Building Audio-Visual Digital Twins with Smartphones

Digital twins today are almost entirely visual, overlooking acoustics-a core component of spatial realism and interaction. We introduce AV-Twin, the first practical system that constructs editable audio-visual digital twins using only commodity smartphones. AV-Twin combines mobile RIR capture and a visual-assisted acoustic field model to efficiently reconstruct room acoustics. It further recovers per-surface material properties through differentiable acoustic rendering, enabling users to modify materials, geometry, and layout while automatically updating both audio and visuals. Together, these capabilities establish a practical path toward fully modifiable audio-visual digital twins for real-world environments.

Battery-Care Resource Allocation and Task Offloading in Multi-Agent Post-Disaster MEC Environment

Being an up-and-coming application scenario of mobile edge computing (MEC), the post-disaster rescue suffers multitudinous computing-intensive tasks but unstably guaranteed network connectivity. In rescue environments, quality of service (QoS), such as task execution delay, energy consumption and battery state of health (SoH), is of significant meaning. This paper studies a multi-user post-disaster MEC environment with unstable 5G communication, where device-to-device (D2D) link communication and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) are adopted to balance each user's requirement for task delay and energy consumption. A battery degradation evaluation approach to prolong battery lifetime is also presented. The distributed optimization problem is formulated into a mixed cooperative-competitive (MCC) multi-agent Markov decision process (MAMDP) and is tackled with recurrent multi-agent Proximal Policy Optimization (rMAPPO). Extensive simulations and comprehensive comparisons with other representative algorithms clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed rMAPPO-based offloading scheme.