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Linear-array based photoacoustic images are reconstructed using the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming method. Although the DAS beamformer is well suited for PA image formation, reconstructed images are often afflicted by noises,…
Horizontal line arrays are often employed in underwater environments to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a weak signal. Conventional beamforming (CB) is robust but has wide beamwidths and high-level sidelobes. High-resolution…
Sparse arrays are popular for performance optimization while keeping the hardware and computational costs down. In this paper, we consider sparse arrays design method for wideband source operating in a wideband jamming environment.…
Sparse array arrangement has been widely used in vector-sensor arrays because of increased degree-of-freedoms for identifying more sources than sensors. For large-size sparse vector-sensor arrays, one-bit measurements can further reduce the…
In this paper we propose a new binaural beamforming technique which can be seen as a relaxation of the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) framework. The proposed method can achieve simultaneous noise reduction and exact binaural…
Channel estimation and beamforming play critical roles in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, these two modules have been treated as two stand-alone components, which makes it…
This paper proposes a method for estimating a convolutional beamformer that can perform denoising and dereverberation simultaneously in an optimal way. The application of dereverberation based on a weighted prediction error (WPE) method…
We address the problem of search-free DOA estimation from a single noisy snapshot for sensor arrays of arbitrary geometry, by extending a method of gridless super-resolution beamforming to arbitrary arrays with noisy measurements. The…
In-air acoustic imaging systems demand beamforming techniques that offer a high dynamic range and spatial resolution while also remaining robust. Conventional Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamforming fails to meet these quality demands due to high…
Directions of arrival (DOA) estimation or localization of sources is an important problem in many applications for which numerous algorithms have been proposed. Most localization methods use block-level processing that combines multiple…
Ultrasound (US) imaging is based on the time-reversal principle, in which individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually…
In this paper, the partial relaxation approach is introduced and applied to DOA estimation using spectral search. Unlike existing methods like Capon or MUSIC which can be considered as single source approximations of multi-source estimation…
Beamforming in ultrasound imaging has significant impact on the quality of the final image, controlling its resolution and contrast. Despite its low spatial resolution and contrast, delay-and-sum is still extensively used nowadays in…
In this paper, a new multi-source wideband direction of arrival (MSW-DOA) estimation method is proposed for the signal with non-uniform distribution using the sub-array of uniform linear array. Different from conventional methods, based on…
We propose a novel multivariate signal denoising method that performs long-range correlation analysis of multiple modes in input data by considering inherent inter-channel dependencies of the data. That is achieved through a novel and…
Sparsity in the eigenvectors of signal covariance matrices is exploited in this paper for compression and denoising. Dimensionality reduction (DR) and quantization modules present in many practical compression schemes such as transform…
A new spatial IIR beamformer based direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation method is proposed in this paper. We propose a retransmission based spatial feedback method for an array of transmit and receive antennas that improves the performance…
Beamforming is a signal processing technique. It has been studied in many areas such as radar, sonar, seismology and wireless communications, to name but a few. It can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as detecting the presence of a…
Beamformers often trade off white noise gain against the ability to suppress interferers. With distributed microphone arrays, this trade-off becomes crucial as different arrays capture vastly different magnitude and phase differences for…
The importance of regularization has been well established in image reconstruction -- which is the computational inversion of imaging forward model -- with applications including deconvolution for microscopy, tomographic reconstruction,…