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Error-Mitigated Quantum Metrology via Probabilistic Virtual Purification
Xiaodie Lin, Haidong Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07618 https://

Error-Mitigated Quantum Metrology via Probabilistic Virtual Purification
Quantum metrology stands as a leading application of quantum science and technology, yet its precision and sensitivity are often constrained by noise. In the context of near-term quantum metrology, quantum error mitigation offers a promising strategy to leverage quantum resources. While existing error-mitigated protocols largely depend on virtual state purification, significant noise accumulation and the additional noise introduced by the noisy implementations of these protocols can impede the …

Hello all - for anyone who's interested, we'll be having our June monthly #libre | Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) catchup tomorrow (Tues) evening, at 20:00 NZST. We meet at

Efficient Memory Tiering in a Virtual Machine
Chandra Prakash, Aravinda Prasad, Sandeep Kumar, Sreenivas Subramoney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06067 https:…

Efficient Memory Tiering in a Virtual Machine
Memory tiering is the norm to effectively tackle the increasing server memory total cost of ownership (TCO) and the growing data demands of modern data center workloads. However, the host-based state-of-the-art memory tiering solutions can be inefficient for a virtualized environment when (i) the frequently accessed data are scattered across the guest physical address space or (ii) the accesses to a huge page inside the guest are skewed due to a small number of subpages being hot. Scattered or …

Data-driven nonlinear output regulation via data-enforced incremental passivity
Yixuan Liu, Meichen Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06079 https://

Data-driven nonlinear output regulation via data-enforced incremental passivity
This work proposes a data-driven regulator design that drives the output of a nonlinear system asymptotically to a time-varying reference and rejects time-varying disturbances. The key idea is to design a data-driven feedback controller such that the closed-loop system is incrementally passive with respect to the regulation error and a virtual input. By carefully designing the virtual input, we solve the data-driven nonlinear output regulation problem where the reference and disturbances are ge…

Flow-induced vibration of twin-pipe model with varying mass and damping: A study using virtual physical framework
Jiawei Shen, Shixiao Fu, Xuepeng Fu, Torgeir Moan, Svein S{\ae}vik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05649

Flow-induced vibration of twin-pipe model with varying mass and damping: A study using virtual physical framework
Flow-induced vibration (FIV) commonly occurs in rigidly coupled twin-pipe structures. However, the limited understanding of their FIV responses and hydrodynamic features presents a major challenge to the development of reliable engineering designs. To bridge this gap, the present study systematically investigates the FIV characteristics of a rigidly coupled twin-pipe model with elastic support using a virtual physical framework (VPF), which enables flexible control of structural parameters duri…

Polarized Element-pair Code Based FFMA over a Gaussian Multiple-access Channel
Zhang-li-han Liu, Qi-yue Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06796 https://…

Polarized Element-pair Code Based FFMA over a Gaussian Multiple-access Channel
This paper presents polarized element-pair (EP) codes for polarization-adjusted finite-field multiple-access (PA-FFMA) systems. The core innovation of FFMA systems lies in their unique processing order that exchanges the conventional sequence of channel coding and multiplexing operations, effectively solving the multiuser finite-blocklength (FBL) problem while enhancing error performance. In this architecture, EPs serve as virtual resources for user separation, where different EP codes provide …

Probing QCD Confinement with Spin Entanglement
The STAR Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05499 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.054…

Probing QCD Confinement with Spin Entanglement
Once regarded as mere emptiness, the vacuum is now understood to possess a rich and complex structure, characterized by fluctuating energy fields and a condensate of virtual quark-antiquark pairs. These pairs cause spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, a fundamental phenomenon that is believed to generate over 99% of the mass in the visible universe. However, the precise mechanism linking the chiral symmetry breaking to the mass generation associated with quark confinement remains one of the mo…

Addressing geometrical perturbations by applying generalized polynomial chaos to virtual density in continuous energy Monte-Carlo power iteration
Th\'eophile Bonnet, Anuj Dubey, Eugene Shwageraus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06046

Addressing geometrical perturbations by applying generalized polynomial chaos to virtual density in continuous energy Monte-Carlo power iteration
In this work, we revisit the use of the virtual density method to model uniform geometrical perturbations. We propose a general algorithm using surface tracking in order to estimate explicitly the effect of geometrical perturbations in continuous-energy Monte Carlo simulations, and we apply the intrinsic generalized polynomial chaos method in order to estimate the coefficients of a reduced model giving the multiplication factor as a function of the amplitude of the geometrical perturbation. Our…

AI-powered Contextual 3D Environment Generation: A Systematic Review
Miguel Silva, Alexandre Valle de Carvalho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05449 https://

AI-powered Contextual 3D Environment Generation: A Systematic Review
The generation of high-quality 3D environments is crucial for industries such as gaming, virtual reality, and cinema, yet remains resource-intensive due to the reliance on manual processes. This study performs a systematic review of existing generative AI techniques for 3D scene generation, analyzing their characteristics, strengths, limitations, and potential for improvement. By examining state-of-the-art approaches, it presents key challenges such as scene authenticity and the influence of te…

Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/omada-shares-open-at-23-in-na…

Omada shares pop 42% in Nasdaq debut after health tech company's IPO
Omada Health became the latest tech company to hit the Nasdaq on Friday, as the IPO market picks up steam.

