Publications

4,068 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Kato, S., Wang, P., Fujihashi, T., Markham, A., "Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP55912.2026.11463668, May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-040 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kato2026may,
    • author = {Kato, Sorachi and Wang, Pu and Fujihashi, Takuya and Markham, Andrew},
    • title = {{Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463668},
    • issn = {2379-190X},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-6701-9},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-040}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP55912.2026.11460631, May 2026, pp. 22582-22586.
    BibTeX TR2026-033 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {22582--22586},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11460631},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-033}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Saijo, K., Paissan, F., Han, J., Delcroix, M., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP55912.2026.11462393, May 2026, pp. 14417-14421.
    BibTeX TR2026-034 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may2,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Saijo, Kohei and Paissan, Francesco and Han, Jiangyu and Delcroix, Marc and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {14417--14421},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462393},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-034}
    • }
  •  Takahashi, R., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-039 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Takahashi2026may,
    • author = {Takahashi, Ryuhei and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
    • title = {{DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-039}
    • }
  •  Zhang, H., Ma, Y., Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Boufounos, P.T., "ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP55912.2026.11464733, May 2026, pp. 946-950.
    BibTeX TR2026-041 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2026may,
    • author = {Zhang, Haoyu and Ma, Yanting and Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Boufounos, Petros T.},
    • title = {{ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {946--950},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464733},
    • issn = {1520-6149},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-6702-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-041}
    • }
  •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP55912.2026.11462776, May 2026, pp. 21992-21996.
    BibTeX TR2026-035 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Aihara2026may2,
    • author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {21992--21996},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462776},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-035}
    • }
  •  Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Ma, Y., Mansour, H., "Unambiguous Range Extension for1 Doppler Single-Photon Lidar", Optics Express, DOI: 10.1364/​OE.592528, Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 15933-15952, May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-050 PDF
    • @article{Kitichotkul2026apr,
    • author = {Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Ma, Yanting and Mansour, Hassan},
    • title = {{Unambiguous range extension for Doppler single-photon lidar}},
    • journal = {Optics Express},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 34,
    • number = 9,
    • pages = {15933--15952},
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1364/OE.592528},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-050}
    • }
  •  Rapp, J., Kitichotkul, R., Ma, Y., Mansour, H., "Velocity estimation with single-photon lidar", SPIE Conference on Advanced Photon Counting Techniques, Mark A. Itzler, Joshua C. Bienfang, K. Alex McIntosh, Eds., DOI: 10.1117/​12.3097621, April 2026, vol. 14019, pp. 1401903.
    BibTeX TR2026-051 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Rapp2026apr,
    • author = {Rapp, Joshua and Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Ma, Yanting and Mansour, Hassan},
    • title = {{Velocity estimation with single-photon lidar}},
    • booktitle = {Advanced Photon Counting Techniques XX},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Mark A. Itzler, Joshua C. Bienfang, K. Alex McIntosh},
    • volume = 14019,
    • pages = 1401903,
    • month = apr,
    • publisher = {SPIE},
    • doi = {10.1117/12.3097621},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-051}
    • }
  •  Bimbraw, K., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "GPT Sonography: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via a Large Vision-Language Model", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/​ACCESS.2026.3687477, Vol. 14, pp. 70724-70736, April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-054 PDF
    • @article{Bimbraw2026may,
    • author = {Bimbraw, Keshav and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{GPT Sonography: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via a Large Vision-Language Model}},
    • journal = {IEEE Access},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 14,
    • pages = {70724--70736},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3687477},
    • issn = {2169-3536},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-054}
    • }
  •  Suzuki, K., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Hori, C., Brand, M., Romeres, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Embedding Morphology into Transformers for Cross-Robot Policy Learning", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-048 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Suzuki2026apr,
    • author = {Suzuki, Kei and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Hori, Chiori and Brand, Matthew and Romeres, Diego and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Embedding Morphology into Transformers for Cross-Robot Policy Learning}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Efficient Spatial Reasoning},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-048}
    • }
  •  Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Directional Embedding Smoothing for Robust Vision Language Models", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Agents in the Wild, April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-049 PDF Software Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Wang2026apr4,
    • author = {{Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Directional Embedding Smoothing for Robust Vision Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Agents in the Wild},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-049}
    • }
  •  Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., Hori, C., Cherian, A., Zhao, D., "SpinBench: 3D Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026, C. Vondrick and B. Hariharan and C. Raffel and L. Pinto and D. Yang and A. Faust, Eds., April 2026, pp. 70072-70141.
