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Olfactory Inertial Odometry: Methodology for Effective Robot Navigation by Scent
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02373 https://

Olfactory Inertial Odometry: Methodology for Effective Robot Navigation by Scent
Olfactory navigation is one of the most primitive mechanisms of exploration used by organisms. Navigation by machine olfaction (artificial smell) is a very difficult task to both simulate and solve. With this work, we define olfactory inertial odometry (OIO), a framework for using inertial kinematics, and fast-sampling olfaction sensors to enable navigation by scent analogous to visual inertial odometry (VIO). We establish how principles from SLAM and VIO can be extrapolated to olfaction to ena…

Position: Olfaction Standardization is Essential for the Advancement of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Kordel K. France, Rohith Peddi, Nik Dennler, Ovidiu Daescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00398

Position: Olfaction Standardization is Essential for the Advancement of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Despite extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence (AI), modern systems remain incomplete representations of human cognition. Vision, audition, and language have received disproportionate attention due to well-defined benchmarks, standardized datasets, and consensus-driven scientific foundations. In contrast, olfaction - a high-bandwidth, evolutionarily critical sense - has been largely overlooked. This omission presents a foundational gap in the construction of truly embodied and ethica…

1/N Teemapäiviä riittää. Tänään on näköjään Maailman ympäristöpäivä. "Ympäristö" on sana, joka laimenee joka hetki, kun se saa eteensä aina uusia, vahvoja täsmenteitä: turvallisuuusympäristö, poliittinen ympäristö, toimintaympäristö, psyykkinen ympäristö, kulttuuriympäristö, tietotekninen ympäristö. "Ympäristö" on silloin yhä enemmän vain sana ilman sisältöä, ellei selvästi joka kerta sanota millaisista ympärillämme olevista asioista ja asioiden luokista on tällä kertaa k…

Generalized product formulas for Whittaker's functions and a novel class of index transforms
Semyon Yakubovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05013 https:/…

Generalized product formulas for Whittaker's functions and a novel class of index transforms
Generalized product formulas and index transforms, involving products of Whittaker's functions of different indices are established and investigated. The corresponding inversion formulas are found. Particular cases cover index transforms with products of the modified Bessel and Whittaker's functions. For our goals the Kontorovich-Lebedev and Olevskii transforms of a complex index with nonzero real part are involved.

Diffusion Models for Increasing Accuracy in Olfaction Sensors and Datasets
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00455 https://…

Diffusion Models for Increasing Accuracy in Olfaction Sensors and Datasets
Robotic odour source localization (OSL) is a critical capability for autonomous systems operating in complex environments. However, current OSL methods often suffer from ambiguities, particularly when robots misattribute odours to incorrect objects due to limitations in olfactory datasets and sensor resolutions. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel machine learning method using diffusion-based molecular generation to enhance odour localization accuracy that can be used by itself or w…

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Quantum smell: tunneling mechanisms in olfaction
Dominik Szcz\c{e}\'sniak, Ewa Drzazga-Szcz\c{e}\'sniak, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22265

Quantum smell: tunneling mechanisms in olfaction
The mechanism by which odorants are recognized by olfactory receptors remains primarily unresolved. While charge transport is believed to play a significant role, its precise nature is still unclear. Here, we present a novel perspective by exploring the interplay between the intrinsic energy scales of odorant molecules and the gap states that facilitate intermolecular charge transport. We find that odorants act as weak tunneling conductors mainly because of the limited magnitude of electronic c…

pyMEAL: A Multi-Encoder Augmentation-Aware Learning for Robust and Generalizable Medical Image Translation
Abdul-mojeed Olabisi Ilyas, Adeleke Maradesa, Jamal Banzi, Jianpan Huang, Henry K. F. Mak, Kannie W. Y. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24421

pyMEAL: A Multi-Encoder Augmentation-Aware Learning for Robust and Generalizable Medical Image Translation
Medical imaging is critical for diagnostics, but clinical adoption of advanced AI-driven imaging faces challenges due to patient variability, image artifacts, and limited model generalization. While deep learning has transformed image analysis, 3D medical imaging still suffers from data scarcity and inconsistencies due to acquisition protocols, scanner differences, and patient motion. Traditional augmentation uses a single pipeline for all transformations, disregarding the unique traits of each…

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