7 accepted papers
Assistive robotics is an important subarea of robotics that focuses on the well-being of people with disabilities. A robotic guide dog is an assistive quadruped robot for assisting visually impaired people in obstacle avoidance and navigation. Enabling language capabilities on robotic guide dogs goe
Secure Aggregation (SA) is a cornerstone of Federated Learning (FL), ensuring that user updates remain hidden from servers. The advanced Flamingo (S\&P'23) has realized multi-round aggregation and improved efficiency. However, it still faces several key challenges: scalability issues with dynamic us…
Soft bellows actuators (SBAs), a particular type of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs), are widely used in various applications, such as climbing robots, industrial grippers, and wearable devices. Despite their advantages of uniform motion and high efficiency, the design of SBAs often relies on experie
Existing state-of-the-art techniques that employ multilingual sentence embeddings for mining parallel texts predominantly rely on extensive supervision, which often results in sub-optimal performance in the absence of large-scale parallel training datasets. In this study, we introduce a novel method…
End-to-end paradigm has aroused more and more interests and attention for improving speech-to-text translation (ST) recently. Existing end-to-end models mainly attributes and attempts to address the problem of modeling burden and data scarcity, while always fail to maintain both cross-modal and cros…
Virtual try-on (VTON) aims at fitting target clothes to reference person images, which is widely adopted in e-commerce. Existing VTON approaches can be narrowly categorized into Parser-Based (PB) and Parser-Free (PF) by whether relying on the parser information to mask the persons’clothes and synthe…
Multi-hop relation detection in Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims at retrieving the relation path starting from the topic entity to the answer node based on a given question, where the relation path may comprise multiple relations. Most of the existing methods treat it as a single-label…