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Ufuk Topcu

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arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-21

Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing

Kevin Butler, Christopher Stewart, Nils Aschenbruck, Alina Gerall, Weisong Shi, Deborah Silver, et al.

The report envisions a decade in which drones move goods, medical supplies, and information at a scale comparable to national infrastructure investments like highways and the electric grid. Potential applications include natural disaster detection drones that spot wildfire source…

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arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.HC2026-07-09

VEGAS: Human-Aligned Video Caption Evaluation via Gaze

Shenghui Chen, Po-han Li, Ximeng Sun, Shijia Yang, Emad Barsoum, Zicheng Liu, et al.

Vision-language models excel at video captioning, yet typically generate descriptions that fail to capture individual viewers' attention. We propose VEGAS (Video caption Evaluation via GAze Score), a training-free metric that leverages test-time gaze to sample personalized, atten…

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arxivcs.RO2026-07-01

Path Planning in Physically Viable World Models

Su Ann Low, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao, Xingjian Li, Adam J. Thorpe, Ufuk Topcu, Krishna Kumar

Robots deployed in unstructured outdoor environments often plan from scene reconstructions collected before deployment because operators cannot remap large or remote sites before every mission. As a result, robots must make long-horizon planning decisions using stale maps that as…

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