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Risk-Aware Adaptive Video Processing with Freshness Control for Low-Latency Assistive Vision

This paper proposes a risk-aware adaptive video-processing controller for low-latency assistive vision that dynamically separates frame admission from inference-mode selection based on network, compute, and navigation risk metrics, thereby significantly reducing end-to-end latency and shedding stale non-critical frames while ensuring critical-risk observations receive full-fidelity processing.

Md Shahanur Islam Shagor2026-09-03
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A Global–Local Feature Coupled Invertible Neural Network with Multi-Channel Attention Pooling for Image Steganography

This paper proposes CINN, a convolution-based invertible neural network that integrates global-local feature coupling and multi-channel attention pooling to simultaneously enhance the security, imperceptibility, and recovery fidelity of image steganography, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods across multiple datasets and steganalysis evaluations.

Yan Zhao, Yang Lingkang2026-09-02
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GaussCast: Dependency-Aware Shared Block Retrieval for Multi-User Layered 3D Gaussian Splatting

GaussCast is a dependency-aware delivery framework for multi-user layered 3D Gaussian Splatting that aggregates concurrent user demands at an edge proxy to fetch shared prerequisite blocks only once, thereby significantly reducing upstream traffic and improving startup latency and rendering quality compared to independent per-user delivery strategies.

Yulong Zhang, Ruonan Chai, Jiadong Yu, Zili Meng, Dirk Kutscher2026-09-02
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A State-Sensing Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Dynamic Search and Rank-Based Selection for High-Dimensional Complex Optimization

This paper proposes the State-Sensing Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony (SSA-ABC) algorithm, which overcomes standard ABC's limitations through dimensionality-aware initialization, dynamic search adjustment, and rank-based selection mechanisms to achieve superior performance in high-dimensional optimization and robot path planning.

Xinyao Gao2026-09-02
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Visual Distances among Cultural Art Corpora Align with Expert-Coded Historical-Artistic Relatedness

This study demonstrates that visual distances derived from large vision models significantly correlate with expert-coded historical-artistic relatedness across diverse cultural units and epochs, suggesting that internet-scale visual training corpora inherently encode statistical regularities reflecting art-historical relationships.

Qiurui Wang, Weiqiang Ying, Ziyu Xu, Yousheng Yao, Shirui Wen, Guoying Wu, Cheng Yao, Fangtian Ying, Guanghui Huang2026-09-02
💻 computer science

Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Queuing Systems with Bursty Traffic: A Constrained Soft Actor-Critic Approach

This paper proposes a Constrained Soft Actor-Critic (CSAC) approach that decouples stringent delay constraints from the reward function and employs a two-stage mapping mechanism to effectively maximize throughput utility while minimizing delay violations in heterogeneous queuing systems with bursty traffic, outperforming both unconstrained learning and heuristic baselines.

Ao Fang, Jianyu Cao, Weihua Qian2026-09-02