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Where to Perch in a Tree: Vision-Guidance for Tree-Grasping Drones

arXiv:2605.15430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study demonstrates a method to locate an ideal perch location on a tree for vision-guided autonomous tree-perching drones. Various image processi

18 May 2026

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this and a high speed maglev from San Francisco to the empty ocean cliffside coasts of North California

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this and a high speed maglev from San Francisco to the empty ocean cliffside coasts of North California An advertisement illustration created by futuristic concept artist, Syd Mead, for the Alcoa Alum

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17 May 2026

SVAG-Bench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Multi-Instance Spatio-temporal Video Action Grounding

arXiv:2510.13016v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A truly capable AI system must do more than detect objects or recognize activities in isolation. It must form unified, grounded representations of w

15 May 2026

Belief-Space Residual Risk for Automated Driving under Localization Uncertainty

arXiv:2605.12710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residual risk metrics have recently been introduced to assess the safety implications of automated driving systems. Existing approaches typically assume

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

14 May 2026

Fractal Graph Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2505.11356v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) relies on semantically consistent graph augmentations, but common local perturbations provide limited control over

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

13 May 2026

Smart moves: Building resilient transportation systems with Google AI

What does transportation mean to you? For some, it’s making sure the train is on schedule so they can get to work on time. Maybe it’s making sure you have time connecting between flights. Maybe it’s a

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13 May 2026

Beyond Self-Play: Hierarchical Reasoning for Continuous Motion in Closed-Loop Traffic Simulation

arXiv:2605.09153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop traffic simulation requires agents that are both scalable and behaviorally realistic. Recent self-play reinforcement learning approaches d

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Cross-Sample Relational Fusion: Unifying Domain Generalization and Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2605.08839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires a learning system to learn new classes while retaining previously learned knowledge. However, in real-world sc

DRIVE-C: A Controlled Corruption Dataset for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2605.09774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: DRIVE-C is a controlled corruption dataset designed to evaluate visual perception robustness in autonomous driving systems. It is built from real-world

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Learning to Learn the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram using Physics-Informed and meta Machine Learning techniques

arXiv:2508.14137v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram is a popular tool used to describe traffic dynamics in an aggregated way, with applications ranging from traffic

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Low-Cost Stereo Vision for Robust 3D Positioning of Thin Radiata Pine Branches in Autonomous Drone Pruning

arXiv:2605.08213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manual pruning of radiata pine, a species of major economic importance to New Zealand forestry, is hazardous, labour-intensive, and increasingly constra

METBRA25Y: Brazil Surface Meteorology Archive with Harmonized Variables and Quality Control

arXiv:2605.08701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This data paper describes METBRA25Y, a harmonized archive of hourly surface meteorological observations from Brazil derived from public historical recor

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Local Ai

I made a fixed-camera timelapse showing 2,000 years of Los Angeles evolution — from empty Tongva homeland to modern megacity. The camera never moves. Neither do the mountains.

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This post describes a fixed-camera timelapse visualization created using AI (likely Stable Diffusion) that depicts Los Angeles's transformation over 2,000 years, starting from its original state as To

11 May 2026

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Tracking Large-scale Shared Bikes with Inertial Motion Learning in GNSS Blocked Environments

arXiv:2605.07412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide a general solution for bike tracking outdoors, there still exist complex riding environmen

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

11 May 2026

Morphology-Guided Cross-Task Coupling for Joint Building Height and Footprint Estimation

arXiv:2605.04731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building height (BH) and building footprint (BF) jointly describe the vertical and horizontal extent of the built environment and are required inputs fo

researcharxiv-cs-cv

7 May 2026

Physics-Guided Regime Unmixing

arXiv:2605.04247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Linear Mixing Model (LMM) dominates spectral unmixing for its simplicity, but fails under multiple scattering; existing nonlinear models compensate

researcharxiv-cs-cv

7 May 2026

Governing What the EU AI Act Excludes: Accountability for Autonomous AI Agents in Smart City Critical Infrastructure

arXiv:2605.01091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a traffic signal controller adjusts green phases and a grid manager curtails power on the same corridor, each system may comply with its own obli

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

6 May 2026

3D Gaussian Splatting against Moving Objects for High-Fidelity Street Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2503.12001v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The accurate reconstruction of dynamic street scenes is critical for applications in autonomous driving, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Tra

5 May 2026

High-Quality Spatial Reconstruction and Orthoimage Generation Using Efficient 2D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2503.19703v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Highly accurate geometric precision and dense image features characterize True Digital Orthophoto Maps (TDOMs), which are in great demand for applic

researcharxiv-cs-cv

5 May 2026

Human Activity Recognition Method for Moderate Violence Detection

arXiv:2605.02659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical violence in public spaces is a significant public health concern, with minor incidents such as pushing often serving as precursors to more seve

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

5 May 2026

Beyond Visual Fidelity: Benchmarking Super-Resolution Models for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery via Downstream Task Integration

arXiv:2605.00310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Super-resolution (SR) techniques have made major advances in reconstructing high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs. The increased resolution

4 May 2026

AI will create more jobs than any other technology in history. The doomers' fundamental error isn't just the lump of labor fallacy. It's dee…

AI will create more jobs than any other technology in history. The doomers' fundamental error isn't just the lump of labor fallacy. It's deeper than that. They assume a finite problem space. This is t

safetyyann-lecun--x

3 May 2026

AirZoo: A Unified Large-Scale Dataset for Grounding Aerial Geometric 3D Vision

arXiv:2604.26567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the rapid progress in data-driven 3D vision, aerial geometric 3D vision remains a formidable challenge due to the severe scarcity of large-scale

