3 papers
cs.CV2026
AffordTissue: Dense Affordance Prediction for Tool-Action Specific Tissue Interaction
Aiza Maksutova, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hao Ding +5
Surgical action automation has progressed rapidly toward achieving surgeon-like dexterous control, driven primarily by advances in learning from demonstration and vision-language-a…
cs.CV2026
Towards Controllable Video Synthesis of Routine and Rare OR Events
Dominik Schneider, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Sampath Rapuri +8
Purpose: Curating large-scale datasets of operating room (OR) workflow, encompassing rare, safety-critical, or atypical events, remains operationally and ethically challenging. Thi…
cs.CV2025
Counterfactual World Models via Digital Twin-conditioned Video Diffusion
Yiqing Shen, Aiza Maksutova, Chenjia Li +1
World models learn to predict the temporal evolution of visual observations given a control signal, potentially enabling agents to reason about environments through forward simulat…