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We develop novel data dissemination and collection algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in which we consider $n$ sensor nodes distributed randomly in a certain field to measure a physical phenomena. Such sensors have limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Salah A. Aly , Mohamed Salim

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are bio-inspired dynamical systems in which identical cells iteratively apply a learned local update rule to self-organize into complex patterns, exhibiting regeneration, robustness, and spontaneous dynamics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Yitao Xu , Ali Abbasi , Alexander Mordvintsev , Wenzel Jakob , Sabine Süsstrunk

This paper presents a rotation-invariant embedded platform for simulating (neural) cellular automata (NCA) in modular robotic systems. Inspired by previous work on physical NCA, we introduce key innovations that overcome limitations in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominik Woiwode , Jakob Marten , Bodo Rosenhahn

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are a promising new approach to model self-organizing processes, with potential applications in life science. However, their deterministic nature limits their ability to capture the stochasticity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Salvatore Milite , Giulio Caravagna , Andrea Sottoriva

Neural operators have been applied in various scientific fields, such as solving parametric partial differential equations, dynamical systems with control, and inverse problems. However, challenges arise when dealing with input functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Zecheng Zhang , Christian Moya , Lu Lu , Guang Lin , Hayden Schaeffer

Cellular Automata (CA) have long been foundational in simulating dynamical systems computationally. With recent innovations, this model class has been brought into the realm of deep learning by parameterizing the CA's update rule using an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Magnus Petersen

Decentralized monitoring (DM) refers to a monitoring technique, where each component must infer, based on a set of partial observations if the global property is satisfied. Our work is inspired by the theoretical results presented by Baurer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Ezio Bartocci

In the field of medical imaging, the U-Net architecture, along with its variants, has established itself as a cornerstone for image segmentation tasks, particularly due to its strong performance when trained on limited datasets. Despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Steven Korevaar , Ruwan Tennakoon , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

This paper presents a scalable Bayesian technique for decentralized state estimation from multiple platforms in dynamic environments. As has long been recognized, centralized architectures impose severe scaling limitations for distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Matthew Rosencrantz , Geoffrey Gordon , Sebastian Thrun

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rules that capture the adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Benedikt Hartl , Michael Levin , Léo Pio-Lopez

Neural cellular automata (NCA) provide a lightweight alternative to encoder-decoder segmentation networks. However, it can be difficult to decide when a prediction should be trusted. Here, we study uncertainty estimation for NCA-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Ario Sadafi , Michael Deutges , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

The detection and segmentation of white blood cells in blood smear images is a key step in medical diagnostics, supporting various downstream tasks such as automated blood cell counting, morphological analysis, cell classification, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Deutges , Chen Yang , Raheleh Salehi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) offer a robust and interpretable approach to image classification, making them a promising choice for microscopy image analysis. However, a performance gap remains between NCA and larger, more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

When dealing with seismic data, diffusion models often face challenges in adequately capturing local features and expressing spatial relationships. This limitation makes it difficult for diffusion models to remove noise from complex…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Wang Mingwei , Li Yong , Liu Yingtian , Peng Junheng , Li Huating

Efficient compression of correlated data is essential to minimize communication overload in multi-sensor networks. In such networks, each sensor independently compresses the data and transmits them to a central node due to limited…

Access to the proper infrastructure is critical when performing medical image segmentation with Deep Learning. This requirement makes it difficult to run state-of-the-art segmentation models in resource-constrained scenarios like primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 John Kalkhof , Camila González , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

This paper introduces a novel method for eigenvalue computation using a distributed cooperative neural network framework. Unlike traditional techniques that face scalability challenges in large systems, our decentralized algorithm enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Ronald Katende

Despite considerable success, large Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) with UNet backbone pose practical challenges, particularly on limited hardware and in processing gigapixel images. To address these limitations, we introduce two Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 John Kalkhof , Arlene Kühn , Yannik Frisch , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

The dispersed node locations and complex topologies of edge networks, combined with intricate dynamic microservice dependencies, render traditional centralized microservice architectures (MSAs) unsuitable. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuang Chen , Chengdi Lu , Yongsheng Huang , Chang Wu , Fengqian Guo , Hancheng Lu , Chang Wen Chen

Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) are widely used for high-quality image generation and medical image segmentation but often rely on Unet-based architectures, leading to high computational overhead, especially with high-resolution images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Avni Mittal , John Kalkhof , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Arnav Bhavsar
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