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Modern autonomous driving system is characterized as modular tasks in sequential order, i.e., perception, prediction, and planning. In order to perform a wide diversity of tasks and achieve advanced-level intelligence, contemporary…

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Quantification of real-time informal feedback delivered by an experienced surgeon to a trainee during surgery is important for skill improvements in surgical training. Such feedback in the live operating room is inherently multimodal,…

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In order to provide the right type of assistance at the right time, computer-assisted surgery systems need context awareness. To achieve this, methods for surgical workflow analysis are crucial. Currently, convolutional neural networks…

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Accurate vehicle trajectory prediction is an unsolved problem in autonomous driving with various open research questions. State-of-the-art approaches regress trajectories either in a one-shot or step-wise manner. Although one-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Faris Janjoš , Max Keller , Maxim Dolgov , J. Marius Zöllner

Active perception in vision-based robotic manipulation aims to move the camera toward more informative observation viewpoints, thereby providing high-quality perceptual inputs for downstream tasks. Most existing active perception methods…

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Reliability of SLAM systems is considered one of the critical requirements in modern autonomous systems. This directed the efforts to developing many state-of-the-art systems, creating challenging datasets, and introducing rigorous metrics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Islam Ali , Hong Zhang

Despite advancements in robotic-assisted surgery, automating complex tasks like suturing remain challenging due to the need for adaptability and precision. Learning-based approaches, particularly reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation…

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Humans perform exquisite sensorimotor skills, both individually and in teams, from athletes performing rhythmic gymnastics to everyday tasks like carrying a cup of coffee. The "predictive brain" framework suggests that mastering these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-10 Marta Russo , Antonella Maselli , Dagmar Sternad , Giovanni Pezzulo

Panoramic X-ray is a simple and effective tool for diagnosing dental diseases in clinical practice. When deep learning models are developed to assist dentist in interpreting panoramic X-rays, most of their performance suffers from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zijian Cai , Xinquan Yang , Xuguang Li , Xiaoling Luo , Xuechen Li , Linlin Shen , He Meng , Yongqiang Deng

Objective: Surgical activity recognition is a fundamental step in computer-assisted interventions. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in methods for automatic recognition of fine-grained gestures in robotic surgery focusing on recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Beatrice van Amsterdam , Matthew J. Clarkson , Danail Stoyanov

Machine learning and deep learning methods have become essential for computer-assisted prediction in medicine, with a growing number of applications also in the field of mammography. Typically these algorithms are trained for a specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Maria Wimmer , Gert Sluiter , David Major , Dimitrios Lenis , Astrid Berg , Theresa Neubauer , Katja Bühler

For robot-assisted surgery, an accurate surgical report reflects clinical operations during surgery and helps document entry tasks, post-operative analysis and follow-up treatment. It is a challenging task due to many complex and diverse…

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Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision-making,…

The paradigm of robot-assisted surgery is shifting toward data-driven autonomy, where policies learned via Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Imitation Learning (IL) enable the execution of complex tasks. However, these ``black-box" policies…

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Automated sports skill assessment requires capturing fundamental movement patterns that distinguish expert from novice performance, yet current video sampling methods disrupt the temporal continuity essential for proficiency evaluation. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Edoardo Bianchi , Antonio Liotta

Video surgery timelines are an important part of tool-assisted surgeries, as they allow surgeons to quickly focus on key parts of the procedure. Current methods involve the surgeon filling out a post-operation (OP) report, which is often…

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Accurately modeling the relationships between skills is a crucial part of human resources processes such as recruitment and employee development. Yet, no benchmarks exist to evaluate such methods directly. We construct and release…

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In this work, we show a methodology aimed to improve the quality of the assessment process for subjects related to basic programming. The method takes into account the relevance of the items and the students answers to follow different…

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This paper presents a novel concept to support physically impaired humans in daily object manipulation tasks with a robot. Given a user's manipulation sequence, we propose a predictive model that uniquely casts the user's sequential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Theodoros Stouraitis , Michael Gienger

Surgical skill directly affects surgical procedure outcomes; thus, effective training is needed to ensure satisfactory results. Many objective assessment metrics have been developed and some are widely used in surgical training simulators.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Marzieh Ershad , Robert Rege , Ann Majewicz Fey