from my link log —
Wasm SpecTec has been adopted.
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-03-27-spectec/
saved 2025-03-28 https://

SpecTec has been adopted - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

SVD: Spatial Video Dataset
M. H. Izadimehr, Milad Ghanbari, Guodong Chen, Wei Zhou, Xiaoshuai Hao, Mallesham Dasari, Christian Timmerer, Hadi Amirpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06037

SVD: Spatial Video Dataset
Stereoscopic video has long been the subject of research due to its capacity to deliver immersive three-dimensional content across a wide range of applications, from virtual and augmented reality to advanced human-computer interaction. The dual-view format inherently provides binocular disparity cues that enhance depth perception and realism, making it indispensable for fields such as telepresence, 3D mapping, and robotic vision. Until recently, however, end-to-end pipelines for capturing, enco…

The Virtual CEO
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Neue VR-Spiele im Juni 2025: "Zombie Army VR"
Im Juni bringt Rebellion mit "Zombie Army VR" eine altbekannte Reihe in die Virtual Reality. Zusätzlich erscheinen "Cave Crave" und "Maestro".

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality https://www.404media.co/tsa-working-on-haptic-tech-to-feel-your-body-in-virtual-reality/

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

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Virtual Cells: Predict, Explain, Discover
Drug discovery is fundamentally a process of inferring the effects of treatments on patients, and would therefore benefit immensely from computational models that can reliably simulate patient responses, enabling researchers to generate and test large numbers of therapeutic hypotheses safely and economically before initiating costly clinical trials. Even a more specific model that predicts the functional response of cells to a wide range of perturbations would be tremendously valuable for disco…

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Dressed to Gamble: How Poker Drives the Dynamics of Wearables and Visits on Decentraland's Social Virtual World
Decentraland is a blockchain-based social virtual world where users can publish and sell wearables to customize avatars. In it, the third-party Decentral Games (DG) allows players of its flagship game ICE Poker to earn cryptocurrency only if they possess certain wearables. Herein, we present a comprehensive study on how DG and its game influence the dynamics of wearables and in-world visits in Decentraland. To this end, we analyzed 5.9 million wearable transfers made on the Polygon blockchain (…

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Human-Machine Interfaces for Subsea Telerobotics: From Soda-straw to Natural Language Interactions
This review explores the evolution of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in subsea telerobotics, charting the progression from traditional first-person "soda-straw" consoles -- characterized by narrow field-of-view camera feeds -- to contemporary interfaces leveraging gesture recognition, virtual reality, and natural language processing. We systematically analyze the state-of-the-art literature through three interrelated perspectives: operator experience (including immersive feedback, cognitive wo…

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The Junction of Immersive Analytics and Virtual Reconstructions -- A Case Study on the Mausoleum of Emperor Maxentius
Virtual Archaeology has significantly evolved over the last decades through advancements in data acquisition and representation by, e.g., improved data recording technologies and virtual reality devices. Immersive environments provide novel ways to present historical events or objects with high visual quality for both, the general public as well as researchers. Here, we examine how the emerging field of Immersive Analytics can contribute to enhancing the understanding and exploration of archaeo…

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The Many Challenges of Human-Like Agents in Virtual Game Environments
Human-like agents are an increasingly important topic in games and beyond. Believable non-player characters enhance the gaming experience by improving immersion and providing entertainment. They also offer players the opportunity to engage with AI entities that can function as opponents, teachers, or cooperating partners. Additionally, in games where bots are prohibited -- and even more so in non-game environments -- there is a need for methods capable of identifying whether digital interaction…

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LAVA: Lifetime-Aware VM Allocation with Learned Distributions and Adaptation to Mispredictions
Scheduling virtual machines (VMs) on hosts in cloud data centers dictates efficiency and is an NP-hard problem with incomplete information. Prior work improved VM scheduling with predicted VM lifetimes. Our work further improves lifetime-aware scheduling using repredictions with lifetime distributions versus one-shot prediction. Our approach repredicts and adjusts VM and host lifetimes when incorrect predictions emerge. We also present novel approaches for defragmentation and regular system mai…

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The Blowup Formula for the Instanton Part of Vafa-Witten Invariants on Projective Surfaces
We prove a blow-up formula for the generating series of virtual $χ_y$-genera for moduli spaces of sheaves on projective surfaces, which is related to a conjectured formula for topological $χ_y$-genera of Göttsche. Our formula is a refinement of one by Vafa-Witten relating to S-duality. We prove the formula simultaneously in the setting of Gieseker stable sheaves on polarised surfaces and also in the setting of framed sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^2$. The proof is based on the blow-up algorithm of N…

Assessing Workers Neuro-physiological Stress Responses to Augmented Reality Safety Warnings in Immersive Virtual Roadway Work Zones
Fatemeh Banani Ardecani, Omidreza Shoghli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03113

Assessing Workers Neuro-physiological Stress Responses to Augmented Reality Safety Warnings in Immersive Virtual Roadway Work Zones
This paper presents a multi-stage experimental framework that integrates immersive Virtual Reality (VR) simulations, wearable sensors, and advanced signal processing to investigate construction workers neuro-physiological stress responses to multi-sensory AR-enabled warnings. Participants performed light- and moderate-intensity roadway maintenance tasks within a high-fidelity VR roadway work zone, while key stress markers of electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate variability (HRV), and electr…

Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busine…

Matrix representations of the twisted virtual braid group and its extensions
Mohamad N. Nasser, Vaibhav Keshari, Madeti Prabhakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03806

Matrix representations of the twisted virtual braid group and its extensions
This paper classifies complex local representations of the twisted virtual braid group, $\mathrm{TVB}_2$, into $\mathrm{GL}_3(\mathbb{C})$. It shows that such representations fall into eight types, all of which are unfaithful and reducible to degree $2 \times 2$. Further reducibility to degree 1 is analyzed for specific types. The paper also examines complex homogeneous local representations of $\mathrm{TVB}_n$ into $\mathrm{GL}_{n+1}(\mathbb{C})$ for $n \geq 3$, identifying seven unfaithful ty…

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A Casimir-like probe for 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Virtual transitions in a Casimir-like configuration are utilized to probe quantum aspects of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity. This study employs a quantum optics-based approach, wherein an Unruh-DeWitt detector (modeled as a two-level atom) follows a radial timelike geodesic, falling freely into an uncharged, nonrotating black hole described by 4D EGB gravity, becoming thermalized in the usual Unruh manner. The black hole, asymptotically Minkowskian, is enclosed by a Cas…

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CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching
Building a virtual cell capable of accurately simulating cellular behaviors in silico has long been a dream in computational biology. We introduce CellFlux, an image-generative model that simulates cellular morphology changes induced by chemical and genetic perturbations using flow matching. Unlike prior methods, CellFlux models distribution-wise transformations from unperturbed to perturbed cell states, effectively distinguishing actual perturbation effects from experimental artifacts such as …

Virtual Polarization Elements for Spatially Varying Jones Matrix Transformations on a Free-Space Plane
Mingyue Wang (Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China), Jiayuan Wang (Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Shenzhen Research Institute of Xiamen University, Shenzhen, China)
https://arxiv.org…

Virtual Polarization Elements for Spatially Varying Jones Matrix Transformations on a Free-Space Plane
Precise control over the spatial and polarization properties of light is foundational for advanced photonic systems, yet most conventional approaches are constrained to local, contact-based manipulation at physical interfaces. To overcome these constraints, here we introduce a fundamentally new framework for action-at-a-distance polarization control using virtual polarization elements (VPEs). VPEs apply prescribed local Jones matrix transformations between an input field at the modulation plane…

Higher-order soft and virtual corrections in $p p \to \gamma W$ production at the LHC
Nikolaos Kidonakis, Alberto Tonero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01590 h…

Higher-order soft and virtual corrections in $p p \to γW$ production at the LHC
We study higher-order QCD corrections beyond NLO for the associated production of a photon with a $W$ boson ($γW^+$ and $γW^-$ production) at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate the NNLO soft-plus-virtual QCD corrections as well as the N$^3$LO soft-gluon corrections to the total production cross section and the photon transverse-momentum distribution in single-particle-inclusive kinematics. The higher-order corrections provide a significant enhancement to the cross section. This is the fi…

A generating set of Reidemeister moves of oriented virtual knots
Danish Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24094 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A generating set of Reidemeister moves of oriented virtual knots
In oriented knot theory, verifying a quantity is an invariant involves checking its invariance under all oriented Reidemeister moves, a process that can be intricate and time-consuming. A generating set of oriented moves simplifies this by requiring verification for only a minimal subset from which all other moves can be derived. While generating sets for classical oriented Reidemeister moves are well-established, their virtual counterparts are less explored. In this study, we enumerate the ori…

Der Stealth-Klassiker "Thief" kehrt zurück – als VR-Spiel
Nach mehr als zehn Jahren Abwesenheit kehrt die genreprägende "Thief"-Reihe zurück und erlebt in der Virtual Reality ein Comeback.

Je viens de créer cette issue concernant les #ElasticMetal #Scaleway « Elastic Metal: Add protected feature for Elastic Metal »
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‘The Postman Always Recharges Twice’
🇨🇭 Swiss Post enables bi-directional charging (#V2G) on its fleet of three-wheeled e-scooters, turning them into a virtual power plant; delivering or collecting energy at the right time.

Swiss Post e-scooters as a virtual power station
🔋 Can electric scooters stabilize the electricity grid? Swiss Post is testing it – with bidirectional charging! Find out more now!

Frame-Level Real-Time Assessment of Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises from Video-Level Labeled Data: Task-Specific vs. Foundation Models
Gon\c{c}alo Mesquita, Ana Rita C\'oias, Artur Dubrawski, Alexandre Bernardino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03752

Frame-Level Real-Time Assessment of Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises from Video-Level Labeled Data: Task-Specific vs. Foundation Models
The growing demands of stroke rehabilitation have increased the need for solutions to support autonomous exercising. Virtual coaches can provide real-time exercise feedback from video data, helping patients improve motor function and keep engagement. However, training real-time motion analysis systems demands frame-level annotations, which are time-consuming and costly to obtain. In this work, we present a framework that learns to classify individual frames from video-level annotations for real…

So, EU users get the more open iOS now than the rest of the world?
Apple Is Working to Permit Other Default Virtual Assistants on iOS, but Only in the E.U. – Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ios-default-virtual-assistants/

