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The aim of this paper is to analyze the array synthesis for 5 G massive MIMO systems in the line-of-sight working condition. The main result of the numerical investigation performed is that non-uniform arrays are the natural choice in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Daniele Pinchera , Marco Donald Migliore , Fulvio Schettino , Gaetano Panariello

Terahertz (THz) communications with multi-GHz bandwidth are envisioned as a key technology for 6G systems. Ultra-massive (UM) MIMO with hybrid beamforming architectures are widely investigated to provide a high array gain to overcome the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Longfei Yan , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

In the problem of spotlight mode airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation, it is well-known that data collected over a wide azimuthal angle violate the isotropic scattering property typically assumed. Many techniques have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

It is not widely appreciated that many subtleties are involved in the accurate measurement of intensity-correlated photons; even for the original experiments of Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT). Using a monolithic 4x4 array of single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 D. L. Boiko , N. J. Gunther , N. Brauer , M. Sergio , C. Niclass , G. B. Beretta , E. Charbon

Our aim is to assess the benefits and limitations of using the redundant visibility information in regular phased array systems for improving the calibration. Regular arrays offer the possibility to use redundant visibility information to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Parisa Noorishad , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Arnold van Ardenne , Thijs van der Hulst

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Image stitching aims at stitching the images taken from different viewpoints into an image with a wider field of view. Existing methods warp the target image to the reference image using the estimated warp function, and a homography is one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hyeokjun Kweon , Hyeonseong Kim , Yoonsu Kang , Youngho Yoon , Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

We propose a new technique to obtain super-resolution images with radio interferometer using sparse modeling. In standard radio interferometry, sampling of ($u$, $v$) is quite often incomplete and thus obtaining an image from observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Mareki Honma , Kazunori Akiyama , Makoto Uemura , Shiro Ikeda

A lunar orbit interferometer array suffers from a number of systematics. Beyond systematics induced by the imaging algorithm itself and thermal noise considered in Paper I, phase errors due to instrumental inconsistency between receivers,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Meng Zhou , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Li Zhou , Xuelei Chen

The lowest frequency band (70 - 450 MHz) of the Square Kilometre Array will consist of sparse aperture arrays grouped into geographically-localised patches, or stations. Signals from thousands of antennas in each station will be beamformed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Aziz Jiwani , Tim Colegate , Nima Razavi-Ghods , Peter J Hall , Shantanu Padhi , Jan Geralt bij de Vaate

Several Scientific and engineering applications require merging of sampled images for complex perception development. In most cases, for such requirements, images are merged at intensity level. Even though it gives fairly good perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-01 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Richa Sharma

For astronomical instruments, accurate knowledge of the optical pointing and coupling are essential to characterize the alignment and performance of (sub-)systems prior to integration and deployment. Ideally, this requires the phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-11 S. J. C. Yates , K. K. Davis , W. Jellema , J. J. A. Baselmans , A. M. Baryshev

Snapshot spectral imaging is rapidly gaining interest for remote sensing applications. Acquiring spatial and spectral data within one image promotes fast measurement times, and reduces the need for stabilized scanning imaging systems. Many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Rebecca French , Sylvain Gigan , Otto L. Muskens

Capturing the shape and spatially-varying appearance (SVBRDF) of an object from images is a challenging task that has applications in both computer vision and graphics. Traditional optimization-based approaches often need a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mark Boss , Varun Jampani , Kihwan Kim , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Jan Kautz

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low frequency radio telescope operating on the Square Kilometre Array site in Western Australia. MWA is generating tens of terabytes of data daily. The size of the required data storage has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-09 Vyacheslav V. Kitaeff

Millimeter-wave massive MIMO with lens antenna array can considerably reduce the number of required radio-frequency (RF) chains by beam selection. However, beam selection requires the base station to acquire the accurate information of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Xinyu Gao , Linglong Dai , Shuangfeng Han , Chih-Lin I , Xiaodong Wang

In this work, we propose a general framework for wireless imaging in distributed MIMO wideband communication systems, considering multi-view non-isotropic targets and near-field propagation effects. For indoor scenarios where the objective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Shuangyang Li , Yi Song , Amir Rezaei , Giuseppe Caire

Since the beam squint and near-field effects both inherently exist in upper-6 GHz (U6G) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, wideband near-field channel estimation faces severe challenges, such as higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhizheng Lu , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

With the popularity of drone technologies, aerial photography has become prevalent in many daily scenarios such as environment monitoring, structure inspection, law enforcement etc. A central challenge in this domain is the efficient…

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