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We address the two fundamental problems of spatial field reconstruction and sensor selection in heterogeneous sensor networks: (i) how to efficiently perform spatial field reconstruction based on measurements obtained simultaneously from…
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An important preliminary procedure in multi-sensor data fusion is \textit{sensor registration}, and the key step in this procedure is to estimate sensor biases from their noisy measurements. There are generally two difficulties in this bias…
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The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) were extensively investigated in the past decades for solving separable convex optimization problems. Fewer researchers focused on exploring its convergence properties for the nonconvex…
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