Skillful prediction of biomass-burning activity several days in advance is important for air-quality forecasting and aerosol prediction. Two operational constraints motivate this work. First, the GBBEPx satellite fire radiative power (FRP) product used to initialize NOAA's GEFS-Aerosols is available with about a 1.5-da …
Force-aware manipulation typically relies on specialized force or tactile sensors. We show that force-aware manipulation can instead be achieved through visual force prediction from the deformation of a compliant Fin Ray gripper. Our approach trains two models. First, we train a visual force estimator on calibration da …
Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) provide rich contact information for robotic manipulation, but existing designs can be hard to simplify and adapt to the size and constraints of humanoid fingertips. We introduce \textbf{GlowTact}, a pressure-responsive vision-based tactile sensing mechanism that directly visualizes …
Accurate medium-range precipitation forecasting is important for hydrometeorological risk management and disaster mitigation, yet remains challenging for numerical weather prediction and data-driven systems, particularly for precipitation intensity, spatial structure, and ensemble reliability at longer lead times. This …
Rapidly advancing location-awareness technologies and services have collected and stored massive amounts of moving object trajectory data with attribute information that involves various degrees of spatial scales, timescales, and levels of complexity. Unfortunately, interesting behaviors regarding combinations of attri …