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Shape Prior for Quality Assessment in OCTA via Denoising Autoencoders at the Segmentation Level

Abstract: Accurate medical image segmentation is a critical step for detecting and quantifying diseases, identifying pathological regions, and guiding treatment decisions. However, ensuring the ...
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A Shape-Aware Total Body Photography System for In-focus Surface Coverage Optimization

Abstract: Total Body Photography (TBP) is becoming a useful screening tool for patients at high risk for skin cancer. While much progress has been made, existing TBP systems can be further improved ...
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Shape-Based Force Prediction of a Soft SMA Planar Actuator Using Machine Learning

Abstract: Soft actuators driven by shape memory alloy (SMA) wires are capable of undergoing a large deformation and offering a fast response, which allows them to assemble soft robots for diverse ...
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Distributed Shape Determination With Heterogeneous Sensing: Theory and Application

Abstract: Network localization and formation control are two core problems for shape determination of multiagent systems (MASs). How to achieve shape determination is an important yet challenging ...
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Real-Time Shape Estimation of Tensegrity Structures Using Strut Inclination Angles

Abstract: Tensegrity structures are becoming widely used in robotics, such as continuously bending soft manipulators and mobile robots to explore unknown and uneven environments dynamically.
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A Monitoring Method for the Ice Shape and the Freeze–Thaw Process of Ice Accretion on Transmission Line Based on Circular FBG Plane Principal Strain Sensor

Abstract: As a key infrastructure for China’s “West-to-East Power Transmission” project, transmission lines (TLs) face the threat of ice accretion under complex microclimatic conditions. This study ...
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Shape Sensing for Continuum Robots Based on MWCNTs-PDMS Flexible Resistive Strain Sensors

Abstract: Continuum robots show great potential in the medical field owing to their theoretically infinite degrees of freedom, but they still face challenges in shape sensing. This study focuses on ...
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Improved Circular Edge Analysis Method for Measuring the Focus Size and Shape in High-Energy Electron Accelerator

Abstract: To achieve high spatial resolution of X-ray imaging, the focal spot size of high-energy nondestructive testing electron accelerators has been progressively reduced from 2 to below 1 mm, and, ...
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Machine Learning-Enhanced Rapid Design of Hydrodynamic Shape for Underwater Vehicles Pedigrees

Abstract: Currently, underwater vehicles are playing an increasingly important role in ocean observation, and rapid vehicle design is required for the increasingly diversified missions. Hydrodynamic ...
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Lightweight and High-Payload Robotic Gripper Using Shape-Memory-Alloy Actuator and Self-Locking Mechanism

Abstract: This study proposes a novel lightweight robotic gripper with a high-payload capacity using shape-memory-alloy (SMA) actuators and a self-locking mechanism. The multi-joint fingers of the ...
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Diffusion-Driven Self-Supervised Learning for Shape Reconstruction and Pose Estimation

Abstract: Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive manual labeling costs. Recently, various self ...