publications

Peer-reviewed papers in vision-language-action models, robotic planning, and computer vision.

2026

WACV 2026

From Filters to VLMs: Benchmarking Defogging Methods through Object Detection and Segmentation Performance

Ardalan Aryashad, Parsa Razmara, Amin Mahjoub, Seyedarmin Azizi, Mahdi Salmani, and Arad Firouzkouhi

In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 2026

arXiv Website

Benchmarking defogging methods by downstream task performance on synthetic and real datasets.

2025

IDETC 2025

VLAG: Graph-Based Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Ardalan Aryashad, and Yan Jin

In ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC/CIE), 2025

DOI Website

Modular graph-based planner for long-horizon manipulation with dedicated vision, language, and action modules.