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The maximum likelihood (ML) and maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation techniques are widely used to address the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problems, an important topic in sensor array processing. Conventionally the ML estimators…
We investigate the performance of ptychography with noisy data by analyzing the Cram\'{e}r Rao Lower Bound. The lower bound of ptychography is derived and numerically computed for both plane wave and structured illumination. The influence…
A data-analysis strategy based on the maximum-likelihood method (MLM) is presented for the detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries with a network of laser-interferometric detectors having arbitrary orientations…
Point of colsest Approche algorithm (PoCA) based on the formalism of muon radiogra- phy using Multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) as information source is previously used to obtain the reconstruction image of high Z material. The low accuracy…
This work considers the problem of locating a single source from noisy range measurements to a set of nodes in a wireless sensor network. We propose two new techniques that we designate as Source Localization with Nuclear Norm (SLNN) and…
We consider the problem of localization of Poisson source by the observations of inhomogeneous Poisson processes. We suppose that there are $k$ detectors on the plane and each detector provides the observations of Poisson processes whose…
Maximum Likelihood (ML) algorithms, for the joint estimation of synchronization impairments and channel in Multiple Input Multiple Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system, are investigated in this work. A system…
Image coaddition is one of the most basic operations that astronomers perform. In Paper~I, we presented the optimal ways to coadd images in order to detect faint sources and to perfrom flux measurements under the assumption that the noise…
Orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization (ONMF) has become a standard approach for clustering. As far as we know, most works on ONMF rely on the Frobenius norm to assess the quality of the approximation. This paper presents a new model…
In this paper, we consider a novel and robust maximum likelihood approach to localizing radiation sources with unknown statistics of the source signal strength. The result utilizes the smallest number of sensors required theoretically to…
We present a method of reliably extracting the flux of individual sources from sky maps in the presence of noise and a source population in which number counts are a steeply falling function of flux. The method is an extension of a standard…
Maximum likelihood (ML) detection is an optimal signal detection scheme, which is often difficult to implement due to its high computational complexity, especially in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenario. In a system with $N_t$…
Multi-view subspace learning (MSL) aims to find a low-dimensional subspace of the data obtained from multiple views. Different from single view case, MSL should take both common and specific knowledge among different views into…
Multi-source localization based on received signal strength (RSS) has drawn great interest in wireless sensor networks. However, the shadow fading term caused by obstacles cannot be separated from the received signal, which leads to severe…
The study of machine learning (ML) techniques for the autonomous classification of astrophysical sources is of great interest, and we explore its applications in the context of a multifrequency data-frame. We test the use of supervised ML…
We present a new algorithm designed to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of point and extended source detections in direct imaging data. The novel part of our method is that it finds the linear combination of the science images that…
This paper discusses phase retrieval algorithms for maximum likelihood (ML) estimation from measurements following independent Poisson distributions in very low-count regimes, e.g., 0.25 photon per pixel. To maximize the log-likelihood of…
It is considered the problem of localization on the plane of two radioactive sources by K detectors. Each detector records a realization of inhomogeneous Poisson process and the intensity function of this process is a sum of a signal…
The detection and flux estimation of point sources in cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps is a very important task in order to clean the maps and also to obtain relevant astrophysical information. In this paper we propose a maximum a…
This paper presents a fast computational method, the Expectation Maximization algorithm, for Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation in diffusion tensor imaging under the Rice noise model. We further extend the ML framework to the maximum a…