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Publications
Long-term survival and functional outcomes of critically ill patients with hematologic malignancies: a Canadian multicenter prospective study
Many roboticists hope to build robots and develop technologies that would one day help vulnerable populations to improve their quality of li… (see more)fe. As there are over 2.2 billion people with visual impairments in the world, this vulnerable population is a prime target for robotic assistants to help. In a discussion with a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist, someone who helps individuals with visual impairments navigate and perform daily tasks effectively, some interesting and counterintuitive questions were raised about technological developments, particularly robots. While these devices were meant to help the BVI population, many are, in reality, not practically beneficial. In this article, we highlight certain misconceptions about the BVI population and their needs. We emphasize the mismatch between robotics research and the needs of the individuals with visual impairments, especially from the lens of HRI researchers.
2024-03-10
Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (published)
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant advancements in recent years, particularly with the development of large langua… (see more)ge and diffusion models. These generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various tasks, such as text generation and image and audio synthesis. Concurrently, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has made significant strides in solving complex sequential decision-making problems with the help of external knowledge sources . However, there remains untapped potential in combining generative models with RL algorithms to tackle real-world challenges, particularly to improve sample efficiency of tabula rasa training by introducing priors from related domains such as visual question-answering, image captioning and image generation.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of generative AI and reinforcement learning to explore the latest advances, methodologies, and applications. By fostering collaborations between these two domains, we intend to unlock new opportunities for addressing complex problems that lie at the intersection of both fields.
Deep spectroscopic surveys with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed that some of the brightest infrared so… (see more)urces in the sky correspond to concentrations of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at high redshift. Among these, the SPT2349-56 protocluster system is amongst the most extreme examples given its high source density and integrated star formation rate. We conducted a deep Lyman-alpha line emission survey around SPT2349-56 using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in order to characterize this uniquely dense environment. Taking advantage of the deep three-dimensional nature of this survey, we performed a sensitive search for Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) toward the core and northern extension of the protocluster, which correspond to the brightest infrared regions in this field. Using a smoothed narrowband image extracted from the MUSE datacube around the protocluster redshift, we searched for possible extended structures. We identify only three LAEs at
The 5-choice serial reaction time task (5-CSRTT) is commonly used to assess attention in rodents. Manipulation of this task by decreasing th… (see more)e light stimulus duration is often used to probe attentional capacity and causes a decrease in accuracy and an increase in omissions. However, although a decrease in response accuracy is commonly interpreted as a decrease in attention, it is more difficult to interpret an increase in omissions in terms of attentional performance. Here we present a series of experiments in rats that seeks to investigate the origins of these key behavioral measures of attention in the 5-CSRTT. After an initial training in the 5-CSRTT, rats were tested in a variable stimulus duration procedure to increase task difficulty and probe visual attentional capacity under several specific controlled conditions. We found that response accuracy reflects visuospatial sustained attentional processing, as commonly interpreted, while response omission reflects rats’ ignorance about the stimulus location, presumably due to failure to pay attention to the curved wall during its presentation. Moreover, when rats lack of relevant information, they choose not to respond instead of responding randomly. Overall, our results indicate that response accuracy and response omission thus correspond to two distinct attentional states.