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Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in solving the text-promptable object counting problem. Representative methods typically specify text prompts with object category information in images.…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is emerging as a key enabler for spectrum-efficient and hardware-converged wireless networks. However, classical radar systems within ISAC architectures face fundamental limitations under low…

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Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) is an active research area in the audio domain and has seen a lot of progress in the past years. However, many of the existing approaches achieve high accuracy by relying on domain-specific features…

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Quantitative acoustic microscopy (QAM) is a cutting-edge imaging modality that leverages very high-frequency ultrasound to characterize the acoustic and mechanical properties of biological tissues at microscopic resolutions. Radio-frequency…

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Quantum resources enable secure quantum sensing (SQS) of remote systems, offering significant advantages in precision and security. However, decoherence in the quantum communication channel and during the evolution of quantum states can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Muhammad Talha Rahim , Saif Al-Kuwari , Mahmood Irtiza Hussain , Asad Ali

In this paper, we propose a method for online domain-incremental learning of acoustic scene classification from a sequence of different locations. Simply training a deep learning model on a sequence of different locations leads to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Manjunath Mulimani , Annamaria Mesaros

The Quantum Angle Generator (QAG) is a new full Quantum Machine Learning model designed to generate accurate images on current Noise Intermediate Scale (NISQ) Quantum devices. Variational quantum circuits form the core of the QAG model, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Florian Rehm , Sofia Vallecorsa , Kerstin Borras , Dirk Krücker , Michele Grossi , Valle Varo

In this work, we compare the performance of three selected techniques in open set acoustic scenes classification (ASC). We test thresholding of the softmax output of a deep network classifier, which is the most popular technique nowadays…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Zuzanna Kwiatkowska , Beniamin Kalinowski , Michał Kośmider , Krzysztof Rykaczewski

Quantum computing is a game-changing technology for global academia, research centers and industries including computational science, mathematics, finance, pharmaceutical, materials science, chemistry and cryptography. Although it has seen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 He-Liang Huang , Xiao-Yue Xu , Chu Guo , Guojing Tian , Shi-Jie Wei , Xiaoming Sun , Wan-Su Bao , Gui-Lu Long

We introduce ANASTAARS, a noise-aware scalable classical optimizer for variational quantum algorithms such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). ANASTAARS leverages adaptive random subspace strategies to efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Kwassi Joseph Dzahini , Jeffrey M. Larson , Matt Menickelly , Stefan M. Wild

In this paper, we present QPack, a universal benchmark for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers based on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms (QAOA). Unlike other evaluation metrics in the field, this benchmark evaluates…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Koen Mesman , Zaid Al-Ars , Matthias Möller

Quantum computing has attracted considerable public attention due to its exponential speedup over classical computing. Despite its advantages, today's quantum computers intrinsically suffer from noise and are error-prone. To guarantee the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Shaolun Ruan , Yong Wang , Weiwen Jiang , Ying Mao , Qiang Guan

Compressive sensing is a signal processing technique that enables the reconstruction of sparse signals from a limited number of measurements, leveraging the signal's inherent sparsity to facilitate efficient recovery. Recent works on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Naveed Naimipour , Collin Frink , Harry Shaw , Haleh Safavi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

In Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) two major approaches have been followed . While one utilizes engineered features such as mel-frequency-cepstral-coefficients (MFCCs), the other uses learned features that are the outcome of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Bernhard Lehner , Matthias Dorfer , Gerhard Widmer

The attention-based Transformers have been increasingly applied to audio classification because of their global receptive field and ability to handle long-term dependency. However, the existing frameworks which are mainly extended from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Xiaoyu Liu , Hanlin Lu , Jianbo Yuan , Xinyu Li

Box-supervised instance segmentation methods aim to achieve instance segmentation with only box annotations. Recent methods have demonstrated the effectiveness of acquiring high-quality pseudo masks under the teacher-student framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jinxiang Lai , Wenlong Wu , Jiawei Zhan , Jian Li , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Jie Zhang , Song Guo

Noisy-Intermediate-Scale-Quantum (NISQ) devices are nowadays starting to become available to the final user, hence potentially allowing to show the quantum speedups predicted by the quantum information theory. However, before implementing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Paolo Braccia , Leonardo Banchi , Filippo Caruso

The rapid expansion of biomolecular datasets presents significant challenges for computational biology. Quantum computing emerges as a promising solution to address these complexities. This study introduces a novel quantum framework for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Don Roosan , Rubayat Khan , Saif Nirzhor , Tiffany Khou , Fahmida Hai

Channel models are essential for the design, evaluation, and optimization of wireless communication systems. The emerging space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN), characterized by diverse service applications and extended-spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Nanhao Zhou , Chao Zou , Yu Zhou , Yanqun Tang , Xiaoying Zhang , Haoran Yin , Xuefeng Yin , Yuxiang Zhang , Dan Fei , Fan Jiang

The large integration of microphones into devices increases the opportunities for Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks (ASCAs), as these can be used to capture keystrokes' audio signals that might reveal sensitive information. However, the current…

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