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Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is a novel wideband communication technique, which exploits the high spatial resolution and multi-path sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingwei Wang , Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng

Traditional beamforming of medical ultrasound images relies on sampling rates significantly higher than the actual Nyquist rate of the received signals. This results in large amounts of data to store and process, imposing hardware and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Alon Mamistvalov , Ariel Amar , Naama Kessler , Yonina C. Eldar

To improve the spatial resolution of power Doppler (PD) imaging, we explored null subtraction imaging (NSI) as an alternative beamforming technique to delay-and-sum (DAS). NSI is a nonlinear beamforming approach that uses three different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Zhengchang Kou , Matthew Lowerison , Qi You , Yike Wang , Pengfei Song , Michael L. Oelze

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) has been recently proposed to enable manipulable channel delay spread for efficient single- or multi-carrier communications. In particular, with perfect delay alignment, inter-symbol interference (ISI) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

This paper considers distributed linear beamforming in downlink multicell multiuser orthogonal frequency-division multiple access networks. A fast convergent solution maximizing the weighted sum- rate with per base station (BS) transmiting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Mirza Golam Kibria , Hidekazu Murata , Jun Zheng

Although mask-based beamforming is a powerful speech enhancement approach, it often requires manual parameter tuning to handle moving speakers. Recently, this approach was augmented with an attention-based spatial covariance matrix…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Marvin Tammen , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki , Simon Doclo

In this paper, a binaural beamforming algorithm for hearing aid applications is introduced.The beamforming algorithm is designed to be robust to some error in the estimate of the target speaker direction. The algorithm has two main…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Hala As'ad , Martin Bouchard , Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi

Contrast-Enhanced Ultra-Sound (CEUS) has become a viable method for non-invasive, dynamic visualization in medical diagnostics, yet Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has enabled a revolutionary breakthrough by offering ten times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Christopher Hahne , Raphael Sznitman

Applying a sparse constraint on the beam pattern has been suggested to suppress the sidelobe level of a minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer. In this letter, we introduce a weighted sparse constraint in the beamformer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-25 Yipeng Liu , Qun Wan , Xiaoli Chu

This paper studies the beamforming optimization challenge in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where the RIS phase configuration is discrete. Conventional optimization methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Rujing Xiong , Xuihui Dong , Tiebin Mi , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Renwang Li , Meixia Tao

In this work, we investigate the optimal beamformer design for the downlink of Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), mainly focusing on a two-user scenario. We derive novel closed-form expressions for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Georgios Konstantopoulos , Yves Louet

This paper considers downlink multi-group multicasting via beamforming facilitated by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We develop a fast and scalable algorithm for the joint base station (BS) and RIS beamforming optimization to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mohammad Ebrahimi , Min Dong , Mitra Hekmat

Sonar imaging is the primary modality for underwater target detection, yet small targets remain difficult to detect due to insufficient pixel coverage, low acoustic contrast, and scale ambiguity across imaging ranges. CNN-based detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hui Lin , Jiayi Li , Jing Wang , Shenghui Rong

Speech separation algorithms are often used to separate the target speech from other interfering sources. However, purely neural network based speech separation systems often cause nonlinear distortion that is harmful for automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Zhuohuang Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Dong Yu

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is a promising technology to achieve ISI-free wideband communication, by leveraging delay compensation and path-based beamforming, rather than the conventional channel equalization or multi-carrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Medical Imaging (MI) tasks, such as accelerated parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), often involve reconstructing an image from noisy or incomplete measurements. This amounts to solving ill-posed inverse problems, where a satisfactory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 George Yiasemis , Nikita Moriakov , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide access to spectra with bandwidths and in abundance. However, the high susceptibility of mmWave to blockage imposes crucial challenges, especially to low-latency services. In this paper, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Zhipeng Lin , Wei Ni