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20072026
most citedHow should my chatbot interact? A survey on human-chatbot interaction design

567 citations

471 papers

physics.class-ph2026

An Overview of Classical Scattering by a Lennard-Jones Potential

Tiago Kroetz

We present a numerical and conceptual overview of classical scattering under a Lennard-Jones potential. All results were obtained by direct integration of particle trajectories in…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing Lorentz Invariance Violation in Cosmogenic Neutrino Propagation with KM3-230213A

Rodrigo Sasse, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, Rita de Cássia dos Anjos

We investigate superluminal Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in the neutrino sector using cosmogenic neutrino fluxes generated with ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray propagation models…

astro-ph.HE2026

Hadronic origin of gamma rays and neutrinos from blazars: Multi-messenger implications and observational constraints

Rodrigo Sasse, Rita de Cássia dos Anjos

We investigate whether cosmogenic gamma rays and neutrinos from ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) produced in hadronically active blazars can significantly contribute to the o…

math.RA2026

Sum of two strictly n-zero matrices

Ivan Gargate, Edgar Saenz

In this work we investigate when an Jordan matrix can be written as the sum of two strictly -zero matrices. In particular, we show that if is an algebra…

cs.HC2026★ 4 cited

A Symbolic Machine Learning Approach for Cybersickness Potential-Cause Estimation

Thiago Porcino, Érick Oliveira Rodrigues, Flavia Bernardini +2

Virtual reality (VR) and head-mounted displays are constantly gaining popularity in various fields such as education, military, entertainment, and bio/medical informatics. Although…

cs.HC2026★ 25 cited

Using the gameplay and user data to predict and identify causes of cybersickness manifestation in virtual reality games

Thiago Porcino, Erick Oliveira Rodrigues, Alexandre Silva +2

Virtual reality (VR) is an imminent trend in games, education, entertainment, military, and health applications, as the use of head-mounted displays is accessible to everyone. Whil…

astro-ph.GA2026

When galaxies cross cold fronts: wind tunnel simulations of ram pressure stripping

Elvis A. Mello-Terencio, Rubens E. G. Machado, Richards P. Albuquerque

Cluster collisions and mergers are among the most energetic phenomena in the low redshift Universe. These interactions disturb the intracluster medium creating regions with density…

astro-ph.HE2026

Non-thermal emission from the vicinity of the magnetar CXOU J171405.7-381031

Manoel F. Sousa, Rita. C. Anjos

Magnetars are neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields (- G) and are promising candidates for high-energy particle acceleration. We present a multiw…

astro-ph.HE2026

Multiwavelength study of non-thermal emission in the Swift J1834.9-0846/W41 region

Manoel F. Sousa, Rita C. Dos Anjos, Vitor de Souza

We investigate the origin of non-thermal emission from the Swift J1834-0846/W41 region by modeling its broadband spectral energy distribution from radio to TeV energies within lept…

cs.HC2026★ 35 cited

Identifying cybersickness causes in virtual reality games using symbolic machine learning algorithms

Thiago Porcino, Erick Oliveira Rodrigues, Flavia Bernardini +2

Virtual reality (VR) and head-mounted displays are constantly gaining popularity in various fields such as education, military, entertainment, and health. Although such technologie…

cs.CV2026

Applying Deep Learning for cockpit segmentation in the context of mixed reality

Alexandre Leles Sousa, Pedro de Oliveira Nielson, Erick Oliveira Rodrigues +2

Computer vision is an area that has been growing continuously. With the advance of technologies with a first-person view, new development opportunities have emerged inside the area…

cs.GR2026

A Novel Procedural Generation for Level Design of Mansions and Dungeons

Isaac Fiuza Vieira, Kathya Silvia Collazos Linares, Esteban Walter Gonzalez Clua +1

Procedural Content Generation (PCG) has become an essential technique in game development due to its ability to reduce production time and cost while increasing replayability and v…

cs.LG2026★ 2 cited

A Systematic Evaluation of Current Architectures in Wind Power Forecasting

Vinicius Bortolini, Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Erick Oliveira Rodrigues +1