Finiteness properties of stabilisers of oligomorphic actions
Francesco Fournier-Facio, Peter H. Kropholler, Robert Alonzo Lyman, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02319

Finiteness properties of stabilisers of oligomorphic actions
An action of a group on a set is oligomorphic if it has finitely many orbits of $n$-element subsets for all $n$. We prove that for a large class of groups (including all groups of finite virtual cohomological dimension and all countable linear groups), for any oligomorphic action of such a group on an infinite set there exists a finite subset whose stabiliser is not of type $\mathrm{FP}_\infty$. This leads to obstructions on finiteness properties for permutational wreath products and twisted Br…

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Effect of laboratory conditions on the perception of virtual stages for music
This manuscript presents initial findings critical for supporting augmented acoustics experiments in custom-made hearing booths, addressing a key challenge in ensuring perceptual validity and experimental rigor in these highly sensitive setups. This validation ensures our proposed methodology is sound, guarantees the reliability of future results, and lays the foundational groundwork for subsequent perceptual studies and the development of robust guidelines for laboratory design in virtual acou…

Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning
Yihong Tang, Kehai Chen, Muyun Yang, Zhengyu Niu, Jing Li, Tiejun Zhao, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01748

Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning
The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred significant interest in Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) for applications such as emotional companionship and virtual interaction. However, recent RPAs are often built on explicit dialogue data, lacking deep, human-like internal thought processes, resulting in superficial knowledge and style expression. While Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) can be employed to simulate character thought, their direct application is hindered by attention diversi…

Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other entertainment companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/medi…

A Project Moohan benchmark gets spotted, and may have revealed the Android XR headset's key spec https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality…

🗳️ A new virtual summit is in the works—uniting educators, activists, artists & citizens to resist authoritarianism defend democracy. 🛠️ Help shape the vision: take the planning survey − bit.ly/4jhX8tR
#Resist #Democracy

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Integrating anatomy and electrophysiology in the healthy human heart: Insights from biventricular statistical shape analysis using universal coordinates
A cardiac digital twin is a virtual replica of a patient-specific heart, mimicking its anatomy and physiology. A crucial step of building a cardiac digital twin is anatomical twinning, where the computational mesh of the digital twin is tailored to the patient-specific cardiac anatomy. In a number of studies, the effect of anatomical variation on clinically relevant functional measurements like electrocardiograms (ECGs) is investigated, using computational simulations. While such a simulation e…

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VIDEX: A Disaggregated and Extensible Virtual Index for the Cloud and AI Era
Virtual index, also known as hypothetical indexes, play a crucial role in database query optimization. However, with the rapid advancement of cloud computing and AI-driven models for database optimization, traditional virtual index approaches face significant challenges. Cloud-native environments often prohibit direct conducting query optimization process on production databases due to stability requirements and data privacy concerns. Moreover, while AI models show promising progress, their int…

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Quantum Annealing-Enhanced Virtual Traffic Lights and its Evaluation Using a Quantum-in-the-Loop Simulation Testbed
Virtual Traffic Light (VTL) is a traffic control method that does not require traffic signal-related infrastructure for roadway intersections. Connected vehicles (CVs) are given right-of-way based on prevailing traffic conditions, such as estimated times of arrival (ETAs) of vehicles, the number of CVs in different approaches, and their emissions. These factors are considered in line with the objectives of the VTL application. Aiming to optimize traffic flow by reducing delays, VTL generates Si…

Tunable Virtual IMU Frame by Weighted Averaging of Multiple Non-Collocated IMUs
Yizhou Gao, Tim Barfoot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00371 https://

Tunable Virtual IMU Frame by Weighted Averaging of Multiple Non-Collocated IMUs
We present a new method to combine several rigidly connected but physically separated IMUs through a weighted average into a single virtual IMU (VIMU). This has the benefits of (i) reducing process noise through averaging, and (ii) allowing for tuning the location of the VIMU. The VIMU can be placed to be coincident with, for example, a camera frame or GNSS frame, thereby offering a quality-of-life improvement for users. Specifically, our VIMU removes the need to consider any lever-arm terms in…

I can't stop thinking of 'The Running Man' whenever I see articles about virtual (animal) fences:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4229k744lo

Cambridge cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river
A council says two to four fall into the water in a city centre during grazing season each year.

Collective Intelligence Outperforms Individual Talent: A Case Study in League of Legends
Angelo Josey Caldeira, Sajan Maharjan, Srijoni Majumdar, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02706

Collective Intelligence Outperforms Individual Talent: A Case Study in League of Legends
Gaming environments are popular testbeds for studying human interactions and behaviors in complex artificial intelligence systems. Particularly, in multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games, individuals collaborate in virtual environments of high realism that involves real-time strategic decision-making and trade-offs on resource management, information collection and sharing, team synergy and collective dynamics. This paper explores whether collective intelligence, emerging from cooperative…

CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
Leying Zhang, Yao Qian, Xiaofei Wang, Manthan Thakker, Dongmei Wang, Jianwei Yu, Haibin Wu, Yuxuan Hu, Jinyu Li, Yanmin Qian, Sheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00885

CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
Generating natural-sounding, multi-speaker dialogue is crucial for applications such as podcast creation, virtual agents, and multimedia content generation. However, existing systems struggle to maintain speaker consistency, model overlapping speech, and synthesize coherent conversations efficiently. In this paper, we introduce CoVoMix2, a fully non-autoregressive framework for zero-shot multi-talker dialogue generation. CoVoMix2 directly predicts mel-spectrograms from multi-stream transcriptio…

