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Sampling is classically performed by recording the amplitude of an input signal at given time instants; however, sampling and reconstructing a signal using multiple devices in parallel becomes a more difficult problem to solve when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Karen Adam , Adam Scholefield , Martin Vetterli

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously communicates with one single-antenna user and senses the location parameter of a target which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

We present the concept of an acoustic rake receiver---a microphone beamformer that uses echoes to improve the noise and interference suppression. The rake idea is well-known in wireless communications; it involves constructively combining…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Ivan Dokmanić , Robin Scheibler , Martin Vetterli

We propose and test stable algorithms for the reconstruction of the internal conductivity of a biological object using acousto-electric measurements. Namely, the conventional impedance tomography scheme is supplemented by scanning the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Peter Kuchment , Leonid Kunyansky

Precise 6-DoF simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) from onboard sensors is critical for wearable devices capturing egocentric data, which exhibits specific challenges, such as a wider diversity of motions and viewpoints, prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Anusha Krishnan , Shaohui Liu , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Oscar Gentilhomme , David Caruso , Maurizio Monge , Richard Newcombe , Jakob Engel , Marc Pollefeys

We show that one can reconstruct the shape of a room with planar walls from the first-order echoes received by four non-planar microphones placed on a drone with generic position and orientation. Both the cases where the source is located…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

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

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

In this paper we address the problems of modeling the acoustic space generated by a full-spectrum sound source and of using the learned model for the localization and separation of multiple sources that simultaneously emit sparse-spectrum…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Antoine Deleforge , Florence Forbes , Radu Horaud

The reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe is an important topic in cosmology, particularly in the context of sharpening the measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak. Nonlinear reconstruction algorithms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Jack Birkin , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun , Yanlong Shi

A real-time communication system with two encoders communicating with a single receiver over separate noisy channels is considered. The two encoders make distinct partial observations of a Markov source. Each encoder must encode its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-27 Ashutosh Nayyar , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Particle beam microscopy (PBM) performs nanoscale imaging by pixelwise capture of scalar values representing noisy measurements of the response from secondary electrons (SEs) integrated over a dwell time. Extended to metrology, goals…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-08-15 Akshay Agarwal , Minxu Peng , Vivek K. Goyal

Measuring 3D geometric structures of indoor scenes requires dedicated depth sensors, which are not always available. Echo-based depth estimation has recently been studied as a promising alternative solution. All previous studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Junpei Honma , Akisato Kimura , Go Irie

This paper deals with the problem of reconstructing the path of a vehicle in an unknown environment consisting of planar structures using sound. Many systems in the literature do this by using a loudspeaker and microphones mounted on a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Hongming Shan , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang , Yang Yang

Study of a simple single-trace transmission example shows how an extended source formulation of full-waveform inversion can produce an optimization problem without spurious local minima ("cycle skipping"), hence efficiently solvable via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 William W. Symes , Huiyi Chen , Susan E. Minkoff

We present an algorithm that fully reverses the shoebox image source method (ISM), a popular and widely used room impulse response (RIR) simulator for cuboid rooms introduced by Allen and Berkley in 1979. More precisely, given a discrete…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tom Sprunck , Antoine Deleforge , Yannick Privat , Cédric Foy

Knowing the geometry of a space is desirable for many applications, e.g. sound source localization, sound field reproduction or auralization. In circumstances where only acoustic signals can be obtained, estimating the geometry of a room is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Linh Nguyen , Jaime Valls Miro , Xiaojun Qiu

This letter investigates the robust beamforming design for a near-field secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with multiple communication users (CUs) and targets, as well as multiple eavesdroppers. Taking into account…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziqiang CHen , Feng Wang , Guojun Han , Xin Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper considers the problem of sampling and reconstruction of a continuous-time sparse signal without assuming the knowledge of the sampling instants or the sampling rate. This topic has its roots in the problem of recovering multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ayush Bhandari , Aurelien Bourquard , Ramesh Raskar

Modern wearable devices are embedded with a range of noninvasive biomarker sensors that hold promise for improving detection and treatment of disease. One such sensor is the single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) which measures electrical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Jeffrey Chan , Andrew C. Miller , Emily B. Fox