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Sonify Anything: Towards Context-Aware Sonic Interactions in AR
Laura Sch\"utz, Sasan Matinfar, Ulrich Eck, Daniel Roth, Nassir Navab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01789 https…

Sonify Anything: Towards Context-Aware Sonic Interactions in AR
In Augmented Reality (AR), virtual objects interact with real objects. However, the lack of physicality of virtual objects leads to the absence of natural sonic interactions. When virtual and real objects collide, either no sound or a generic sound is played. Both lead to an incongruent multisensory experience, reducing interaction and object realism. Unlike in Virtual Reality (VR) and games, where predefined scenes and interactions allow for the playback of pre-recorded sound samples, AR requi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14249 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Nested Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression
Several causal parameters in short panel data models are functionals of a nested nonparametric instrumental variable regression (nested NPIV). Recent examples include mediated, time varying, and long term treatment effects identified using proxy variables. In econometrics, examples arise in triangular simultaneous equations and hedonic price systems. However, it appears that explicit mean square convergence rates for nested NPIV are unknown, preventing inference on some of these parameters with…

PromptVFX: Text-Driven Fields for Open-World 3D Gaussian Animation
Mert Kiray, Paul Uhlenbruck, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01091

PromptVFX: Text-Driven Fields for Open-World 3D Gaussian Animation
Visual effects (VFX) are key to immersion in modern films, games, and AR/VR. Creating 3D effects requires specialized expertise and training in 3D animation software and can be time consuming. Generative solutions typically rely on computationally intense methods such as diffusion models which can be slow at 4D inference. We reformulate 3D animation as a field prediction task and introduce a text-driven framework that infers a time-varying 4D flow field acting on 3D Gaussians. By leveraging lar…

HASD: Hierarchical Adaption for pathology Slide-level Domain-shift
Jingsong Liu, Han Li, Chen Yang, Michael Deutges, Ario Sadafi, Xin You, Katharina Breininger, Nassir Navab, Peter J. Sch\"uffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23673

HASD: Hierarchical Adaption for pathology Slide-level Domain-shift
Domain shift is a critical problem for pathology AI as pathology data is heavily influenced by center-specific conditions. Current pathology domain adaptation methods focus on image patches rather than WSI, thus failing to capture global WSI features required in typical clinical scenarios. In this work, we address the challenges of slide-level domain shift by proposing a Hierarchical Adaptation framework for Slide-level Domain-shift (HASD). HASD achieves multi-scale feature consistency and comp…

SurgTPGS: Semantic 3D Surgical Scene Understanding with Text Promptable Gaussian Splatting
Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Beilei Cui, Kun Yuan, Guankun Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Nicolas Padoy, Nassir Navab, Hongliang Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23309

SurgTPGS: Semantic 3D Surgical Scene Understanding with Text Promptable Gaussian Splatting
In contemporary surgical research and practice, accurately comprehending 3D surgical scenes with text-promptable capabilities is particularly crucial for surgical planning and real-time intra-operative guidance, where precisely identifying and interacting with surgical tools and anatomical structures is paramount. However, existing works focus on surgical vision-language model (VLM), 3D reconstruction, and segmentation separately, lacking support for real-time text-promptable 3D queries. In thi…

Eindelijk eens op F-droid gekeken naar een app om YouTube filmpjes te kunnen downloaden als dat zo uitkomt.
Bij Tubular (fork van NewPipe) is dat aardig gelukt.
Tubular
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular

My complete setup is currently as follows:
Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Ma…

Tactile-Guided Robotic Ultrasound: Mapping Preplanned Scan Paths for Intercostal Imaging
Yifan Zhang, Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20282

Tactile-Guided Robotic Ultrasound: Mapping Preplanned Scan Paths for Intercostal Imaging
Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in clinical examinations due to its portability, real-time capability, and radiation-free nature. To address inter- and intra-operator variability, robotic ultrasound systems have gained increasing attention. However, their application in challenging intercostal imaging remains limited due to the lack of an effective scan path generation method within the constrained acoustic window. To overcome this challenge, we explore the potential of tactile c…

Cosmology from Planck CMB Lensing and DESI DR1 Quasar Tomography
R. de Belsunce, A. Krolewski, S. Chiarenza, E. Chaussidon, S. Ferraro, B. Hadzhiyska, C. Ravoux, N. Sailer, G. Farren, A. Tamone, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, D. Bianchi, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, A. Cuceu, A. de la Macorra, J. Della Costa, Biprateep Dey, P. Doel, A. Font-Ribera, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gazta\~naga, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, G. Gutierrez, J. Guy, H. K. Herrera-Alcantar, K. Honscheid, M. Ishak, R. Joyce, S. Juneau, R.…

Cosmology from Planck CMB Lensing and DESI DR1 Quasar Tomography
We present a measurement of the amplitude of matter fluctuations over the redshift range 0.8 <= z <= 3.5 from the cross correlation of over 1.2 million spectroscopic quasars selected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) across 7,200 deg$^2$ (approx 170 quasars/deg$^2$) and Planck PR4 (NPIPE) cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps. We perform a tomographic measurement in three bins centered at effective redshifts z=1.44, 2.27 and 2.75, which have ample overlap with the CMB …

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Antisémitisme de Vichy : un conflit entre historiens porté au tribunal
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/07/17/antisemitisme-de-vichy-un-conflit-entre-histo…

Antisémitisme de Vichy : un conflit entre historiens porté au tribunal
Quatre-vingt-trois ans après la rafle du Vél’d’Hiv, des historiens insistant sur la dimension xénophobe plus qu’antisémite de l’Etat français s’estiment diffamés et ont intenté plusieurs actions en justice contre des universitaires et des journalistes.