Can You Hear, Localize, and Segment Continually? An Exemplar-Free Continual Learning Benchmark for Audio-Visual Segmentation

This paper introduces the first exemplar-free continual learning benchmark for Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) and proposes the ATLAS baseline, which utilizes audio-guided pre-fusion conditioning and Low-Rank Anchoring to effectively mitigate catastrophic forgetting in dynamic, evolving environments.

Siddeshwar Raghavan, Gautham Vinod, Bruce Coburn, Fengqing ZhuWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

SEP-NMPC: Safety Enhanced Passivity-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a UAV Slung Payload System

This paper presents a Safety Enhanced Passivity-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (SEP-NMPC) framework that unifies strict passivity-based stability and high-order control barrier function safety guarantees to enable real-time, collision-free transport of slung payloads by quadrotors in cluttered environments.

Seyedreza Rezaei, Junjie Kang, Amaldev Haridevan, Jinjun ShanWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Predictive Control with Indirect Adaptive Laws for Payload Transportation by Quadrupedal Robots

This paper presents a novel hierarchical control framework that integrates an indirect adaptive law with model predictive control to enable quadrupedal robots to robustly transport heavy static and dynamic payloads across diverse terrains by estimating unknown parameters and ensuring stability through a convex stability criterion.

Leila Amanzadeh, Taizoon Chunawala, Randall T. Fawcett, Alexander Leonessa, Kaveh Akbari HamedWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Emergency Locator Transmitters in the Era of More Electric Aircraft: A Comprehensive Review of Energy, Integration and Safety Challenges

This paper reviews the evolving design, integration, and safety challenges of Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) within More Electric Aircraft (MEA) environments, addressing critical constraints in power, thermal management, and electromagnetic compatibility while outlining future trends for enhanced reliability and certification.

Juana M. Martínez-Heredia, Adrián Portos, Marcel Štepánek, Francisco ColodroWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

A Survey on Cloud-Based 6G Deployments: Current Solutions, Future Directions and Open Challenges

This survey presents a structured taxonomy and critical analysis of cloud-based 6G deployments, examining current solutions from major cloud providers, key technical challenges like security and scalability, and future directions such as AI-driven orchestration to guide the transition from hardware-bound to cloud-native cellular networks.

Tolga O. Atalay, Alireza Famili, Amirreza Ghafoori, Angelos StavrouWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

CycleULM: A unified label-free deep learning framework for ultrasound localisation microscopy

CycleULM is a novel, label-free deep learning framework that leverages CycleGAN to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap in ultrasound localisation microscopy, significantly enhancing microbubble localisation accuracy, image resolution, and processing speed for real-time clinical application without requiring paired ground truth data.

Su Yan, Clara Rodrigo Gonzalez, Vincent C. H. Leung, Herman Verinaz-Jadan, Jiakang Chen, Matthieu Toulemonde, Kai Riemer, Jipeng Yan, Clotilde Vié, Qingyuan Tan, Peter D. Weinberg, Pier Luigi Dragotti, Kevin G. Murphy, Meng-Xing TangWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Distributed Multichannel Wiener Filtering for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

This paper proposes the distributed multichannel Wiener filter (dMWF), a non-iterative algorithm for wireless acoustic sensor networks that achieves optimal, centralized-level speech estimation performance with reduced communication bandwidth, even when nodes observe different sets of sources, thereby outperforming existing iterative solutions like DANSE.

Paul Didier, Toon van Waterschoot, Simon Doclo, Jörg Bitzer, Pourya Behmandpoor, Henri Gode, Marc MoonenWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

A Semi-spontaneous Dutch Speech Dataset for Speech Enhancement and Speech Recognition

This paper introduces DRES, a 1.5-hour semi-spontaneous Dutch speech dataset recorded in noisy public indoor environments, and evaluates its utility by demonstrating that while several state-of-the-art ASR models achieve competitive performance, modern single-channel speech enhancement algorithms fail to improve recognition accuracy in these realistic conditions.

Dimme de Groot, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jorge Martinez, Odette ScharenborgWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Embedded Model Predictive Control for EMS-type Maglev Vehicles

This paper investigates the implementation of embedded Model Predictive Control for high-speed EMS-type maglev vehicles, demonstrating its ability to robustly stabilize the highly nonlinear system at speeds exceeding 600 km/h while validating the algorithm's performance on resource-constrained microcontrollers through processor-in-the-loop studies.

Arnim Kargl, Mario Hermle, Zhiqiang Zhang, Yanmin Li, Dainan Zhao, Yong Cui, Peter EberhardWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess