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Molecular communication (MC) is an emerging paradigm that takes inspiration from biological processes, enabling communication at the nanoscale and facilitating the development of the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). Traditional models…

Beamforming is a powerful tool designed to enhance speech signals from the direction of a target source. Computing the beamforming filter requires estimating spatial covariance matrices (SCMs) of the source and noise signals. Time-frequency…

We investigate the propagation of infinitesimal harmonic mechanical waves emitted from a boundary with variable velocity and arriving at a stationary observer. In the classical Doppler effect, $X_\mathrm{s}(t) = vt$ is the location of the…

This paper proposes the Transition Motion Tensor, a data-driven framework that creates novel and physically accurate transitions outside of the motion dataset. It enables simulated characters to adopt new motion skills efficiently and…

This paper presents a control interface to translate the residual body motions of individuals living with severe disabilities, into control commands for body-machine interaction. A custom, wireless, wearable multi-sensor network is used to…

Due to the visual ambiguity, purely kinematic formulations on monocular human motion capture are often physically incorrect, biomechanically implausible, and can not reconstruct accurate interactions. In this work, we focus on exploiting…

Gait recognition is a valuable biometric task that enables the identification of individuals from a distance based on their walking patterns. However, it remains limited by the lack of large-scale labeled datasets and the difficulty of…

Machine learning has enabled the development of powerful systems capable of editing images from natural language instructions. However, in many common scenarios it is difficult for users to specify precise image transformations with text…

Electromagnetic sources relying on spontaneous emission are difficult to characterize without a proper framework due to the partial spatial coherence of the emitted fields. In this paper, we propose to characterize emitters of any shape…

We explore active audio-visual separation for dynamic sound sources, where an embodied agent moves intelligently in a 3D environment to continuously isolate the time-varying audio stream being emitted by an object of interest. The agent…

We introduce MusicInfuser, an approach that aligns pre-trained text-to-video diffusion models to generate high-quality dance videos synchronized with specified music tracks. Rather than training a multimodal audio-video or audio-motion…

Piezo-stepper actuators are used in many nanopositioning systems due to their high resolution, high stiffness, fast response, and the ability to position a mover over an infinite stroke by means of motion reminiscent of walking. The aim of…

Existing diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results in human motion editing. However, these methods often exhibit significant ghosting and body distortion in unseen in-the-wild cases. In this paper, we introduce…

The neural encoding by biological sensors of flying insects, which prefilters stimulus data before sending it to the central nervous system in the form of voltage spikes, enables sensing capabilities that are computationally low-cost while…

This study introduces a novel point-wise diffusion model that processes spatio-temporal points independently to efficiently predict complex physical systems with shape variations. This methodological contribution lies in applying forward…

Motion transfer from the driving to the source portrait remains a key challenge in the portrait animation. Current diffusion-based approaches condition only on the driving motion, which fails to capture source-to-driving correspondences and…

Efficiently estimating system dynamics from data is essential for minimizing data collection costs and improving model performance. This work addresses the challenge of designing future control inputs to maximize information gain, thereby…

Stress is a complex issue with wide-ranging physical and psychological impacts on human daily performance. Specifically, acute stress detection is becoming a valuable application in contextual human understanding. Two common approaches to…

In this paper, we introduce a novel device architecture that merges memristive devices with light-sensing surfaces, for energy-efficient motion recognition at the edge. Our light-sensing surface captures motion data through in-sensor…

Jupyter notebooks are increasingly being adopted by teachers to deliver interactive practical sessions to their students. Notebooks come with many attractive features, such as the ability to combine textual explanations, multimedia content,…