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We investigate localization of a source based on angle of arrival (AoA) measurements made at a geographically dispersed network of cooperating receivers. The goal is to efficiently compute accurate estimates despite outliers in the AoA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Bharath Ananthasubramaniam , Upamanyu Madhow

In this investigation, we propose several algorithms to recover the location and intensity of a radiation source located in a simulated 250 m x 180 m block in an urban center based on synthetic measurements. Radioactive decay and detection…

Applications · Statistics 2016-07-05 Razvan Stefanescu , Kathleen Schmidt , Jason Hite , Ralph Smith , John Mattingly

We consider the problem of self-localization by a resource-constrained mobile node given perturbed anchor position information and distance estimates from the anchor nodes. We consider normally-distributed noise in anchor position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Vikram Kumar , Reza Arablouei , Raja Jurdak , Branislav Kusy , Neil W. Bergmann

Source localization and spectral estimation are among the most fundamental problems in statistical and array signal processing. Methods which rely on the orthogonality of the signal and noise subspaces, such as Pisarenko's method, MUSIC,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Matthew W. Morency , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Geert Leus

When nodes in a mobile network use relative noisy measurements with respect to their neighbors to estimate their positions, the overall connectivity and geometry of the measurement network has a critical influence on the achievable…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Jerome Le Ny , Simon Chauvière

We propose a localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks, which is simple in design, does not involve significant overhead and yet provides acceptable position estimates of sensor nodes. The algorithm uses settled nodes as beacon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz , Saleem Akhtar

Combining multiple complementary techniques together has long been regarded as a way to improve performance. In visual localization, multi-sensor fusion, multi-process fusion of a single sensing modality, and even combinations of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Stephen Hausler , Michael Milford

In this paper, we consider a novel and robust maximum likelihood approach to localizing radiation sources with unknown statistics of the source signal strength. The result utilizes the smallest number of sensors required theoretically to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Henry E. Baidoo-Williams

We present a hybrid cross-device localization pipeline developed for the CroCoDL 2025 Challenge. Our approach integrates a shared retrieval encoder and two complementary localization branches: a classical geometric branch using feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Meixia Lin , Mingkai Liu , Shuxue Peng , Dikai Fan , Shengyu Gu , Xianliang Huang , Haoyang Ye , Xiao Liu

We present DCOOL-NET, a scalable distributed in-network algorithm for sensor network localization based on noisy range measurements. DCOOL-NET operates by parallel, collaborative message passing between single-hop neighbor sensors, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Claudia Soares , Joao Xavier , Joao Gomes

To address the need for high-precision localization of climbing robots in complex high-altitude environments, this paper proposes a multi-sensor fusion system that overcomes the limitations of single-sensor approaches. Firstly, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shuning Zhang , Zhanchen Zhu , Xiangyu Chen , Yunheng Wang , Xu Jiang , Peibo Duan , Renjing Xu

Source localization plays a key role in many applications including radar, wireless and underwater communications. Among various localization methods, the most popular ones are Time-Of-Arrival (TOA), Time-Difference-Of-Arrival (TDOA), and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Nitesh Sahu , Linlong Wu , Prabhu Babu , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Björn Ottersten

Localizing near-field sources considering practical arrays is important in wireless communications. Array-based apertures exhibit mutual coupling between the array elements, which can significantly degrade the performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Zohreh Ebadi , Amir Masoud Molaei , Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi , Simon Cotton , Anvar Tukmanov , Okan Yurduseven

The paper discusses the increasing use of hybridized sensor information for GNSS-based localization and navigation, including the use of 3D map-aided GNSS positioning and terrestrial systems based on different geometric measurement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Paul Schwarzbach , Albrecht Michler , Oliver Michler

Multi-focus noisy image fusion represents an important task in the field of image fusion which generates a single, clear and focused image from all source images. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-focus noisy image fusion method based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tariq Durrani

In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

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

Recent advances in mapping techniques have enabled the creation of highly accurate dense 3D maps during robotic missions, such as point clouds, meshes, or NeRF-based representations. These developments present new opportunities for reusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lintong Zhang , Yifu Tao , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang , Maurice Fallon

In this paper, we propose an efficient range free localization scheme for large scale three dimensional wireless sensor networks. Our system environment consists of two type of sensors, randomly deployed static sensors and global…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Rajesh Kumar , Sushil Kumar , Diksha Shukla , Ram Shringar Raw

In this work we study the statistical model of source localization based on Range Difference measurements. We investigate the case of planar localization of a source using a minimal configuration of three non aligned receivers. Our analysis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Marco Compagnoni , Roberto Notari , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

We consider a network of agents that locate themselves in an environment through sensor measurements and aim to transmit a message signal to a base station via collaborative beamforming. The agents' sensor measurements result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Erfaun Noorani , Yagiz Savas , Alec Koppel , John Baras , Ufuk Topcu , Brian M. Sadler