Extracting and analyzing 3D histomorphometric features related to perineural and lymphovascular invasion in prostate cancer

This study presents a 3D histomorphometric analysis pipeline using nnU-Net segmentation on optically cleared prostatectomy specimens to extract features related to perineural and lymphovascular invasion, demonstrating that 3D perineural invasion features significantly outperform their 2D counterparts in predicting 5-year biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer.

Sarah S. L. Chow, Rui Wang, Robert B. Serafin, Yujie Zhao, Elena Baraznenok, Xavier Farré, Jennifer Salguero-Lopez, Gan Gao, Huai-Ching Hsieh, Lawrence D. True, Priti Lal, Anant Madabhushi, Jonathan T. C. Liu2026-03-10💻 cs

Feasibility Restoration under Conflicting STL Specifications with Pareto-Optimal Refinement

This paper proposes a unified two-stage framework that restores feasibility for conflicting Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications by first applying minimal relaxation and then refining the solution through Pareto-optimal multi-objective optimization, thereby enabling interpretable decision-making and avoiding deadlocks in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving.

Tianhao Wu, Yiwei Lyu2026-03-10💻 cs

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions

This tutorial critically examines the gap between theoretical Control Barrier Function (CBF) guarantees and practical implementation in robotics, revealing how common misuses and hidden assumptions often lead to tautological safety claims in passively safe systems while offering guidelines and interactive tools to construct valid safety arguments for systems with input constraints.

Taekyung Kim2026-03-10💻 cs

Energy-Efficient Collaborative Transport of Tether-Suspended Payloads via Rotating Equilibrium

This paper proposes a rotating equilibrium strategy for collaborative tethered aerial transport, where steady circular motion generates centrifugal forces to maintain tether tension, thereby enabling quadrotors to produce purely vertical thrust and reducing total power consumption by up to 20% compared to conventional static lifting methods.

Eric Foss, Andrew Tai, Carlo Bosio, Mark W. Mueller2026-03-10💻 cs

Virtual Intraoperative CT (viCT): Sequential Anatomic Updates for Modeling Tissue Resection Throughout Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

This paper introduces Virtual Intraoperative CT (viCT), a method that sequentially updates preoperative CT scans during endoscopic sinus surgery by integrating monocular endoscopic video-derived 3D reconstructions to visualize evolving tissue resection boundaries with submillimeter accuracy, thereby addressing the limitations of static image guidance.

Nicole M. Gunderson, Graham J. Harris, Jeremy S. Ruthberg, Pengcheng Chen, Di Mao, Randall A. Bly, Waleed M. Abuzeid, Eric J. Seibel2026-03-10💻 cs

Securing Cryptography in the Age of Quantum Computing and AI: Threats, Implementations, and Strategic Response

This review paper analyzes the dual threats posed by quantum computing and artificial intelligence to current cryptographic systems, concluding that a comprehensive defense requires a dynamic, multi-layered strategy combining post-quantum algorithms, implementation hardening, and cryptographic agility to address the limitations of any single solution.

Viraaji Mothukuri, Reza M. Parizi2026-03-10💻 cs

VSL-Skin: Individually Addressable Phase-Change Voxel Skin for Variable-Stiffness and Virtual Joints Bridging Soft and Rigid Robots

This paper introduces VSL-Skin, a novel voxel-based phase-change system that bridges soft and rigid robotics by enabling individually addressable, centimeter-scale stiffness modulation, 30% axial compression, and autonomous self-repair to create programmable virtual joints and variable-stiffness morphologies.

Zihan Oliver Zeng, Jiajun An, Preston Luk, Upinder Kaur2026-03-10💻 cs

Optimizing Multi-Modal Models for Image-Based Shape Retrieval: The Role of Pre-Alignment and Hard Contrastive Learning

This paper proposes a novel approach to image-based shape retrieval that leverages pre-aligned multi-modal encoders and a hard contrastive learning loss to achieve state-of-the-art performance in both zero-shot and supervised settings, eliminating the need for explicit view-based supervision or view synthesis.

Paul Julius Kühn, Cedric Spengler, Michael Weinmann, Arjan Kuijper, Saptarshi Neil Sinha2026-03-10💻 cs

Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images

This paper proposes a perception-aware multimodal reasoning framework that enhances Vision-Language Models' spatial understanding in monocular driving scenarios by representing objects with Visual Reference Tokens and utilizing a Multimodal Chain-of-Thought dataset, achieving significant performance gains on the SURDS benchmark through standard supervised fine-tuning.

Yanchun Cheng, Rundong Wang, Xulei Yang, Alok Prakash, Daniela Rus, Marcelo H Ang Jr, ShiJie Li2026-03-10💻 cs

ADAS-TO: A Large-Scale Multimodal Naturalistic Dataset and Empirical Characterization of Human Takeovers during ADAS Engagement

This paper introduces ADAS-TO, the first large-scale naturalistic multimodal dataset of 15,659 ADAS-to-manual takeover events from 327 drivers, which combines kinematic and vision-language analysis to characterize safety-critical scenarios and demonstrate that actionable visual cues often precede takeovers by over three seconds.

Yuhang Wang, Yiyao Xu, Jingran Sun, Hao Zhou2026-03-10💻 cs

Foundational World Models Accurately Detect Bimanual Manipulator Failures

This paper introduces a lightweight, probabilistic world model built on a pretrained vision foundation model that generates uncertainty-based runtime monitors to accurately detect anomalous failures in bimanual manipulators, outperforming existing baselines while requiring significantly fewer trainable parameters.

Isaac R. Ward, Michelle Ho, Houjun Liu, Aaron Feldman, Joseph Vincent, Liam Kruse, Sean Cheong, Duncan Eddy, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Mac Schwager2026-03-10💻 cs

AdaGen: Learning Adaptive Policy for Image Synthesis

AdaGen introduces a general, learnable framework that employs reinforcement learning with an adversarial reward to dynamically adapt step-specific parameters during iterative image synthesis, thereby overcoming the limitations of static, manually-designed schedules and achieving superior performance across diverse generative models with reduced inference costs.

Zanlin Ni, Yulin Wang, Yeguo Hua, Renping Zhou, Jiayi Guo, Jun Song, Bo Zheng, Gao Huang2026-03-10💻 cs