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Performance monitoring of object detection is crucial for safety-critical applications such as autonomous vehicles that operate under varying and complex environmental conditions. Currently, object detectors are evaluated using summary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Quazi Marufur Rahman , Niko Sünderhauf , Feras Dayoub

Many advanced techniques have been developed, tested and implemented in the last decades in almost all circular accelerators across the world to measure the linear optics. However, the greater availability and accuracy of beam diagnostics…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Andrea Franchi

Pixelated silicon detectors are state-of-the-art technology to achieve precise tracking and vertexing at collider experiments, designed to accurately measure the hit position of incoming particles in high rate and radiation environments.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-08 I. Zoi , A. Ebrahimi , F. Feindt , E. Garutti , P. Gunnellini , A. Hinzmann , C. Niemeyer , D. Pitzl , J. Schwandt , G. Steinbrück

We propose and examine the use of biphoton pairs, such as those created in parametric down conversion or four-wave mixing, to enhance the precision and the resolution of measuring optical displacements by position-sensitive detection. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Kevin Lyons , Shengshi Pang , Paul G. Kwiat , Andrew N. Jordan

Beam tests using tracking telescopes are a standard method for determining the spatial resolution of detectors. This requires the precise knowledge of the position resolution of beam tracks reconstructed at the Device Under Test (DUT). A…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-13 M. Antonello , L. Eikelmann , E. Garutti , R. Klanner , J. Schwandt , G. Steinbrück , A. Vauth

Due to the narrow beamwidths of laser Gaussian beams, accurate tracking of laser beam's angle-of-arrival is an important problem in mobile free-space optical communications. In most optical receivers today, fine tracking of angle-of-arrival…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Ming-Cheng Tsai , Muhammad Salman Bashir , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We report the development of a fast position-sensitive laser beam detector with a bandwidth that exceeds currently available detectors. The detector uses a fiber-optic bundle that spatially splits the incident beam, followed by a fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Isaac Chavez , Rongxin Huang , Kevin Henderson , Ernst-Ludwig Florin , Mark G. Raizen

We investigate the problem of wireless beam tracking on mmWave bands with the assistance of camera images. In particular, based on the user's beam indices used and camera images taken in the trajectory, we predict the optimal beam indices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yu Tian , Chenwei Wang

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam tracking method for mobility scenario in mmWave-band communications. When the position of the mobile changes in mobility scenario, the base-station needs to perform beam training frequently to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jisu Bae , Sun Hong Lim , Jin Hyeok Yoo , Jun Won Choi

Recent advances in CMOS technology have potential to significantly increase the performance, at low-cost, of an astronomical space telescope. Arrays of sensors in space missions are typically contiguous and act as a monolithic detector. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Maggie Y. Kautz , Douglas Kelly , Heejoo Choi , Young Sik Kim , Fernando Coronado , Cameron C. Ard , Patrick Ingraham , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

Computer vision is used in this work to detect lighting elements in buildings with the goal of improving the accuracy of previous methods to provide a precise inventory of the location and state of lamps. Using the framework developed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Francisco Troncoso-Pastoriza , Pablo Eguía-Oller , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Enrique Granada-Álvarez , Aitor Erkoreka

The main focus of beam alignment is to find the optimal beam which yields the largest received signal strength (RSS) with faster speed.In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient beam alignment scheme with our testbed. The algorithm we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Junyeol Hong , Hyeonjin Chung , Sunwoo Kim

Beam alignment is required in millimeter wave communication to ensure high data rate transmission. However, with narrow beamwidth in massive MIMO, beam alignment could be computationally intensive due to the large number of beam pairs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Orikumhi Igbafe , Jeongwan Kang , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

This paper considers the problem of estimating the position and orientation of a user equipped with a three-dimensional (3D) array receiving downlink far-field THz signals from multiple base stations with known positions and orientations.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Pinjun Zheng , Tarig Ballal , Hui Chen , Henk Wymeersch , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

A high-resolution displacement detection can be achieved by analyzing the scattered light of the trapping beams from the particle in optical tweezers. In some applications where trapping and displacement detection need to be separated, a…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks offer the potential for high-speed data transfer and precise localization, leveraging large antenna arrays and extensive bandwidths. However, these networks are challenged by significant path loss and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shang-Ho Tsai , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems rely on highly directional beamforming to overcome severe path loss and ensure robust communication links. However, selecting the optimal beam pair efficiently remains a challenge due to the large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Joseph K. Chege , Arie Yeredor , Martin Haardt

Accurate beam alignment is essential for beam-based millimeter wave communications. Conventional beam sweeping solutions often have large overhead, which is unacceptable for mobile applications like vehicle-to-everything. Learning-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Vutha Va , Takayuki Shimizu , Gaurav Bansal , Robert W. Heath

The localization of directional RF emitters presents significant challenges for electronic warfare applications. Traditional localization methods, designed for omnidirectional emitters, experience degraded performance when applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Fraser Williams , Akila Pemasiri , Dhammika Jayalath , Terry Martin , Clinton Fookes

A stable, reliable, and controllable orbit lock system is crucial to an electron (or ion) accelerator because the beam orbit and beam energy instability strongly affect the quality of the beam delivered to experimental halls. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhiyuan Chen , Wei Lu , Radhika Bhong , Yimin Hu , Brian Freeman , Adam Carpenter