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AC-Stark Spectroscopy of Interactions between Moiré Excitons and Polarons
We use nonlinear pump-probe spectroscopy to study optical excitations in a charge-tunable MoSe$_2$\WS$_2$ moiré heterostructure. An intense red-detuned laser pulse creates a photonic dressing of the material by introducing a large virtual population of excitons or exciton polarons in a deep moiré potential. By measuring the resulting ac Stark effect with a weak resonant laser pulse, we gain access to the nature and mutual interactions of the elementary optical excitations. At charge neutralit…

I should learn to do a floating IP, but it sounds complicated! https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/oci-ip-failover/index.html#task-2-configure-the-cluster-and-the-floating-ip

Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Nvim 0.11 was just released.
https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/

Cognitive Load-Driven VR Memory Palaces: Personalizing Focus and Recall Enhancement
Zhengyang Li, Hailin Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02700 https://

Cognitive Load-Driven VR Memory Palaces: Personalizing Focus and Recall Enhancement
Cognitive load, which varies across individuals, can significantly affect focus and memory performance.This study explores the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) with memory palace techniques, aiming to optimize VR environments tailored to individual cognitive load levels to improve focus and memory. We utilized EEG devices, specifically the Oculus Quest 2, to monitor Beta wave activity in 10 participants.By modeling their cognitive load profiles through polynomial regression, we dynamically a…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Roberto Bacani Figueroa Jr, Mai Huong Nguyen, Aliza Ali, Lugsamee Nuamthanom Kimura, Marisa Marisa, Ami Hibatul Jameel, Luisa Almeda Gelisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Amid the growing need to keep learners abreast of rapid technological advancements brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this study explores perceived needs of students in virtual learning environments supported by emerging technologies. A survey was conducted across five leading open universities in Southeast Asia. The study aimed to identify student preferences regarding features of their virtual learning environments that could better prepare them as productive citizens and prof…

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Disruption-aware Microservice Re-orchestration for Cost-efficient Multi-cloud Deployments
Multi-cloud environments enable a cost-efficient scaling of cloud-native applications across geographically distributed virtual nodes with different pricing models. In this context, the resource fragmentation caused by frequent changes in the resource demands of deployed microservices, along with the allocation or termination of new and existing microservices, increases the deployment cost. Therefore, re-orchestrating deployed microservices on a cheaper configuration of multi-cloud nodes offers…

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Virtual Reality Lensing for Surface Approximation in Feature-driven DVR
We present a novel lens technique to support the identification of heterogeneous features in direct volume rendering (DVR) visualizations. In contrast to data-centric transfer function (TF) design, our image-driven approach enables users to specify target features directly within the visualization using deformable quadric surfaces. The lens leverages quadrics for their expressive yet simple parametrization, enabling users to sculpt feature approximations by composing multiple quadric lenses. By…

History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025
https://ift.tt/3ivUIeV
updated: Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:27pmfull name / name of organization: Northeast Popular Culture…
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A study on the effects of mixed explicit and implicit communications in human-virtual-agent interactions
Communication between humans and robots (or virtual agents) is essential for interaction and often inspired by human communication, which uses gestures, facial expressions, gaze direction, and other explicit and implicit means. This work presents an interaction experiment where humans and virtual agents interact through explicit (gestures, manual entries using mouse and keyboard, voice, sound, and information on screen) and implicit (gaze direction, location, facial expressions, and raise of ey…

On the Virtual Euler Characteristic of the Moduli Space of Stable Pairs on Surfaces
Ana Pavlakovi\'c
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On the Virtual Euler Characteristic of the Moduli Space of Stable Pairs on Surfaces
We study the stable pair theory on toric surfaces and determine the virtual tangent space over the fixed point loci. Further, we present a program to compute the virtual Euler characteristic, illustrated by the case of the projective plane. As an application, conjectures regarding rationality and symmetry are supported by verification of a special case.

Maximizing the Promptness of Metaverse Systems using Edge Computing by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tam Ninh Thi-Thanh, Trinh Van Chien, Hung Tran, Nguyen Hoai Son, Van Nhan Vo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02657

Maximizing the Promptness of Metaverse Systems using Edge Computing by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Metaverse and Digital Twin (DT) have attracted much academic and industrial attraction to approach the future digital world. This paper introduces the advantages of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in assisting Metaverse system-based Digital Twin. In this system, we assume that it includes several Metaverse User devices collecting data from the real world to transfer it into the virtual world, a Metaverse Virtual Access Point (MVAP) undertaking the processing of data, and an edge computing ser…

Wow, #pythonPoetry v2 sure introduced many breaking changes. They outsourced `poetry shell` (a very important and IMHO core command for entering a shell with the virtual environment activated) into a plugin (wtf 🤨) that you need to provide separately.
That poetry can't pin itself bit me quite a couple of times with the v2 transition. They also changed the behaviour of the -C flag (r…

Virtual First Betti Number of GGS Groups
Andrew Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23269

Virtual First Betti Number of GGS Groups
We observe a criterion for groups to have vanishing virtual first Betti number and use it to give infinitely many examples of torsion-free, finitely generated, residually finite groups which aren't virtually diffuse. This answers a question raised by Kionke and Raimbault.

NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Haeun Lee, Omin Kwon, Yeonhong Park, Jae W. Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02024

NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing a crucial role in latency-critical, high-throughput services like virtual assistants and code generation. While techniques such as continuous batching and paged attention address service-level objectives (SLOs), and quantization methods accelerate inference, the dynamic and efficient adaptation of precision at runtime remains a significant, largely underexplored challenge. The emergence of hardware support for FP8 arithmetic, offering up to 2x the throug…

Electroluminescence and charge multiplication in liquid xenon with a VCC-like Microstrip Plate
Gonzalo Mart\'inez-Lema, Vitaly Chepel, Amos Breskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24611

Electroluminescence and charge multiplication in liquid xenon with a VCC-like Microstrip Plate
We report on the first observation of electroluminescence and charge amplification with a Virtual Cathode Chamber (VCC) microstrips plate immersed in liquid xenon. Both were observed in an intense non-uniform electric field in the vicinity of 2-$μ$m narrow anode strips deposited, with a 2~mm pitch, on a semiconductive glass substrate (S8900), with a cathode film on its backside. An initial light yield of $\sim$460 VUV photons per drifting electron was measured, which degraded within tens of mi…

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

My Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Nina Vollenbroker is organising a session on 'Environments of Disability' at this year's AHRA conference in Liverpool (22-24 Nov 2025), based on the premise that architectural processes are central producers of disability
Abstracts are due 2nd June, call for papers and more info:

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06268 has been replaced.
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Constraints and Variables Reduction for Optimal Power Flow Using Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks with Virtual Node-Splitting
Power system networks are often modeled as homogeneous graphs, which limits the ability of graph neural network (GNN) to capture individual generator features at the same nodes. By introducing the proposed virtual node-splitting strategy, generator-level attributes like costs, limits, and ramp rates can be fully captured by GNN models, improving GNN's learning capacity and prediction accuracy. Optimal power flow (OPF) problem is used for real-time grid operations. Limited timeframe motivates st…

Believe it or not: This is a #Virtual #Pinball machine existing purely on a PC, no physical playfield. I really should finish this project.

EyeNavGS: A 6-DoF Navigation Dataset and Record-n-Replay Software for Real-World 3DGS Scenes in VR
Zihao Ding, Cheng-Tse Lee, Mufeng Zhu, Tao Guan, Yuan-Chun Sun, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Yao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02380

EyeNavGS: A 6-DoF Navigation Dataset and Record-n-Replay Software for Real-World 3DGS Scenes in VR
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is an emerging media representation that reconstructs real-world 3D scenes in high fidelity, enabling 6-degrees-of-freedom (6-DoF) navigation in virtual reality (VR). However, developing and evaluating 3DGS-enabled applications and optimizing their rendering performance, require realistic user navigation data. Such data is currently unavailable for photorealistic 3DGS reconstructions of real-world scenes. This paper introduces EyeNavGS (EyeNavGS), the first publicly…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09775 has been replaced.
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CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching
Building a virtual cell capable of accurately simulating cellular behaviors in silico has long been a dream in computational biology. We introduce CellFlux, an image-generative model that simulates cellular morphology changes induced by chemical and genetic perturbations using flow matching. Unlike prior methods, CellFlux models distribution-wise transformations from unperturbed to perturbed cell states, effectively distinguishing actual perturbation effects from experimental artifacts such as …

Tensor Resonance in $J/\psi J/\psi$ Scattering from Lattice QCD
Geng Li, Chunjiang Shi, Ying Chen, Wei Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24213 https://…

Tensor Resonance in $J/ψJ/ψ$ Scattering from Lattice QCD
The $S$-wave scattering amplitudes of $J/ψJ/ψ$ with quantum numbers $J^{PC} = 0^{++}$ and $2^{++}$ are determined up to 6600\,MeV using lattice QCD calculations at $m_π\approx 420$ and 250\,MeV. The ${}^1S_0$ $J/ψJ/ψ$ system exhibits a near-threshold attractive interaction, resulting in a virtual bound state with a binding energy of approximately 30-40\,MeV. In contrast, the ${}^5S_2$ $J/ψJ/ψ$ system exhibits a repulsive interaction near threshold. These behaviors are primarily dominated…

Ideal Triangulations and Once-Punctured Surface Bundles
Birch Bryant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21798 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.2179…

Ideal Triangulations and Once-Punctured Surface Bundles
A well-known result of Walsh states that if $\mathcal T^*$ is an ideal triangulation of an atoroidal, acylindrical, irreducible, compact 3-manifold with torus boundary components, then every properly embedded, two-sided, incompressible surface $S$ is isotopic to a spun-normal surface unless $S$ is isotopic to a fiber or virtual fiber. Previously it was unknown if for such a 3-manifold an ideal triangulation in which a fiber spun-normalizes exists. We give a proof of existence and give an algori…

Creo que hoy es un gran día para hablar no tanto de mi experiencia como transmac de closet (por eso de que vivo en México, muy lejos de CDMX y me late mucho la idea de estar vivo) sino la de gestionar un espacio virtual que de a poco se ha convertido en un refugio para mucha gente joven queer en un internet donde cada día se normaliza y crece mšs el discurso de odio.
Como hilito para que no les aparezca la parrafada

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Matthew Prenevost, Aneesh Tarun, Ian Robinson, Michael Nitsche, Gabby Resch, Ali Mazalek, Timothy N. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23310

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
While virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential to revolutionize digital user interaction, how visual information is presented through VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) differs from naturalistic viewing and interactions in physical environments, leading to performance decrements. One critical challenge in VR development is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), which arises due to the intrinsic constraints of approximating the natural viewing geometry through digital displays. Although…

📢 The 2025 GÉANT Innovation Programme has been awarded to the GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative!
Based on the @… Research Cloud, the initiative is a close collaboration between SURF & GÉANT.
Four NRENs —SUNET, Switch, HEAnet & Sikt — will also contribute with their own funding by establishing national tenancies of the GÉANT DRE.

