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We study real-time detection of low-rank changes in the covariance structure of high-dimensional streaming data, motivated by robotic swarm monitoring. Building on the spiked covariance model, we propose the Multi-rank Subspace-CUSUM…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Jonghyeok Lee , Yao Xie , Youngser Park , Jason Hindes , Ira Schwartz , Carey Priebe

The unique properties of radar sensors, such as their robustness to adverse weather conditions, make them an important part of the environment perception system of autonomous vehicles. One of the first steps during the processing of radar…

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The emergence of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in future 6G networks comes with a variety of challenges to be solved. One of those is clutter removal, which should be applied to remove the influence of unwanted components,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Marcus Henninger , Silvio Mandelli , Artjom Grudnitsky , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

We propose a hierarchy of multi-level kinetic Monte Carlo methods for sampling high-dimensional, stochastic lattice particle dynamics with complex interactions. The method is based on the efficient coupling of different spatial resolution…

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We address the problem of structured covariance matrix estimation for radar space-time adaptive processing (STAP). A priori knowledge of the interference environment has been exploited in many previous works to enable accurate estimators…

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The mitigation of clutter is an important research branch in Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), one of the emerging technologies of future cellular networks. In this work, we extend our previously introduced method Clutter Removal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Marcus Henninger , Silvio Mandelli , Artjom Grudnitsky , Stephan ten Brink

The Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) approach robustly estimates the location and scatter matrix using the subset of given size with lowest sample covariance determinant. Its main drawback is that it cannot be applied when the dimension…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-13 Kris Boudt , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Steven Vanduffel , Tim Verdonck

This paper deals with adaptive radar detection of a subspace signal competing with two sources of interference. The former is Gaussian with unknown covariance matrix and accounts for the joint presence of clutter plus thermal noise. The…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-20 Antonio De Maio , Danilo Orlando

In this paper we consider physics-informed detection of terrain material change in radar imagery (e.g., shifts in permittivity, roughness or moisture). We propose a lightweight electromagnetic (EM) forward model to simulate bi-temporal…

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Accurate characterization of modern on-chip antennas remains challenging, as current probe-station techniques offer limited angular coverage, rely on bespoke hardware, and require frequent manual alignment. This research introduces RAPTAR…

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In this paper, we propose the Minimum Regularized Covariance Trace (MRCT) estimator, a novel method for robust covariance estimation and functional outlier detection. The MRCT estimator employs a subset-based approach that prioritizes…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-11 Jeremy Oguamalam , Una Radojičić , Peter Filzmoser

This paper presents a method for imaging of moving targets using multi-static SAR by treating the problem as one of spatial reflectivity signal inversion over an overcomplete dictionary of target velocities. Since SAR sensor returns can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Ivana Stojanovic , William C. Karl

This article addresses improvements on the design of the adaptive normalized matched filter (ANMF) for radar detection. It is well-acknowledged that the estimation of the noise-clutter covariance matrix is a fundamental step in adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Abla Kammoun , Romain Couillet , Frederic Pascal , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We propose a Kronecker product model for correlation or covariance matrices in the large dimensional case. The number of parameters of the model increases logarithmically with the dimension of the matrix. We propose a minimum distance (MD)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Christian M. Hafner , Oliver B. Linton , Haihan Tang

Robust PCA is a widely used statistical procedure to recover a underlying low-rank matrix with grossly corrupted observations. This work considers the problem of robust PCA as a nonconvex optimization problem on the manifold of low-rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-04 Teng Zhang , Yi Yang

Robust tracking of a target in a clutter environment is an important and challenging task. In recent years, the nearest neighbor methods and probabilistic data association filters were proposed. However, the performance of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Bahman Moraffah , Christ Richmond , Raha Moraffah , Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

We study the problem of detecting and locating change points in high-dimensional Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models, whose transition matrices exhibit low rank plus sparse structure. We first address the problem of detecting a single change…

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