Publications

Preprints

Time Reversal Symmetry for Efficient Robotic Manipulations in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Y. Jiang, J. Hu, P. Weng, Y. Ban
Temporal Propagation of Asymmetric Feature Pyramid for Surgical Scene Segmentation
C. Yuan, Y. Ban
Tracking-Aware Deformation Field Estimation for Non-rigid 3D Reconstruction in Robotic Surgeries
Z. Wang, H. Fang, Y. Xu, Y. Ban
Diffusion Stabilizer Policy for Automated Surgical Robot Manipulations
C. Ho, J. Hu, H. Wang, Q. Dou, Y. Ban
Is Segment Anything Model 2 All You Need for Surgery Video Segmentation? A Systematic Evaluation
C. Yuan, J. Jiang, K. Yang, L. Wu, R. Wang, Z. Meng, H. Ping, Z. Xu, Y. Zhou, Y. Ban
Enhancing Class Fairness in Classification with A Two-Player Game Approach
Y. Jiang, P. Weng, Y. Ban

2025

Surgical Scene Segmentation by Transformer with Asymmetric Feature Enhancement
C. Yuan, Y. Ban
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2025
Hypergraph-Transformer (HGT) for Interactive Event Prediction in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery
L. Yin, Y. Ban, J. Eckhoff, O. Meireles, D. Rus, G. Rosman
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

2024

INViT: A Generalizable Routing Problem Solver with Invariant Nested View Transformer
H. Fang, Z. Song, P. Weng, Y. Ban
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
Drive anywhere: Generalizable end-to-end autonomous driving with multi-modal foundation models
T. H. Wang, A. Maalouf, W. Xiao, Y. Ban, A. Amini, G. Rosman, S. Karaman, D. Rus
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
State-novelty guided action persistence in deep reinforcement learning
J. Hu, P. Weng, Y. Ban
Machine Learning, 2024

2023

SAGES consensus recommendations on surgical video data use, structure, and exploration (for research in artificial intelligence, clinical quality improvement, and surgical…)
J. A. Eckhoff, G. Rosman, M. S. Altieri, S. Speidel, D. Stoyanov, M. Anvari, ...
Surgical Endoscopy 37 (11), 8690-8707, 2023
Concept graph neural networks for surgical video understanding
Y. Ban, J. A. Eckhoff, T. M. Ward, D. A. Hashimoto, O. R. Meireles, D. Rus, ...
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 43 (1), 264-274, 2023
On the forward invariance of neural odes
W. Xiao, T. H. Wang, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, Y. Ban, C. Gan, D. Rus
International Conference on Machine Learning, 38100-38124, 2023
Infrastructure-based end-to-end learning and prevention of driver failure
N. Buckman, S. Sreeram, M. Lechner, Y. Ban, R. Hasani, S. Karaman, D. Rus
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3576-3583, 2023
TEsoNet: knowledge transfer in surgical phase recognition from laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy to the laparoscopic part of Ivor–Lewis esophagectomy
J. A. Eckhoff*, Y. Ban*, G. Rosman, D. T. Müller, D. A. Hashimoto, E. Witkowski, ...
Surgical Endoscopy, 1-14, 2023

Before 2023

TransCenter: Transformers with Dense Representations for Multiple-Object Tracking
Y. Xu*, Y. Ban*, G. Delorme, C. Gan, D. Rus, X. Alameda-Pineda
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, 1-16, 2022
SUPR-GAN: SUrgical PRediction GAN for Event Anticipation in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery
Y. Ban, G. Rosman, J. Eckhoff, T. Ward, D. Hashimoto, T. Kondo, H. Iwaki, O. Meireles, D. Rus
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) & ICRA, 2022
Artificial Intelligence Prediction of Cholecystectomy Operative Course from Automated Identification of Gallbladder Inflammation
T. M. Ward, D. A. Hashimoto, Y. Ban, G. Rosman, O. Meireles
Surgical Endoscopy, 2022
Automated Operative Phase Identification in Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy
T. M. Ward, D. A. Hashimoto, Y. Ban, D. W. Rattner, H. Inoue, K. D. Lillemoe, D. Rus, G. Rosman, O. Meireles
Surgical Endoscopy, 2021
Computer Vision in Surgery
T. M. Ward, P. Mascagni, Y. Ban, G. Rosman, N. Padoy, O. Meireles, D. A. Hashimoto
Elsevier Surgery, 2021
Variational Bayesian Inference for Audio-Visual Tracking of Multiple Speakers
Y. Ban, X. Alameda-Pineda, L. Girin, R. Horaud
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021
Tracking Multiple Audio Sources with the Von Mises Distribution and Variational EM
Y. Ban, X. Alameda-Pineda, C. Evers, R. Horaud
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 2019
Online localization and tracking of multiple moving speakers in reverberant environments
X. Li*, Y. Ban*, L. Girin, X. Alameda-Pineda, R. Horaud
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 13 (1), 88-103, 2019
Tracking a varying number of people with a visually-controlled robotic head
Y. Ban, X. Alameda-Pineda, F. Badeig, S. Ba, R. Horaud
2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017