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We address the problem of estimating time and frequency shifts of a known waveform in the presence of multiple measurement vectors (MMVs). This problem naturally arises in radar imaging and wireless communications. Specifically, a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Maral Safari , Sajad Daei , Farzan Haddadi

Received signal strength (RSS)-based wireless localization is easy to implement at low cost. In practice,exact positions of anchors may not be available. This paper focuses on determining the location of a source in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Yang Liu , Guojun Han , Yonghua Wang , Zheng Xue , Jing Chen

We propose a distributed positioning algorithm to estimate the unknown positions of a number of target nodes, given distance measurements between target nodes and between target nodes and a number of reference nodes at known positions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Luba Tetruashvili , Erik G. Ström , Yair Censor

Calibration of a sensor array is more involved if the antennas have direction dependent gains and multiple calibrator sources are simultaneously present. We study this case for a sensor array with arbitrary geometry but identical elements,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-10 Stefan J. Wijnholds , Alle-Jan van der Veen

This paper introduces a multi-frequency factorization method for imaging a time-dependent source, specifically to recover its spatial support and the associated excitation instants. Using far-field data from two opposite directions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guanqiu Ma , Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

This paper presents a novel approach for indoor acoustic source localization using microphone arrays and based on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed solution is, to the best of our knowledge, the first published work in…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Juan Manuel Vera-Diaz , Daniel Pizarro , Javier Macias-Guarasa

This work presents a method for information fusion in source localization applications. The method utilizes the concept of optimal mass transport in order to construct estimates of the spatial spectrum using a convex barycenter formulation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler , Andreas Jakobsson , Johan Karlsson

Recent developments in Phased Array direct positioning methods have improved accuracy for passively geo-locating multiple radio frequency-emitting signal sources. However, the number of geo-localisable signal sources is still limited by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Joon Wayn Cheong , Andrew G Dempster

Motivated by an example from remote sensing of gas emission sources, we derive two novel change point procedures for multivariate time series where, in contrast to classical change point literature, the changes are not required to be…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-07 Idris Eckley , Claudia Kirch , Silke Weber

In the Multiple Measurements Vector (MMV) model, measurement vectors are connected to unknown, jointly sparse signal vectors through a linear regression model employing a single known measurement matrix (or dictionary). Typically, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-05 Esa Ollila

Multi-source localization based on received signal strength (RSS) has drawn great interest in wireless sensor networks. However, the shadow fading term caused by obstacles cannot be separated from the received signal, which leads to severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Yueyan Chu , Wenbin Guo , Kangyong You , Lei Zhao , Tao Peng , Wenbo Wang

Localizing linearly moving sound sources using microphone arrays is challenging as the transient nature of the signal leads to relatively short observation periods. Commonly, a moving focus is used and most methods operate at least…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Christian H. Kasess , Wolfgang Kreuzer , Prateek Soni , Holger Waubke

The problem of source localization with ad hoc microphone networks in noisy and reverberant enclosures, given a training set of prerecorded measurements, is addressed in this paper. The training set is assumed to consist of a limited number…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Ronen Talmon , Sharon Gannot

We consider the problem of positioning a cloud of points in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, using noisy measurements of a subset of pairwise distances. This task has applications in various areas, such as sensor network localization and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari

This paper addresses a factorization method for imaging the support of a wave-number-dependent source function from multi-frequency data measured at a finite pair of symmetric receivers in opposite directions. The source function is given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu , Guanqiu Ma

The motivation of this work is an inverse problem for the acoustic wave equation, where an array of sensors probes an unknown medium with pulses and measures the scattered waves. The goal of the inversion is to determine from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

We learn, in an unsupervised way, an embedding from sequences of radar images that is suitable for solving the place recognition problem with complex radar data. Our method is based on invariant instance feature learning but is tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Matthew Gadd , Daniele De Martini , Paul Newman

We develop a new unsupervised symmetry learning method that starts with raw data and provides the minimal generator of an underlying Lie group of symmetries, together with a symmetry-equivariant representation of the data, which turns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Efe , Arkadas Ozakin

This paper presents a sound source localization strategy that relies on a microphone array embedded in an unmanned ground vehicle and an asynchronous close-talking microphone near the operator. A signal coarse alignment strategy is combined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Victor Liu , Timothy Du , Jordy Sehn , Jack Collier , François Grondin

Sparse wideband sensor array design for sensor location optimisation is highly nonlinear and it is traditionally solved by genetic algorithms, simulated annealing or other similar optimization methods. However, this is an extremely…

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