making for Socially-Compliant Autonomous Driving in Mixed Urban Traffic Scenarios

Balint Varga, Thomas Brand, Marcus Schmitz, Ehsan Hashemi ยท 2025

Autonomous vehicles must negotiate with pedestrians in ways that are both safe and socially compliant. We present an interaction-aware model predictive decision-making (IAMPDM) framework that integratโ€ฆ

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SASVi -- Segment Any Surgical Video

Ssharvien Kumar Sivakumar, Yannik Frisch, Amin Ranem, Anirban Mukhopadhyay ยท 2025

Purpose: Foundation models, trained on multitudes of public datasets, often require additional fine-tuning or re-prompting mechanisms to be applied to visually distinct target domains such as surgicalโ€ฆ

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Radiologist-in-the-Loop Self-Training for Generalizable CT Metal Artifact Reduction

Chenglong Ma, Zilong Li, Yuanlin Li, Jing Han, Junping Zhang, Yi Zhang, Jiannan Liu, Hongming Shan ยท 2025

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images can significantly degrade image quality and impede accurate diagnosis. Supervised metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods, trained using simulated datโ€ฆ

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Experimental implementation of an economic model predictive control for froth flotation

Paulina Quintanilla, Daniel Navia, Stephen Neethling, Pablo Brito-Parada ยท 2024

We present the implementation of a novel economic model predictive control (E-MPC) strategy for froth flotation, the largest tonnage mineral separation process. A previously calibrated and validated dโ€ฆ

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GreenLight-Gym: Reinforcement learning benchmark environment for control of greenhouse production systems

Bart van Laatum, Eldert J. van Henten, Sjoerd Boersma ยท 2024

This study presents GreenLight-Gym, a new, fast, open-source benchmark environment for developing reinforcement learning (RL) methods in greenhouse crop production control. Built on the state-of-the-aโ€ฆ

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Custom Non-Linear Model Predictive Control for Obstacle Avoidance in Indoor and Outdoor Environments

Lara Laban, Mariusz Wzorek, Piotr Rudol, Tommy Persson ยท 2024

Navigating complex environments requires Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous systems to perform trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance in real-time. While many control strategies have eโ€ฆ

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CusADi: A GPU Parallelization Framework for Symbolic Expressions and Optimal Control

Se Hwan Jeon, Seungwoo Hong, Ho Jae Lee, Charles Khazoom, Sangbae Kim ยท 2024

The parallelism afforded by GPUs presents significant advantages in training controllers through reinforcement learning (RL). However, integrating model-based optimization into this process remains chโ€ฆ

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RALTPER: A Risk-Aware Local Trajectory Planner for Complex Environment with Gaussian Uncertainty

Cheng Chi ยท 2024

In this paper, we propose a novel Risk-Aware Local Trajectory Planner (RALTPER) for autonomous vehicles in complex environments characterized by Gaussian uncertainty. The proposed method integrates riโ€ฆ

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Evaluation of Zadoff-Chu, Kasami and Chirp based encoding schemes for Acoustic Local Positioning Systems

Santiago Murano, Carmen Perez-Rubio, David Gualda, Fernando J. Alvarez, Teodoro Aguilera, Carlos de Marziani ยท 2024

The task of determining the physical coordinates of a target in indoor environments is still a key factor for many applications including people and robot navigation, user tracking, location-based advโ€ฆ

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SASA: Saliency-Aware Self-Adaptive Snapshot Compressive Imaging

Yaping Zhao, Edmund Y. Lam ยท 2023

The ability of snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) systems to efficiently capture high-dimensional (HD) data depends on the advent of novel optical designs to sample the HD data as two-dimensional (2D)โ€ฆ

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Prompted Contextual Transformer for Incomplete-View CT Reconstruction

Chenglong Ma, Zilong Li, Junjun He, Junping Zhang, Yi Zhang, Hongming Shan ยท 2023

Incomplete-view computed tomography (CT) can shorten the data acquisition time and allow scanning of large objects, including sparse-view and limited-angle scenarios, each with various settings, such โ€ฆ

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