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The Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) beamforming technique is widely applied in array systems to mitigate interference. However, applying MVDR to large arrays is computationally challenging; its computational complexity…

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Benefiting from its capability to generalize existing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures and provide additional design flexibility via interactions between RIS elements, beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) has attracted…

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The growing use of information hiding in network streaming media for covert communication poses a significant security threat, necessitating the development of robust detection technologies. However, existing steganalysis methods for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pengcheng Zhou , Pianran Guo , Shuhua Chen , Mengqin Zhao , Zhongliang Yang , Linna Zhou

Future multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communications systems will use beamforming as a first-step towards realizing the capacity requirements necessitated by the exponential increase in data demands. The focus of this work is on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Dennis Ogbe , David J. Love , Vasanthan Raghavan

We developed a multifocus optical-resolution photoacoustic microscope (MPAM) with extended depth of field (DoF) by using a tunable acoustic gradient (TAG) lens and a pulse delay method. TAG lens is designed to control the divergence angle…

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This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. Recently, the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming has widely been used because it works…

Invariance to microphone array configuration is a rare attribute in neural beamformers. Filter-and-sum (FS) methods in this class define the target signal with respect to a reference channel. However, this not only complicates formulation…

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Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are an alternative application of metasurfaces as active reconfigurable antennas with advanced analog signal processing and beamforming capabilities, which have been proposed to replace conventional…

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Acoustic-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (AR-PAM) is a promising tool for microvascular imaging. In the focal region, resolution of AR-PAM is determined by the ultrasound transducer and ultimately limited by acoustic diffraction. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Fei Feng , Siqi Liang , Sung-Liang Chen

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is a novel wideband transmission technique for mmWave massive MIMO systems, which exploits the high spatial resolution and multi-path sparsity to mitigate ISI, without relying on channel equalization or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Xingwei Wang , Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Jie Xu

A two-stage multi-channel speech enhancement method is proposed which consists of a novel adaptive beamformer, Hybrid Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR), Isotropic-MVDR (Iso), and a novel multi-channel spectral Principal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Sina Hafezi , Alastair H. Moore , Pierre Guiraud , Patrick A. Naylor , Jacob Donley , Vladimir Tourbabin , Thomas Lunner

Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound promises various medical applications for abdominal, obstetrics, and breast imaging. However, ultrasound matrix arrays have extremely high element counts limiting their field of view (FOV). Current reduced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Mick Gardner , Michael L. Oelze

Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is a novel implementation of photoacoustic imaging (PAI) for visualizing the 3D bio-structure, which is realized by raster scanning of the tissue. However, as three involved critical imaging parameters,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhengyuan Zhang , Haoran Jin , Zesheng Zheng , Wenwen Zhang , Wenhao Lu , Feng Qin , Arunima Sharma , Manojit Pramanik , Yuanjin Zheng

In this paper, we focus on the sum-rate optimization in a multi-user millimeter-wave (mmWave) system with distributed intelligent reflecting surfaces (D-IRSs), where a base station (BS) communicates with users via multiple IRSs. The BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Wei Sun , Jiao Wu , Guan Gui , Ning Wei , Zhongpei Zhang

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

A novel multiuser communication system with movable antennas (MAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang

In this correspondence, we propose a movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user hybrid beamforming scheme with a sub-connected structure, where multiple movable sub-arrays can independently change their positions within different local regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

In recent years, the minimum variance (MV) beamforming has been widely studied due to its high resolution and contrast in B-mode Ultrasound imaging (USI). However, the performance of the MV beamformer is degraded at the presence of noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Mehdi Haji Heidari , Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Rayyan Manwar , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki

Ultrasonic imaging is being used to obtain information about the acoustic properties of a medium by emitting waves into it and recording their interaction using ultrasonic transducer arrays. The Delay-And-Sum (DAS) algorithm forms images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) constitute a promising solution for extremely large antenna arrays, requiring lower power consumption and reduced hardware cost as compared to conventional phased arrays. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos