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The emergence of 6th generation (6G) mobile networks brings new challenges in supporting high-mobility communications, particularly in addressing the issue of channel aging. While existing channel prediction methods offer improved accuracy…

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Navigation in turbulent environments is a fundamental challenge for biological and artificial microswimmers. While most existing studies focus on adapting motility or steering, the role of active morphological changes in navigation remains…

Holistic surgical scene segmentation in robot-assisted surgery (RAS) enables surgical residents to identify various anatomical tissues, articulated tools, and critical structures, such as veins and vessels. Given the firm intraoperative…

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Predicting surgical needle trajectories from endoscopic video is critical for robot-assisted suturing, enabling anticipatory planning, real-time guidance, and safer motion execution. Existing methods that directly learn motion distributions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huanrong Liu , Chunlin Tian , Tongyu Jia , Tailai Zhou , Qin Liu , Yu Gao , Yutong Ban , Yun Gu , Guy Rosman , Xin Ma , Qingbiao Li

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is sensitive to microstructural barriers, yet most existing methods either assume impermeable boundaries or estimate voxel-level parameters without recovering explicit interfaces. We present Spinverse, a…

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Robotic arms require precise, task-aware trajectory planning, yet sequence models that ignore motion structure often yield invalid or inefficient executions. We present a Path-based Transformer that encodes robot motion with a 3-grid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ahmed Alanazi , Duy Ho , Yugyung Lee

Accurate three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of guidewire shapes is crucial for precise navigation in robot-assisted endovascular interventions. Conventional 2D Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is limited by the absence of depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Tianliang Yao , Bingrui Li , Bo Lu , Zhiqiang Pei , Yixuan Yuan , Peng Qi

As a core technology of Intelligent Transportation System, traffic flow prediction has a wide range of applications. The fundamental challenge in traffic flow prediction is to effectively model the complex spatial-temporal dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jiawei Jiang , Chengkai Han , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jingyuan Wang

Accurate 3D shape abstraction from a single 2D image is a long-standing problem in computer vision and graphics. By leveraging a set of primitives to represent the target shape, recent methods have achieved promising results. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Di Liu , Xiang Yu , Meng Ye , Qilong Zhangli , Zhuowei Li , Zhixing Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Endoluminal surgery offers a minimally invasive option for early-stage gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancers but is limited by surgical tools and a steep learning curve. Robotic systems, particularly continuum robots, provide flexible…

This paper introduces a novel transformer-based network architecture, FlowFormer, along with the Masked Cost Volume AutoEncoding (MCVA) for pretraining it to tackle the problem of optical flow estimation. FlowFormer tokenizes the 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhaoyang Huang , Xiaoyu Shi , Chao Zhang , Qiang Wang , Yijin Li , Hongwei Qin , Jifeng Dai , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

All tables can be represented as grids. Based on this observation, we propose GridFormer, a novel approach for interpreting unconstrained table structures by predicting the vertex and edge of a grid. First, we propose a flexible table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Pengyuan Lyu , Weihong Ma , Hongyi Wang , Yuechen Yu , Chengquan Zhang , Kun Yao , Yang Xue , Jingdong Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Moein Shariatnia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Ehsan Adeli , Dorit Merhof

Minimally invasive medical procedures, such as endovascular catheterization, have drastically reduced procedure time and associated complications. However, many regions inside the body, such as in the brain vasculature, still remain…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Lucio Pancaldi , Pietro Dirix , Adele Fanelli , Diego Ghezzi , Mahmut Selman Sakar

We introduce a shape-sensitive loss function for catheter and guidewire segmentation and utilize it in a vision transformer network to establish a new state-of-the-art result on a large-scale X-ray images dataset. We transform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Chayun Kongtongvattana , Baoru Huang , Jingxuan Kang , Hoan Nguyen , Olajide Olufemi , Anh Nguyen

Recently, a variety of vision transformers have been developed as their capability of modeling long-range dependency. In current transformer-based backbones for medical image segmentation, convolutional layers were replaced with pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Huimin Huang , Shiao Xie1 , Lanfen Lin , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong

Predicting the future movements of surrounding vehicles is essential for ensuring the safe operation and efficient navigation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in urban traffic environments. Existing vehicle trajectory prediction methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yuansheng Lian , Ke Zhang , Meng Li

Soft robots, distinguished by their inherent compliance and continuum structures, present unique modeling challenges, especially when subjected to significant external loads such as gravity and payloads. In this study, we introduce an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yu Mei , Shangyuan Yuan , Xinda Qi , Preston Fairchild , Xiaobo Tan

Transformer-based architectures have advanced medical image analysis by effectively modeling long-range dependencies, yet they often struggle in 3D settings due to substantial memory overhead and insufficient capture of fine-grained local…