    BibTeX TR2026-045 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2026apr2,
    • author = {Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu and Hori, Chiori and Cherian, Anoop and Zhao, Ding},
    • title = {{SpinBench: 3D Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {C. Vondrick and B. Hariharan and C. Raffel and L. Pinto and D. Yang and A. Faust},
    • pages = {70072--70141},
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-045}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference on the Fly", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-044 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026apr,
    • author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye}},
    • title = {{TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference on the Fly}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Test-Time Updates (TTU)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-044}
    • }
  •  Wang, Z., Hu, H., Deng, X., Mowlavi, S., Nakahira, Y., "OpInf-LLM: Parametric PDE Solving with LLMs via Operator Inference", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI&PDE), April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-043 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2026apr2,
    • author = {Wang, Zhuoyuan and Hu, Hanjiang and Deng, Xiyu and Mowlavi, Saviz and Nakahira, Yorie},
    • title = {{OpInf-LLM: Parametric PDE Solving with LLMs via Operator Inference}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI\&PDE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-043}
    • }
  •  Wang, Z., Romagnoli, R., Mowlavi, S., Nakahira, Y., "Physics-Informed Deep B-Spline Networks", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI&PDE), April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-046 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2026apr3,
    • author = {Wang, Zhuoyuan and Romagnoli, Raffaele and Mowlavi, Saviz and Nakahira, Yorie},
    • title = {{Physics-Informed Deep B-Spline Networks}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI\&PDE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-046}
    • }
  •  Zhai, H., Qiao, H., Mansour, H., Laughman, C.R., "Scalable Physics-Informed Neural Differential Equations and Data-Driven Algorithms for HVAC Systems", arXiv, April 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Zhai2026apr,
    • author = {Zhai, Hanfeng and Qiao, Hongtao and Mansour, Hassan and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Scalable Physics-Informed Neural Differential Equations and Data-Driven Algorithms for HVAC Systems}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18438}
    • }
  •  Li, X., Wang, Y., Jiang, Z.-P., "Adaptive Dynamic Programming with Control Barrier Function for Safety-Critical Control Applications", SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, DOI: 10.1360/​SSI-2025-0475, Vol. 56, No. 5, April 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-104 PDF
    • @article{Li2026apr,
    • author = {Li, Xianning and Wang, Yebin and Jiang, Zhong-Ping},
    • title = {{Adaptive Dynamic Programming with Control Barrier Function for Safety-Critical Control Applications}},
    • journal = {SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 56,
    • number = 5,
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1360/SSI-2025-0475},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-104}
    • }
  •  Ryo, H., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., Hato, J., "Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models", International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, DOI: 10.1109/​ISDFS69419.2026.11458930, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-036 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ryo2026mar,
    • author = {Ryo, Hase and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran and Hato, Jumpei},
    • title = {{Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11458930},
    • issn = {2768-1831},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-7310-2},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-036}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Chen, X., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Wang, P., Brand, M., "LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor, Eds., DOI: 10.1609/​aaai.v40i27.39425, March 2026, vol. 40, pp. 22644-22652.
    BibTeX TR2026-018 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026jan,
    • author = {{{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Chen, Xiangyu and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Wang, Pu and Brand, Matthew}}},
    • title = {{{LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention}}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor},
    • volume = 40,
    • number = 27,
    • pages = {22644--22652},
    • month = jan,
    • publisher = {AAAI Press},
    • doi = {10.1609/aaai.v40i27.39425},
    • issn = {2374-3468},
    • isbn = {978-1-57735-906-7},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-018}
    • }
  •  Shenoy, V., Lohit, S., Mansour, H., Chellappa, R., Marks, T.K., "Recovering Pulse Waves from Video Using Deep Unrolling and Deep Equilibrium Models", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​TIP.2026.3671653, Vol. 35, pp. 2755-2770, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-031 PDF
    • @article{Shenoy2026mar,
    • author = {Shenoy, Vineet and Lohit, Suhas and Mansour, Hassan and Chellappa, Rama and Marks, Tim K.},
    • title = {{Recovering Pulse Waves from Video Using Deep Unrolling and Deep Equilibrium Models}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 35,
    • pages = {2755--2770},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/TIP.2026.3671653},
    • issn = {1941-0042},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-031}
    • }
  •  Khattar, V., Rashid, M.R.U., Choudhury, M., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Jin, M., Wang, Y., "Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Khattar2026mar,
    • author = {{Khattar, Vanshaj and Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Choudhury, Moumita and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Jin, Ming and Wang, Ye}},
    • title = {{Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15417}
    • }
  •  Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Sun, S., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Wang, B., "Presentation of Team MELSUR's Achievements in the COMPUMAG 2025 Galileo Ferraris Contest", IEEJ, March 2026.
    BibTeX
    • @inproceedings{Yamamoto2026mar,
    • author = {Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Sun, Siyuan and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Wang, Bingnan},
    • title = {{Presentation of Team MELSUR's Achievements in the COMPUMAG 2025 Galileo Ferraris Contest}},
    • booktitle = {IEEJ},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar
    • }
  •  Sohail, M.A., Koike-Akino, T., "Geo-ADAPT-VQE: Quantum Information Metric-Aware Circuit Optimization for Quantum Chemistry Mohammad Aamir Sohail, Toshiaki Koike-Akino", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Sohail2026mar,
    • author = {Sohail, Mohammad A and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Geo-ADAPT-VQE: Quantum Information Metric-Aware Circuit Optimization for Quantum Chemistry Mohammad Aamir Sohail, Toshiaki Koike-Akino}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10325}
    • }
  •  Kogashi, K., Cherian, A., Kuo, M.-Y.J., "MMHOI: Modeling Complex 3D Multi-Human Multi-Object Interactions", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), March 2026, pp. 1512-1521.
    BibTeX TR2026-029 PDF Video Data
    • @inproceedings{Kogashi2026mar,
    • author = {Kogashi, Kaen and Cherian, Anoop and Kuo, Meng-Yu Jennifer},
    • title = {{MMHOI: Modeling Complex 3D Multi-Human Multi-Object Interactions}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {1512--1521},
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-029}
    • }
  •  Lualdi, C., Rapp, J., Kwiat, P., "Quantum-enhanced sensing of time-varying signals at the nanometer scale", SPIE Photonics West, Shahriar, S. M., Eds., DOI: 10.1117/​12.3079847, March 2026, vol. 13920, pp. 139200I.
    BibTeX TR2026-037 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lualdi2026mar,
    • author = {Lualdi, Colin and Rapp, Joshua and Kwiat, Paul},
    • title = {{Quantum-enhanced sensing of time-varying signals at the nanometer scale}},
    • booktitle = {Proc. SPIE Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology IV},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Shahriar, S. M.},
    • volume = 13920,
    • pages = {139200I},
    • month = mar,
    • publisher = {SPIE},
    • doi = {10.1117/12.3079847},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-037}
    • }