GÉANT Innovation Programme awards its 2025 edition to Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual

SplArt: Articulation Estimation and Part-Level Reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Shengjie Lin, Jiading Fang, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Greg Shakhnarovich, Matthew R. Walter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03594

SplArt: Articulation Estimation and Part-Level Reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Reconstructing articulated objects prevalent in daily environments is crucial for applications in augmented/virtual reality and robotics. However, existing methods face scalability limitations (requiring 3D supervision or costly annotations), robustness issues (being susceptible to local optima), and rendering shortcomings (lacking speed or photorealism). We introduce SplArt, a self-supervised, category-agnostic framework that leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to reconstruct articulated ob…

The final SMARTer Mobility Draft Network is now ready! Join one of five public input meetings:
• 3/31, Mount Clemens
• 4/1, Pontiac
• 4/2, Dearborn
• 4/3, Farmington Hills
• 4/10, Virtual
You can also comment on the interactive map. #DetroitTransit

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About the Caifornia "Virtual Library Card" for the Palace Project...
Most pages and videos neglect a step that is critical if you don't already have a physical library card from a _participating_ local library:
Inside the Palace app, use the “find my library” search function to find “California’s Bookshelf.”
Full instructions:

SEMNAV: A Semantic Segmentation-Driven Approach to Visual Semantic Navigation
Rafael Flor-Rodr\'iguez, Carlos Guti\'errez-\'Alvarez, Francisco Javier Acevedo-Rodr\'iguez, Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo, Roberto J. L\'opez-Sastre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01418

SEMNAV: A Semantic Segmentation-Driven Approach to Visual Semantic Navigation
Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in simulation environments, where rendered scenes of the real world are used, at best. These approaches typically rely on raw RGB data from the virtual scenes, which limits their ability to generalize to real-world environments due to domain adaptation issues. To tackle …

Performance of Confidential Computing GPUs
Antonio Mart\'inez Ibarra, Julian James Stephen, Aurora Gonz\'alez Vidal, K. R. Jayaram, Antonio Fernando Skarmeta G\'omez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16501

Performance of Confidential Computing GPUs
This work examines latency, throughput, and other metrics when performing inference on confidential GPUs. We explore different traffic patterns and scheduling strategies using a single Virtual Machine with one NVIDIA H100 GPU, to perform relaxed batch inferences on multiple Large Language Models (LLMs), operating under the constraint of swapping models in and out of memory, which necessitates efficient control. The experiments simulate diverse real-world scenarios by varying parameters such as …

System Identification for Virtual Sensor-Based Model Predictive Control: Application to a 2-DoF Direct-Drive Robotic Arm
Kosei Tsuji, Ichiro Maruta, Kenji Fujimoto, Tomoyuki Maeda, Yoshihisa Tamase, Tsukasa Shinohara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23138

System Identification for Virtual Sensor-Based Model Predictive Control: Application to a 2-DoF Direct-Drive Robotic Arm
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) offers a powerful approach for controlling complex nonlinear systems, yet faces two key challenges. First, accurately modeling nonlinear dynamics remains difficult. Second, variables directly related to control objectives often cannot be directly measured during operation. Although high-cost sensors can acquire these variables during model development, their use in practical deployment is typically infeasible. To overcome these limitations, we propose a…

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
Daniel Mej\'ias, Inhar Yeregui, \'Angel Mart\'in, Roberto Viola, Pablo Angueira, Jon Montalb\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22132

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
The proliferation of Extended Reality (XR) applications, requiring high-quality, low-latency media streaming, has driven the demand for efficient remote rendering solutions. This paper focuses on holographic conferencing in virtual environments and their required uplink and downlink media transmission capabilities. By examining Media over QUIC (MoQ), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) over QUIC (RoQ), and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), we assess their latency performance over Wi-Fi and 5…

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Vishnu Ramineni, Shivareddy Devarapalli, Balakrishna Pothineni, Prema Kumar Veerapaneni, Aditya Gupta, Pankaj Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24039

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Modern healthcare domain incorporates a feature of digital accessibility to ensure seamless flow of online services for the patients. However, this feature of digital accessibility poses a challenge particularly for patients with disabilities. To eradicate this issue and provide immersive and user-friendly experiences, evolving technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are integrated in medical applications to enhance accessibility. The present research paper aims to stu…

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Zahra Dehghanian, Morteza Abolghasemi, Hossein Azizinaghsh, Amir Vahedi, Hamid Beigy, Hamid R. Rabiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00988

