Autonomous biomedical laboratories increasingly rely on visual perception to recognize, localize, and manipulate transparent plasticware, yet high-quality real-world datasets for this setting remain limited. The scarcity of domain-relevant data is particularly restrictive in clut…
Foundation models are increasingly used as image feature extractors for mammography, but their robustness under external domain shift remains unclear. We benchmark 15 foundation-model backbones across breast density, BI-RADS severity, and cancer status using a unified frozen-back…
We study why diffusion autoencoders can achieve similar image quality while learning substantially different latent structures. We trace this behaviour to optimisation dynamics; we analyse curves of image reconstruction against latent representation quality, revealing trajectorie…