Interval wind speed forecasting is essential for the efficient integration of wind energy into power systems, as it accounts for the inherent uncertainty of wind resources. This st…

astro-ph.HE2026

High-Synchrotron-Peaked BL Lacs as Multi-Messenger Sources: Connecting Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos

Luiz Augusto Stuani Pereira, Rita C. Anjos

High-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) BL Lac objects are extreme particle accelerators whose synchrotron emission peaks at high frequencies, typically in the UV-to-X-ray band ($ν_{\rm peak…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

Iterative Framework For Data Augmentation Of Segmented Fingerprints

João Leonardo H. D. Agnol, Wesley Augusto de Bona, Erick Oliveira Rodrigues +4

Infant biometrics presents unique challenges due to the physiological differences between infants and adults, compounded by the scarcity of available data for research that limits…

cs.CV2026

Recursive Class Connectivity Classification (R3C) Applied to Binary Image Segmentation for Improved Infant Fingerprint Enhancement

Joao Leonardo Harres Dall Agnol, Luiz Fernando Puttow Southier, Jefferson Tales 0liva +5

Image enhancement plays a crucial role in infant fingerprint matching, as child-specific characteristics such as smaller finger dimensions and thinner ridge structures often degrad…

cs.LG2026★ 21 cited

Electricity Consumption Forecasting: An Approach Using Cooperative Ensemble Learning with SHapley Additive exPlanations

Eduardo Luiz Alba, Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Matheus Henrique Dal Molin Ribeiro +1

Electricity expense management presents significant challenges, as this resource is susceptible to various influencing factors. In universities, the demand for this resource is rap…

cs.CV2026★ 5 cited

Machine learning applied to emerald gemstone grading: framework proposal and creation of a public dataset

FB Pena, D Crabi, Sandro C Izidoro +2

The grading of gemstones is currently a manual procedure performed by gemologists. A popular approach uses reference stones, where those are visually inspected by specialists that…

cs.CV2026★ 2 cited

A Novel Approach for the Counting of Wood Logs Using cGANs and Image Processing Techniques

João VC Mazzochin, Giovani Bernardes Vitor, Gustavo Tiecker +4

This study tackles the challenge of precise wood log counting, where applications of the proposed methodology can span from automated approaches for materials management, surveilla…

q-bio.TO2026★ 6 cited

ROI Extraction in Thermographic Breast Images Using Genetic Algorithms

LC Mendes, EO Rodrigues, Sandro C Izidoro +2

This work proposes the use of Genetic Algorithms (GA) to identify the area of the breast from the background in thermographic breast images. The proposed method uses color informat…

eess.IV2026★ 5 cited

Local-sensitive connectivity filter (ls-cf): A post-processing unsupervised improvement of the frangi, hessian and vesselness filters for multimodal vessel segmentation

Erick O Rodrigues, Lucas O Rodrigues, João HP Machado +5

A retinal vessel analysis is a procedure that can be used as an assessment of risks to the eye. This work proposes an unsupervised multimodal approach that improves the response of…

cs.CV2026★ 73 cited

ELEMENT: Multi-Modal Retinal Vessel Segmentation Based on a Coupled Region Growing and Machine Learning Approach

Erick O. Rodrigues, Aura Conci, Panos Liatsis

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy…

cs.CV2026★ 5 cited

X-Ray cardiac angiographic vessel segmentation based on pixel classification using machine learning and region growing

E O Rodrigues, L O Rodrigues, J J Lima +6

This work proposes a pixel-classification approach for vessel segmentation in x-ray angiograms. The proposal uses textural features such as anisotropic diffusion, features based on…

cs.CV2026★ 9 cited

Cardiac fat segmentation using computed tomography and an image-to-image conditional generative adversarial neural network

Guilherme Santos da Silva, Dalcimar Casanova, Jefferson Tales Oliva +1

In recent years, research has highlighted the association between increased adipose tissue surrounding the human heart and elevated susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases such a…