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Tianqi Yu

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LooperMuscle: Fast and Stable Learning of Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking via Structured Mixture-of-Experts

FastSAC-style methods significantly reduce humanoid motion training time but often suffer from notable performance degradation compared with PPO in whole-body tracking tasks. We target this speed-performance gap by introducing LooperMuscle, a composed expert policy learning framework that restores tracking quality while preserving high training efficiency. LooperMuscle combines a semantically structured mixture-of-experts actor, an expert-aware distributional critic, and contribution-routed replay with deferred curriculum scheduling. These three components form a closed training loop in which expert contributions guide data routing, routed data shape value learning, and value gradients in turn refine expert specialization. Empirically, our approach substantially outperforms vanilla FastSAC in motion tracking accuracy while requiring far less wall-clock time than PPO: where FastSAC trains in about 15 minutes but underperforms, and PPO achieves stronger results but requires about 6 hours, LooperMuscle recovers a substantial fraction of the remaining gap to PPO in roughly 45 minutes of simulation training, delivering practical efficiency for rapid policy iteration. The code will be released to benefit the research community at https://loopermuscle.github.io/.

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XDen-1K: A Density Field Dataset of Real-World Objects

A deep understanding of the physical world is essential for robotic manipulation and physically realistic simulation. While current methods, including VLM-based and other learning-based approaches, have shown promise in physical property inference, their evaluation is often hindered by the lack of physically grounded reference data. To address this gap, we introduce XDen-1K, the first large-scale multimodal dataset that provides physically grounded density field for real-world objects. XDen-1K comprises 1,000 real-world objects spanning 137 categories, with comprehensive data for each object, including a high-resolution, carefully curated 3D geometric model with part-level annotations and paired real-world biplanar X-ray scans. In addition, XDen-1K includes high-fidelity volumetric density field reconstructed from sparse biplanar X-ray views via a novel optimization framework. XDen-1K also provides a benchmark for density estimation and enables X-ray-conditioned volumetric segmentation. Experiments further demonstrate that the center-of-mass prior derived by XDen-1K can improve robotic manipulation performance. By providing real-world X-ray scans and physics-consistent density field, XDen-1K establishes a foundation for advancing physical property inference and embodied AI.

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SPIDER: Structure-Preferential Implicit Deep Network for Biplanar X-ray Reconstruction

Biplanar X-ray imaging is widely used in health screening, postoperative rehabilitation evaluation of orthopedic diseases, and injury surgery due to its rapid acquisition, low radiation dose, and straightforward setup. However, 3D volume reconstruction from only two orthogonal projections represents a profoundly ill-posed inverse problem, owing to the intrinsic lack of depth information and irreducible ambiguities in soft-tissue visualization. Some existing methods can reconstruct skeletal structures and Computed Tomography (CT) volumes, they often yield incomplete bone geometry, imprecise tissue boundaries, and a lack of anatomical realism, thereby limiting their clinical utility in scenarios such as surgical planning and postoperative assessment. In this study, we introduce SPIDER, a novel supervised framework designed to reconstruct CT volumes from biplanar X-ray images. SPIDER incorporates tissue structure as prior (e.g., anatomical segmentation) into an implicit neural representation decoder in the form of joint supervision through a unified encoder-decoder architecture. This design enables the model to jointly learn image intensities and anatomical structures in a pixel-aligned fashion. To address the challenges posed by sparse input and structural ambiguity, SPIDER directly embeds anatomical constraints into the reconstruction process, thereby enhancing structural continuity and reducing soft-tissue artifacts. We conduct comprehensive experiments on clinical head CT datasets and show that SPIDER generates anatomically accurate reconstructions from only two projections. Furthermore, our approach demonstrates strong potential in downstream segmentation tasks, underscoring its utility in personalized treatment planning and image-guided surgical navigation.

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CMG-Net: Robust Normal Estimation for Point Clouds via Chamfer Normal Distance and Multi-scale Geometry

This work presents an accurate and robust method for estimating normals from point clouds. In contrast to predecessor approaches that minimize the deviations between the annotated and the predicted normals directly, leading to direction inconsistency, we first propose a new metric termed Chamfer Normal Distance to address this issue. This not only mitigates the challenge but also facilitates network training and substantially enhances the network robustness against noise. Subsequently, we devise an innovative architecture that encompasses Multi-scale Local Feature Aggregation and Hierarchical Geometric Information Fusion. This design empowers the network to capture intricate geometric details more effectively and alleviate the ambiguity in scale selection. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets, particularly in scenarios contaminated by noise. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/YingruiWoo/CMG-Net_Pytorch.

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DeepACC:Automate Chromosome Classification based on Metaphase Images using Deep Learning Framework Fused with Prior Knowledge

Chromosome classification is an important but difficult and tedious task in karyotyping. Previous methods only classify manually segmented single chromosome, which is far from clinical practice. In this work, we propose a detection based method, DeepACC, to locate and fine classify chromosomes simultaneously based on the whole metaphase image. We firstly introduce the Additive Angular Margin Loss to enhance the discriminative power of model. To alleviate batch effects, we transform decision boundary of each class case-by-case through a siamese network which make full use of prior knowledges that chromosomes usually appear in pairs. Furthermore, we take the clinically seven group criterion as a prior knowledge and design an additional Group Inner-Adjacency Loss to further reduce inter-class similarities. 3390 metaphase images from clinical laboratory are collected and labelled to evaluate the performance. Results show that the new design brings encouraging performance gains comparing to the state-of-the-art baselines.

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DeepACEv2: Automated Chromosome Enumeration in Metaphase Cell Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Chromosome enumeration is an essential but tedious procedure in karyotyping analysis. To automate the enumeration process, we develop a chromosome enumeration framework, DeepACEv2, based on the region based object detection scheme. The framework is developed following three steps. Firstly, we take the classical ResNet-101 as the backbone and attach the Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) to the backbone. The FPN takes full advantage of the multiple level features, and we only output the level of feature map that most of the chromosomes are assigned to. Secondly, we enhance the region proposal network's ability by adding a newly proposed Hard Negative Anchors Sampling to extract unapparent but essential information about highly confusing partial chromosomes. Next, to alleviate serious occlusion problems, besides the traditional detection branch, we novelly introduce an isolated Template Module branch to extract unique embeddings of each proposal by utilizing the chromosome's geometric information. The embeddings are further incorporated into the No Maximum Suppression (NMS) procedure to improve the detection of overlapping chromosomes. Finally, we design a Truncated Normalized Repulsion Loss and add it to the loss function to avoid inaccurate localization caused by occlusion. In the newly collected 1375 metaphase images that came from a clinical laboratory, a series of ablation studies validate the effectiveness of each proposed module. Combining them, the proposed DeepACEv2 outperforms all the previous methods, yielding the Whole Correct Ratio(WCR)(%) with respect to images as 71.39, and the Average Error Ratio(AER)(%) with respect to chromosomes as about 1.17.

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