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Device-free localization (DFL) based on the received signal strength (RSS) measurements of radio frequency (RF)links is the method using RSS variation due to the presence of the target to localize the target without attaching any device.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Zhenghuan Wang , Heng Liu , Shengxin Xu , Xiangyuan Bu , Jianping An

Locating a target is key in many applications, namely in high-stakes real-world scenarios, like detecting humans or obstacles in vehicular networks. In scenarios where precise statistics of the measurement noise are unavailable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-17 João Domingos , Cláudia Soares , João Xavier

This paper considers the problem of localising a stationary signal source using a team of mobile agents which only take binary measurements. Background false detection rates and missed detection probabilities are incorporated into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Daniel D. Selvaratnam , Iman Shames , Jonathan H. Manton , Branko Ristic

Localized statistical channel modeling (LSCM) is crucial for effective performance evaluation in digital twin-assisted network optimization. Solely relying on the multi-beam reference signal receiving power (RSRP), LSCM aims to model the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Xinyu Qin , Ye Xue , Qi Yan , Shutao Zhang , Bingsheng Peng , Tsung-Hui Chang

Global localization is essential for robot navigation, of which the first step is to retrieve a query from the map database. This problem is called place recognition. In recent years, LiDAR scan based place recognition has drawn attention…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Xuecheng Xu , Huan Yin , Zexi Chen , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Metaheuristics are known to be strong in solving large-scale instances of computationally hard problems. However, their efficiency still needs exploration in the context of instance structure, scale and numerical properties for many of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-11 David Chalupa , Peter Nielsen

In this paper we consider the problem of localizing a set of broadband sources from a finite window of measurements. In the case of narrowband sources this can be reduced to the problem of spectral line estimation, where our goal is simply…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Coleman DeLude , Rakshith Sharma , Santhosh Karnik , Christopher Hood , Mark Davenport , Justin Romberg

This paper investigates the capabilities and effectiveness of backward sensing centered on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We demonstrate that the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation of incident waves in the far-field regime…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Fuhai Wang , Tiebin Mi , Chun Wang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

Accurate outdoor localization in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge for wireless communication and sensing systems. Existing methods, including positioning based on the Global Navigation Satellite System…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jiajie Xu , Yifan Guo , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Tingting Yang

We consider the sensor network localization problem, which is closely related to multidimensional scaling and Euclidean distance matrix completion. Given a ground truth configuration of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^\ell$, we observe a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Christopher Criscitiello , Andrew D. McRae , Quentin Rebjock , Nicolas Boumal

We develop a framework for localized source detection in dynamical systems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations based on first and second-order sensitivity analysis. Building on the standard adjoint formulation, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Qi Wang , Zejian You

Establishing bounds on the accuracy achievable by localization techniques represents a fundamental technical issue. Bounds on localization accuracy have been derived for cases in which the position of an agent is estimated on the basis of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Francesco Montorsi , Santiago Mazuelas , Giorgio M. Vitetta , Moe Z. Win

A method is proposed, based on scan statistics, to detect, identify, and localize illicit radiological material using mobile sensors in an urban environment. Our method handles varying levels of background radiation that change according to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Michael D. Porter , Alphonse Akakpo

In this manuscript we consider the well-established problem of TDOA-based source localization and propose a comprehensive analysis of its solutions for arbitrary sensor measurements and placements. More specifically, we define the TDOA map…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Marco Compagnoni , Roberto Notari , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

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 study a stealthy range-sensor placement problem where a set of range sensors are to be placed with respect to targets to effectively localize them while maintaining a degree of stealthiness from the targets. This is an open and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Mohammad Hussein Yoosefian Nooshabadi , Rifat Sipahi , Laurent Lessard

A practical challenge which arises in the operation of sensor networks is the presence of sensor faults, biases, or adversarial attacks, which can lead to significant errors incurring in the localization of the agents, thereby undermining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Shiraz Khan , Inseok Hwang

Recent data- and learning-based sound source localization (SSL) methods have shown strong performance in challenging acoustic scenarios. However, little work has been done on adapting such methods to track consistently multiple sources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 David Diaz-Guerra , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

The overarching goals in image-based localization are scale, robustness and speed. In recent years, approaches based on local features and sparse 3D point-cloud models have both dominated the benchmarks and seen successful realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Simon Lynen , Bernhard Zeisl , Dror Aiger , Michael Bosse , Joel Hesch , Marc Pollefeys , Roland Siegwart , Torsten Sattler

This paper describes a sound source localization (SSL) technique that combines an $\alpha$-stable model for the observed signal with a neural network-based approach for modeling steering vectors. Specifically, a physics-informed neural…