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Delay-and-sum (DAS) algorithms are widely used for beamforming in linear array photoacoustic imaging systems and are characterized by fast execution. However, these algorithms suffer from various drawbacks like low resolution, low contrast,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Souradip Paul , Subhamoy Mandal , Mayanglambam Suheshkumar Singh

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving high spectrum efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost reflecting elements with each reflecting the incident signal with a proper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Conventional ultrasound (US) imaging employs the delay and sum (DAS) receive beamforming with dynamic receive focus for image reconstruction due to its simplicity and robustness. However, the DAS beamforming follows a geometrical method of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 M. S. Asif , Gayathri Malamal , A. N. Madhavanunni , Vikram Melapudi , V Rahul , Abhijit Patil , Rajesh Langoju , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

In astronomy and microscopy, distortions in the wavefront affect the dynamic range of a high contrast imaging system. These aberrations are either imposed by a turbulent medium such as the atmosphere, by static or thermal aberrations in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Benjamin Pope , Nick Cvetojevic , Anthony Cheetham , Frantz Martinache , Barnaby Norris , Peter Tuthill

Passive radar has key advantages over its active counterpart in terms of cost and stealth. In this paper, we address passive radar imaging problem by interferometric inversion using a spectral estimation method with a priori information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

This paper considers an intelligent transmitting surface (ITS) integrated into a base station and develops a low-overhead maximum a posteriori (MAP) probability channel tracking method for the dominant line-of-sight link between the ITS and…

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Beamforming design has been widely investigated for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with full-duplex (FD) sensing and half-duplex (HD) communication. To achieve higher spectral efficiency, in this paper, we extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Yonina C. Eldar , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we consider IRS-assisted transmissions from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a receiver with uncertain channel information. By adjusting the magnitude of reflecting coefficients, the IRS can sustain its operations by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Yongchang Deng , Yuze Zou , Shimin Gong , Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, a general ISAC system where the base station (BS) communicates with multiple users and performs target detection is considered. Then, a sum communication rate maximization problem is formulated, subjected to the constraints…

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Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

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Delay alignment modulation (DAM) has been recently proposed to enable inter-symbol interference (ISI)-free single-carrier (SC) communication without relying on sophisticated channel equalization. The key idea of DAM is to pre-introduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

This paper explores an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network empowered by multiple active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). A base station (BS) furnishes downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Hyeonho Noh , Hyeonsu Lyu , Hyun Jong Yang

The most common technique for generating B-mode ultrasound (US) images is delay and sum (DAS) beamforming, where the signals received at the transducer array are sampled before an appropriate delay is applied. This necessitates sampling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Alon Mamistvalov , Yonina C. Eldar

In Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), the most prevalent beamforming algorithm is delay-and-sum (DAS) due to its simple implementation. However, it results in a low quality image affected by the high level of sidelobes. Coherence factor (CF) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-10 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Mohammad Mehrmohammadi , Bahador Makkiabadi

In this paper, we propose a full-duplex integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by a movable antenna (MA). By leveraging the characteristic of MA that can increase the spatial diversity gain, the performance of the system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Zhendong Li , Jianle Ba , Zhou Su , Haixia Peng , Yuntao Wang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

Beamforming techniques are utilized in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication to address the inherent path loss limitation, thereby establishing and maintaining reliable connections. However, adopting standard defined beamforming approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Hua Fang

Beamforming is central to the processing function of all phased arrays and becomes particularly challenging with a large number of antenna element (e.g. >100,000). The ability to beamform efficiently with reasonable power requirements is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-25 A J Faulkner , K Zarb Adami , J. G. Bij de Vaate , G. W. Kant , P. Pickard

In this paper, we develop a hybrid multiple access (MA) protocol for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink transmission network by incorporating the IRS-aided time-division MA (I-TDMA) protocol and the IRS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Piao Zeng , Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Deli Qiao , Abbas Jamalipour

This work presents a cost-effective technique for designing robust adaptive beamforming algorithms based on efficient covariance matrix reconstruction with iterative spatial power spectrum (CMR-ISPS). The proposed CMR-ISPS approach…

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This paper investigates the design of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems assisted by simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), which act as multi-functional programmable…

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