30 Apr 2026

Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

arXiv:2604.26201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the seve

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

30 Apr 2026

Spatially-constrained clustering of geospatial features for heat vulnerability assessment of favelas in Rio de Janeiro

arXiv:2604.26133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Informal settlements face disproportionate exposure to climate-related health hazards. However, existing methodologies lack systematic approaches to lin

researcharxiv-cs-lg

30 Apr 2026

AIDOVECL: AI-generated Dataset of Outpainted Vehicles for Eye-level Classification and Localization

arXiv:2410.24116v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image labeling is a critical bottleneck in the development of computer vision technologies, often constraining machine learning performance due to t

29 Apr 2026

No Pedestrian Left Behind: Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Vulnerable Road Users for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control

arXiv:2604.25887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current pedestrian crossing signals operate on fixed timing without adjustment to pedestrian behavior, which can leave vulnerable road users (VRUs) such

29 Apr 2026

Attention-Augmented YOLOv8 with Ghost Convolution for Real-Time Vehicle Detection in Intelligent Transportation Systems

arXiv:2604.22856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate vehicle detection is a critical component of autonomous driving, traffic surveillance, and intelligent transportation systems. This paper prese

Machine-Learning-Based Classification of Radio Frequency Building Loss

arXiv:2604.24143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate modeling of outdoor-to-indoor (O2I) and indoor-to-indoor (I2I) signal loss is important for improving indoor wireless network performance in de

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Hardware

Non-Destructive Prediction of Fruit Ripeness and Firmness Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Lightweight Machine Learning Models

arXiv:2604.22788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-harvest fruit quality assessment is essential for reducing food waste, yet reliable non-destructive methods typically depend on expensive hypersp

hardwarearxiv-cs-lg

Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

arXiv:2604.24674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. Whil

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Industry

South Korean reporter after experiencing @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the country for the first time: 'It flawlessly performed all tasks, incl…

South Korean reporter after experiencing @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the country for the first time: 'It flawlessly performed all tasks, including obeying traffic signals, staying in lanes, adhering to

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Improving Driver Drowsiness Detection via Personalized EAR/MAR Thresholds and CNN-Based Classification

arXiv:2604.22479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driver drowsiness is a major cause of traffic accidents worldwide, posing a serious threat to public safety. Vision-based driver monitoring systems ofte

27 Apr 2026

Learning Coverage- and Power-Optimal Transmitter Placement from Building Maps: A Comparative Study of Direct and Indirect Neural Approaches

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arXiv:2604.22056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimal wireless transmitter placement is a central task in radio-network planning, yet exhaustive search becomes prohibitively expensive at scale. This

27 Apr 2026

Transferable Physical-World Adversarial Patches Against Pedestrian Detection Models

arXiv:2604.22552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical adversarial patch attacks critically threaten pedestrian detection, causing surveillance and autonomous driving systems to miss pedestrians and

27 Apr 2026

SyMTRS: Benchmark Multi-Task Synthetic Dataset for Depth, Domain Adaptation and Super-Resolution in Aerial Imagery

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2604.21801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in deep learning for remote sensing rely heavily on large annotated datasets, yet acquiring high-quality ground truth for geometric, r

24 Apr 2026

Temporal Prototyping and Hierarchical Alignment for Unsupervised Video-based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

arXiv:2604.21324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) enables cross-modality identity matching for all-day surveillance, yet existing methods predominantl

24 Apr 2026

CARLA-Air: Fly Drones Inside a CARLA World -- A Unified Infrastructure for Air-Ground Embodied Intelligence

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2603.28032v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The convergence of low-altitude economies, embodied intelligence, and air-ground cooperative systems creates growing demand for simulation inf

From Fuzzy to Formal: Scaling Hospital Quality Improvement with AI

arXiv:2604.20055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hospital Quality Improvement (QI) plays a critical role in optimizing healthcare delivery by translating high-level hospital goals into actionable solut

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Large language models perceive cities through a culturally uneven baseline

arXiv:2604.20048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to describe, evaluate and interpret places, yet it remains unclear whether they do so from a cultural

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Personalized electric vehicle energy consumption estimation framework that integrates driver behavior with map data

arXiv:2604.20764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a personalized Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) energy consumption estimation framework that integrates map-based contextual feature

researcharxiv-cs-lg

SGAP-Gaze: Scene Grid Attention Based Point-of-Gaze Estimation Network for Driver Gaze

arXiv:2604.19888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driver gaze estimation is essential for understanding the driver's situational awareness of surrounding traffic. Existing gaze estimation models use dri

Structured Disagreement in Health-Literacy Annotation: Epistemic Stability, Conceptual Difficulty, and Agreement-Stratified Inference

arXiv:2604.19943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Annotation pipelines in Natural Language Processing (NLP) commonly assume a single latent ground truth per instance and resolve disagreement through lab

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

Local Ai

Automated Road Crack Localization to Guide Highway Maintenance

arXiv:2601.16737v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Highway networks are crucial for economic prosperity. Climate change-induced temperature fluctuations are exacerbating stress on road pavements, res

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HAVEN: Hierarchical Adversary-aware Visibility-Enabled Navigation with Cover Utilization using Deep Transformer Q-Networks

arXiv:2512.00592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous navigation in partially observable environments requires agents to reason beyond immediate sensor input, exploit occlusion, and ensure sa

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

LookasideVLN: Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2604.17190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (Aerial VLN) enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to follow natural language instructions and navigate complex

Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification

arXiv:2604.16993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task tends to evolve from mere reachabili

Causal Bootstrapped Alignment for Unsupervised Video-Based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

arXiv:2604.15631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VVI-ReID is a critical technique for all-day surveillance, where temporal information provides additional cues beyond static images. However, existing a