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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology being considered for future wireless communications due to its ability to control signal propagation. This paper considers the joint active and passive beamforming problem for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Fangzhou Wang , Hongbin Li , Jun Fang

We investigate the use of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a millimeter-wave (mmWave) vehicular communication network. An intelligent reflecting surface consists of passive elements, which can reflect the incoming signals with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Dilin Dampahalage , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , MattiLatva-aho

Together with the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) becomes a promising technology for many research areas. Recently, deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ling Pei , Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Fanyi Xiao , Qi Wu , Wenxian Yu , Robert Qiu

This paper presents a new artificial market simulation platform, PAMS: Platform for Artificial Market Simulations. PAMS is developed as a Python-based simulator that is easily integrated with deep learning and enabling various simulation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-09-20 Masanori Hirano , Ryosuke Takata , Kiyoshi Izumi

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yaqiong Zhao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xinquan Ye , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Passive acoustic mapping (PAM) is a key imaging technique for characterizing cavitation activity in therapeutic ultrasound applications. Recent model-based beamforming algorithms offer high reconstruction quality and strong physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Tatiana Gelvez-Barrera , Barbara Nicolas , Bruno Gilles , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Preference-aligned robot navigation in human environments is typically achieved through learning-based approaches, utilizing user feedback or demonstrations for personalization. However, personal preferences are subject to change and might…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jorge de Heuvel , Tharun Sethuraman , Maren Bennewitz

Acquiring an anatomical map from position data is important for medical applications where catheters interact with soft tissues. To improve autonomous navigation in these settings, we require information beyond nonparametric maps typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Michael R. Walker

This paper focuses on studying orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided systems. Unlike most prior works assuming continuous phase shifts, we employ the practical setup where only a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

The promising coverage and spectral efficiency gains of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are attracting increasing interest. In order to realize these surfaces in practice, however, several challenges need to be addressed. One of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Abdelrahman Taha , Yu Zhang , Faris B. Mismar , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Shanglong Zhang , Arun L. Gain , Julian A. Norato

Parametric models of humans, faces, hands and animals have been widely used for a range of tasks such as image-based reconstruction, shape correspondence estimation, and animation. Their key strength is the ability to factor surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Keyang Zhou , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammer, which attacks legitimate transmissions has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. Thus, this paper exploits intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , Massimo Tornatore , Stefano Secci

Robotic manipulators are increasingly used to assist individuals with mobility impairments in object retrieval. However, the predominant joystick-based control interfaces can be challenging due to high precision requirements and unintuitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zitiantao Lin , Yongpeng Sang , Yang Ye

Objects we interact with and manipulate often share similar parts, such as handles, that allow us to transfer our actions flexibly due to their shared functionality. This work addresses the problem of transferring a grasp experience or a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ahmet Tekden , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Yasemin Bekiroglu

It will be increasingly common for robots to operate in cluttered human-centered environments such as homes, workplaces, and hospitals, where the robot is often tasked to maintain perception constraints, such as monitoring people or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qingxi Meng , Emiliano Flores , Thai Duong , Vaibhav Unhelkar , Lydia E. Kavraki

Most existing methods for motion planning of mobile robots involve generating collision-free trajectories. However, these methods focusing solely on contact avoidance may limit the robots' locomotion and can not be applied to tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Haokun Wang , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

Evaluating and updating the obstacle avoidance velocity for an autonomous robot in real-time ensures robustness against noise and disturbances. A passive damping controller can obtain the desired motion with a torque-controlled robot, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lukas Huber , Thibaud Trinca , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Aude Billard