6 papers
AquaVLM: Improving Underwater Situation Awareness with Mobile Vision Language Models
Beitong Tian, Lingzhi Zhao, Bo Chen +5
Underwater activities like scuba diving enable millions annually to explore marine environments for recreation and scientific research. Maintaining situational awareness and effect…
Crowdsourcing Ubiquitous Indoor Localization with Non-Cooperative Wi-Fi Ranging
Emerson Sie, Enguang Fan, Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey +1
Indoor localization opens the path to potentially transformative applications. Although many indoor localization methods have been proposed over the years, they remain too impracti…
Transforming the Hybrid Cloud for Emerging AI Workloads
Deming Chen, Alaa Youssef, Ruchi Pendse +42
This white paper, developed through close collaboration between IBM Research and UIUC researchers within the IIDAI Institute, envisions transforming hybrid cloud systems to meet th…
Support is All You Need for Certified VAE Training
Changming Xu, Debangshu Banerjee, Deepak Vasisht +1
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have become increasingly popular and deployed in safety-critical applications. In such applications, we want to give certified probabilistic guarant…
Towards Scalable Foundation Model for Multi-modal and Hyperspectral Geospatial Data
Haozhe Si, Yuxuan Wan, Minh Do +3
Geospatial raster data, such as that collected by satellite-based imaging systems at different times and spectral bands, hold immense potential for enabling a wide range of high-im…
AquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices
Beitong Tian, Lingzhi Zhao, Bo Chen +5
Underwater communication is essential for both recreational and scientific activities, such as scuba diving. However, existing methods remain highly constrained by environmental ch…