arxivcs.RO2026-07-05
SurgAM: Surgical Affordance Map Prediction with Multimodal Feature Fusion for Robot Autonomy
Lei Song, Yonghao Long, Mengya Xu, Jiayi Geng, Xiuyuan Chen, Qi Dou
Surgical automation is being increasingly studied, yet bridging visual scene understanding with autonomous action planning remains a fundamental challenge. While much research effort has been made on scene perception (e.g., tool recognition and scene segmentation), understanding…