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This paper tackles the challenge of one-bit off-grid direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in a single snapshot scenario based on a learning-based Bayesian approach. Firstly, we formulate the off-grid DOA estimation model, utilizing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yunqiao Hu , Shunqiao Sun , Yimin D. Zhang

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a common sensing problem in radar, sonar, audio, and wireless communication systems. It has gained renewed importance with the advent of the integrated sensing and communication paradigm. To fully…

Sensor selection is a useful method to help reduce data throughput, as well as computational, power, and hardware requirements, while still maintaining acceptable performance. Although minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao bound has been adopted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Costas A. Kokke , Mario Coutiño , Laura Anitori , Richard Heusdens , Geert Leus

This paper investigates parametric direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in a particular context: i) each sensor is characterized by an unknown complex gain and ii) the array consists of a collection of subarrays which are substantially…

We focus on developing an effective Direction Of Arrival (DOA) estimation method for wideband sources based on the gridless sparse concept. Previous coherent methods have been designed by dividing wideband frequencies into a few subbands…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Milad Javadzadeh Jirhandeh , Mohammad Hossein Kahae

This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process, and makes a decision as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

The expectation-maximization (EM) and space-alternating generalized EM (SAGE) algorithms have been applied to direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in known noise. In this work, the two algorithms are proposed for DOA estimation in unknown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Ming-yan Gong , Bin Lyu

We consider the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in unknown partially correlated noise environments where the noise covariance matrix is sparse. A sparse noise covariance matrix is a common model for a sparse array of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Magnus Jansson , Arash Owrang , Ali Koochakzadeh , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh

In this paper, we study the problem of direction of arrival estimation and model order selection for systems employing subarray sampling. Thereby, we focus on scenarios, where the number of active sources is not smaller than the number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Andreas Barthelme , Wolfgang Utschick

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is mostly performed using specialized arrays that have carefully designed receiver spacing and layouts to match the operating frequency range. In contrast, radio interferometric arrays are designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sarod Yatawatta

Hard-threshold estimators are popular in signal processing applications. We provide a detailed study of using hard-threshold estimators for estimating an unknown deterministic signal when additive white Gaussian noise corrupts observations.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-24 Baris I. Erkmen , Vivek K. Goyal

We present a MUSIC-based Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation strategy using small antenna arrays, via employing deep learning for reconstructing the signals of a virtual large antenna array. Not only does the proposed strategy deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Aya Mostafa Ahmed , Udaya Sampath K. P. Miriya Thanthrige , Aly El Gamal , Aydin Sezgin

This paper proposes design techniques for partially-calibrated sparse linear subarrays and algorithms to perform direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. First, we introduce array architectures that incorporate two distinct array categories,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 W. Leite , R. C. de Lamare , Y. Zakharov , W. Liu , M. Haardt

We propose a joint estimation method for the Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and the Noise Covariance Matrix (NCM) tailored for beamforming applications. Building upon an existing NCM framework, our approach simplifies the estimation procedure…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Vitor Gelsleichter Probst Curtarelli , Stephan Paul , Anderson Wedderhoff Spengler

A simple scheme for joint direction of arrival (DOA) and array manifold estimation for a MIMO array system is proposed, where only two transmit antennas are calibrated initially. It first obtains a set of initial DOA results by employing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Wei Zhang , Wei Liu , Siliang Wu , Ju Wang

In practical scenarios, processes such as sensor design, manufacturing, and installation will introduce certain errors. Furthermore, mutual interference occurs when the sensors receive signals. These defects in array systems are referred to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Bo Zhou , Kaijie Xu , Yinghui Quan , Mengdao Xing

We address the challenging problem of estimating the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of multiple off-grid signals using a single snapshot of one-bit quantized measurements. Conventional DOA estimation methods face difficulties in tackling this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Yunqiao Hu , Shunqiao Sun , Yimin D. Zhang

This letter proposes a multiple parametric dictionary learning algorithm for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in presence of array gain-phase error and mutual coupling. It jointly solves both the DOA estimation and array imperfection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-25 H. Ghanbari , H. Zayyani , E. Yazdian

Detecting weak signals buried in complex, non-Gaussian noise is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering, with applications ranging from radar systems and communications to industrial monitoring and gravitational wave detection.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 J. Zschetzsche , M. Weimar , O. Lang , S. Schuster , A. Haberl , S. Schertler , B. Lehner , J. Reisinger , M. Huemer , S. Rotter

The direction-of-arrival (DOA) of sound sources is an essential acoustic parameter used, e.g., for multi-channel speech enhancement or source tracking. Complex acoustic scenarios consisting of sources-of-interest, interfering sources,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Wolfgang Mack , Julian Wechsler , Emanuël A. P. Habets