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Digital creators, from indie filmmakers to animation studios, face a persistent bottleneck: translating their creative vision into precise camera movements. Despite significant progress in computer vision and artificial intelligence, current automated filming systems struggle with a fundamental trade-off between mechanical execution and creative intent. Crucially, almost all previous works simplify the subject to a single point-ignoring its orientation and true volume-severely limiting spatial …

DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
Zhao Mandi, Yifan Hou, Dieter Fox, Yashraj Narang, Ajay Mandlekar, Shuran Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24853

DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
We study the problem of functional retargeting: learning dexterous manipulation policies to track object states from human hand-object demonstrations. We focus on long-horizon, bimanual tasks with articulated objects, which is challenging due to large action space, spatiotemporal discontinuities, and embodiment gap between human and robot hands. We propose DexMachina, a novel curriculum-based algorithm: the key idea is to use virtual object controllers with decaying strength: an object is first…

WishGI: Lightweight Static Global Illumination Baking via Spherical Harmonics Fitting
Junke Zhu, Zehan Wu, Qixing Zhang, Cheng Liao, Zhangjin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01288

WishGI: Lightweight Static Global Illumination Baking via Spherical Harmonics Fitting
Global illumination combines direct and indirect lighting to create realistic lighting effects, bringing virtual scenes closer to reality. Static global illumination is a crucial component of virtual scene rendering, leveraging precomputation and baking techniques to significantly reduce runtime computational costs. Unfortunately, many existing works prioritize visual quality by relying on extensive texture storage and massive pixel-level texture sampling, leading to large performance overhead.…

I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld

Just working comfortably on the back deck on a warm spring Saturday, like you do.
#AppleVisionPro #spring

Vision-Based Assistive Technologies for People with Cerebral Visual Impairment: A Review and Focus Study
Bhanuka Gamage, Leona Holloway, Nicola McDowell, Thanh-Toan Do, Nicholas Price, Arthur Lowery, Kim Marriott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22983

Vision-Based Assistive Technologies for People with Cerebral Visual Impairment: A Review and Focus Study
Over the past decade, considerable research has investigated Vision-Based Assistive Technologies (VBAT) to support people with vision impairments to understand and interact with their immediate environment using machine learning, computer vision, image enhancement, and/or augmented/virtual reality. However, this has almost totally overlooked a growing demographic: people with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI). Unlike ocular vision impairments, CVI arises from damage to the brain's visual process…

Network Digital Twin for 6G and Beyond: An End-to-End View Across Multi-Domain Network Ecosystems
Dinh-Hieu Tran, Nazar Waheed, Yuris Mulya Saputra, Xingqin Lin, Cong T. Nguyen, Tedros Salih Abdu, Van Nhan Vo, Van-Quan Pham, Madyan Alsenwi, Abuzar Babikir Mohammad Adam, Symeon Chatzinotas, Eva Lagaunas, Hung Tran, Tu Ho Dac, Nguyen Van Huynh
https://…

Network Digital Twin for 6G and Beyond: An End-to-End View Across Multi-Domain Network Ecosystems
With the rapid development of technology, the number of smart mobile users is increasing, accompanied by growing demands from applications such as virtual/augmented reality (VR/XR), remote surgery, autonomous vehicles, and real-time holographic communications, all of which require high transmission rates and ultra-low latency in 6G and beyond networks (6G+). This poses enormous challenges in efficiently deploying large-scale networks, including network design, planning, troubleshooting, optimiz…

Quality assessment of 3D human animation: Subjective and objective evaluation
Rim Rekik, Stefanie Wuhrer, Ludovic Hoyet, Katja Zibrek, Anne-H\'el\`ene Olivier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23301

Quality assessment of 3D human animation: Subjective and objective evaluation
Virtual human animations have a wide range of applications in virtual and augmented reality. While automatic generation methods of animated virtual humans have been developed, assessing their quality remains challenging. Recently, approaches introducing task-oriented evaluation metrics have been proposed, leveraging neural network training. However, quality assessment measures for animated virtual humans that are not generated with parametric body models have yet to be developed. In this contex…

AI-powered virtual eye: perspective, challenges and opportunities
Yue Wu, Yibo Guo, Yulong Yan, Jiancheng Yang, Xin Zhou, Ching-Yu Cheng, Danli Shi, Mingguang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05516

AI-powered virtual eye: perspective, challenges and opportunities
We envision the "virtual eye" as a next-generation, AI-powered platform that uses interconnected foundation models to simulate the eye's intricate structure and biological function across all scales. Advances in AI, imaging, and multiomics provide a fertile ground for constructing a universal, high-fidelity digital replica of the human eye. This perspective traces the evolution from early mechanistic and rule-based models to contemporary AI-driven approaches, integrating in a unified model with…

CoDA: Coordinated Diffusion Noise Optimization for Whole-Body Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Huaijin Pi, Zhi Cen, Zhiyang Dou, Taku Komura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21437

CoDA: Coordinated Diffusion Noise Optimization for Whole-Body Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Synthesizing whole-body manipulation of articulated objects, including body motion, hand motion, and object motion, is a critical yet challenging task with broad applications in virtual humans and robotics. The core challenges are twofold. First, achieving realistic whole-body motion requires tight coordination between the hands and the rest of the body, as their movements are interdependent during manipulation. Second, articulated object manipulation typically involves high degrees of freedom …