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This paper presents a system for robust, large-scale topological localisation using Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) scanning radar. We learn a metric space for embedding polar radar scans using CNN and NetVLAD architectures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Ştefan Săftescu , Matthew Gadd , Daniele De Martini , Dan Barnes , Paul Newman

Automotive mmWave radar has been widely used in the automotive industry due to its small size, low cost, and complementary advantages to optical sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, etc.) in adverse weathers, e.g., fog, raining, and snowing. On…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Pengen Gao , Shengkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Target classification is an important task of automotive radar systems. In this work, a concept for estimating the height of vehicles to allow for a differentiation between passenger cars, trucks, and others, is presented and discussed.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Soren Kohnert , Michael Vogt , Reinhard Stolle

By multiplexing information symbols in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a promising candidate for future wireless communication in high-mobility scenarios. In addition to the superior communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Kecheng Zhang , Zhongjie Li , Weijie Yuan , Yunlong Cai , Feifei Gao

Combining unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with through-the-wall radar can realize moving targets detection in complex building scenes. However, clutters generated by obstacles and static objects are always stronger and non-stationary, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Xiaodong Qu , Xiaolong Sun , Feiyang Liu , Hao Zhang , Shichao Zhong , Xiaopeng Yang

In this paper, we report on the development progress of correlation-based optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR). Substituting the direct detection receiver with a coherent receiver enables to extract the phase and polarization…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-30 Florian Azendorf , André Sandmann , Michael Eiselt , Bernhard Schmauss

Spinning, frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars with 360 degree coverage have been gaining popularity for autonomous-vehicle navigation. However, unlike `fixed' automotive radar, commercially available spinning radar systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Daniil Lisus , Keenan Burnett , David J. Yoon , Richard Poulton , John Marshall , Timothy D. Barfoot

Accurate targets detection and tracking with mmWave radar is a key sensing capability that will enable more intelligent systems, create smart, efficient, automated system. This paper proposes an end-to-end detection-estimation-track…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Jiang Zhu , Menghuai Xu , Ruohai Guo , Fangyong Wang , Guangying Zheng , Fengzhong Qu

This work presents a 340-GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) pulse-Doppler radar. The radar system is based on a transceiver module with about one milli-Watt output power and more than 30-GHz bandwidth. The front-end optics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-31 Tomas Bryllert , Marlene Bonmann , Jan Stake

Target localization based on frequency diverse array (FDA) radar has lately garnered significant research interest. A linear frequency offset (FO) across FDA antennas yields a range-angle dependent beampattern that allows for joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Wanghan Lv , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Shichao Chen

Visual object tracking is one of the major challenges in the field of computer vision. Correlation Filter (CF) trackers are one of the most widely used categories in tracking. Though numerous tracking algorithms based on CFs are available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Litu Rout , Priya Mariam Raju , Deepak Mishra , Rama Krishna Sai Subrahmanyam Gorthi

Learning robust radar perception models directly from real measurements is costly due to the need for controlled experiments, repeated calibration, and extensive annotation. This paper proposes a lightweight simulation-to-real (sim2real)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Huy Trinh , Sebastian Ratto , Elliot Creager , George Shaker

In radar systems, high resolution in the Doppler dimension is important for detecting slow-moving targets as it allows for more distinct separation between these targets and clutter, or stationary objects. However, achieving sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Denisa Qosja , Kilian Barth , Simon Wagner

We report precision atmospheric spectroscopy of $CO_2$ using a laser heterodyne radiometer (LHR) calibrated with an optical frequency comb. Using the comb-calibrated LHR, we record spectra of atmospheric $CO_2$ near 1572.33 nm with a…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-03 Ryan K. Cole , Connor Fredrick , Newton H. Nguyen , Scott A. Diddams

Pairing coherent correlation OTDR with low-complexity analysis methods, we investigate the detection of fast temperature changes and vibrations in optical fibers. A localization accuracy of ~2 m and extraction of vibration amplitudes and…

In this paper, we propose a radar odometry structure that directly utilizes radar velocity measurements for dead reckoning while maintaining its ability to update estimations within the Kalman filter framework. Specifically, we employ the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hoang Viet Do , Yong Hun Kim , Joo Han Lee , Min Ho Lee , Jin Woo Song

We studied a target tracking algorithm based on millimeter-wave (MMW) radar in an autonomous driving environment. Aiming at the cluster matching in the target tracking stage, a new weighted feature similarity algorithm is proposed, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Rongqian Chen , Yingquan Zou , Anyong Gao , Leshi Chen

In the maintenance of optical fiber networks, there is a growing demand for high-precision measurement of optical loss distribution and fault locations over long distances. In this study, we propose an OCDR method incorporating periodic…

We demonstrate an experimental phase optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) system capable of simultaneous detection and classification of various environmental events, such as wind-induced fiber movement, vehicle movement, and audio…

In distributed fiber-optic sensing based on optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR), Doppler frequency shifts due to the changes of disturbances during one sweep period introduce demodulation errors that accumulate along both the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-28 Qiang Yang , Weilin Xie , Congfan Wang , Bowen Li , Xin Li , Xiang Zheng , Wei Wei , Yi Dong