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We prototype a PCB-realized tunable load network whose ports serve as additional "virtual" VNA ports in a "Virtual VNA" measurement setup. The latter enables the estimation of a many-port antenna array's scattering matrix with a few-port…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jean Tapie , Philipp del Hougne

This paper introduces a method based on a deep neural network (DNN) that is perfectly capable of processing radar data from extremely thinned radar apertures. The proposed DNN processing can provide both aliasing-free radar imaging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Christian Schuessler , Marcel Hoffmann , Martin Vossiek

EfficientNet models are convolutional neural networks optimized for parameter allocation by jointly balancing network width, depth, and resolution. Renowned for their exceptional accuracy, these models have become a standard for image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Guilherme Vieira Neto , Marcos Eduardo Valle

We introduce VPNet, a novel model-driven neural network architecture based on variable projection (VP). Applying VP operators to neural networks results in learnable features, interpretable parameters, and compact network structures. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Péter Kovács , Gergő Bognár , Christian Huber , Mario Huemer

Since S-parameter measurements without uncertainty cannot claim any credibility, the uncertainties in full two-port Vector Network Analyser (VNA) measurements were estimated using total complex differentials (Total Differential Errors). To…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 N. I. Yannopoulou , P. E. Zimourtopoulos

An analytical method was developed, to estimate uncertainties in full two-port Vector Network Analyzer measurements, using total differentials of S-parameters. System error uncertainties were also estimated from total differentials…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-07 Nikolitsa Yannopoulou , Petros Zimourtopoulos

Vision Transformers are used via a customized TransUNet architecture, which is a hybrid model combining Transformers into a U-Net backbone, to achieve precise, automated, and fast segmentation of radio astronomy data affected by calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Nicoletta Sanvitale , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Virginia Cuciti , Emanuele De Rubeis , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Valentina Vacca

In this work we present a new efficient approach to Human Action Recognition called Video Transformer Network (VTN). It leverages the latest advances in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing and applies them to video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Alexander Kozlov , Vadim Andronov , Yana Gritsenko

This study presents a new method for measuring the propagation constant of transmission lines using a single line standard and without prior calibration of a two-port vector network analyzer (VNA). The method provides accurate results by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-09 Ziad Hatab , Arezoo Abdi , Gregor Steinbauer , Michael Ernst Gadringer , Wolfgang Bösch

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are reshaping the field of information processing. With their exponential growth challenging existing electronic hardware, optical neural networks (ONNs) are emerging to process DNN tasks in the optical domain…

This paper presents VTN, a transformer-based framework for video recognition. Inspired by recent developments in vision transformers, we ditch the standard approach in video action recognition that relies on 3D ConvNets and introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Daniel Neimark , Omri Bar , Maya Zohar , Dotan Asselmann

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) has become the most promising method for object recognition, repeatedly demonstrating record breaking results for image classification and object detection in recent years. However, a very deep CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Yunchao Gong , Liu Liu , Ming Yang , Lubomir Bourdev

We present a new method for vectorization of technical line drawings, such as floor plans, architectural drawings, and 2D CAD images. Our method includes (1) a deep learning-based cleaning stage to eliminate the background and imperfections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Vage Egiazarian , Oleg Voynov , Alexey Artemov , Denis Volkhonskiy , Aleksandr Safin , Maria Taktasheva , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

We estimate the scattering matrix of an arbitrarily complex linear, passive, time-invariant system with $N$ monomodal lumped ports by inputting and outputting waves only via a fixed set of $N_\mathrm{A}<N$ ports while terminating the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Philipp del Hougne

3D neural networks are widely used in real-world applications (e.g., AR/VR headsets, self-driving cars). They are required to be fast and accurate; however, limited hardware resources on edge devices make these requirements rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Shengyu Zhao , Kevin Shao , Song Han

The reconstruction of electrical current densities from magnetic field measurements is an important technique with applications in materials science, circuit design, quality control, plasma physics, and biology. Analytic reconstruction…

We refine the recently introduced "Virtual VNA 3.0" technique to remove the need for coherent detection. The resulting "Virtual VNA 3.1" technique can unambiguously estimate the full scattering matrix of a non-reciprocal, linear, passive,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Philipp del Hougne

Synthetic Aperture Vector Flow Imaging (SA-VFI) can visualize complex cardiac and vascular blood flow patterns at high temporal resolution with a large field of view. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly used in image and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Thomas Robins , Antonio Stanziola , Kai Reimer , Peter Weinberg , Meng-Xing Tang

Support vector machine (SVM) based multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has delivered promising performance in decoding specific task states based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the human brain. Conventionally, the…

Modern radio telescopes combine thousands of receivers, long-distance networks, large-scale compute hardware, and intricate software. Due to this complexity, failures occur relatively frequently. In this work we propose novel use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Michael Mesarcik , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Christiaan Meijer , Walter Jansen , Elena Ranguelova , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort