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In this paper, a liquid lens-based imaging receiver is proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communication (VLC) systems. By dynamically adjusting the focal length and orientation angles of the liquid lens, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Kapila W. S. Palitharathna , Christodoulos Skouroumounis , Ioannis Krikidis

Camera-based visible light positioning (VLP) has emerged as a promising indoor positioning technique. However, the need for dedicated luminaire infrastructure and on-target cameras in existing algorithms may limit their scalability and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Wenxuan Pan , Yang Yang , Dong Wei , Meng Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu

This paper addresses the task of estimating the light arriving from all directions to a 3D point observed at a selected pixel in an RGB image. This task is challenging because it requires predicting a mapping from a partial scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shuran Song , Thomas Funkhouser

The measure of the distances and luminosities of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) led to the discovery that many GRB properties are strongly correlated with their intrinsic luminosity, leading to the construction of reliable luminosity indicators.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 J-L. Atteia

The positioning accuracy of the mobile laser scanning (MLS) system can reach the level of centimeter under the conditions where GPS works normally. However, in GPS-denied environments this accuracy can be reduced to the decimeter or even…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 WI. Liu , Zhixiong Li , Shuaishuai Sun , Reza Malekian , Zhenjun Ma , Weihua Li

Autonomous robotic tasks require actively perceiving the environment to achieve application-specific goals. In this paper, we address the problem of positioning an RGB camera to collect the most informative images to represent an unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Liren Jin , Xieyuanli Chen , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

In this work, we study the design of receivers for uplink multi-user systems, aiming to estimate both the channel and the transmitted symbols. We consider two estimation strategies: (i) a joint estimation approach, where the channel and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Manual lifting tasks are a major contributor to work-related musculoskeletal disorders, and effective ergonomic risk assessment is essential for quantifying physical exposure and informing ergonomic interventions. The Revised NIOSH Lifting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Mohammad Sadra Rajabi , Aanuoluwapo Ojelade , Sunwook Kim , Maury A. Nussbaum

We consider the potential for positioning with a system where antenna arrays are deployed as a large intelligent surface (LIS). We derive Fisher-informations and Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) in closed-form for terminals along the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Sha Hu , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors

A visible light communication (VLC) system can adopt multi-color light emitting diode (LED) arrays to support multiple users. In this paper, a multi-layer coding and constrained partial group decoding (CPGD) method is proposed to tackle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-22 Guangtao Zheng , Chen Gong , Zhengyuan Xu

Locating mobile devices precisely in indoor scenarios is a challenging task because of the signal diffraction and reflection in complicated environments. One vital cause deteriorating the localization performance is the inevitable power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Mengyuan Xu , Mingqing Liu , Qingwei Jiang , Wen Fang , Qingwen Liu , Shengli Zhou

3D object detection and pose estimation has been studied extensively in recent decades for its potential applications in robotics. However, there still remains challenges when we aim at detecting multiple objects while retaining low false…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Ruotao He , Juan Rojas , Yisheng Guan

Mutual localization plays a crucial role in multi-robot cooperation. CREPES, a novel system that focuses on six degrees of freedom (DOF) relative pose estimation for multi-robot systems, is proposed in this paper. CREPES has a compact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zhiren Xun , Jian Huang , Zhehan Li , Zhenjun Ying , Yingjian Wang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

In this paper, we consider the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for estimation of a lens-embedded antenna array with deterministic parameters. Unlike CRLB of uniform linear array (ULA), it is noted that CRLB for direction of arrival (DoA) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Jae-Nam Shim , Hongseok Park , GeeYong Suk , Chan-Byoung Chae , Dong Ku Kim

Visible light communications (VLC) is an emerging field in technology and research. Estimating the channel taps is a major requirement for designing reliable communication systems. Due to the nonlinear characteristics of the VLC channel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Anil Yesilkaya , Onur Karatalay , Arif Selcuk Ogrenci , Erdal Panayirci

We study whether vision-language models (VLMs) can solve relative camera pose estimation (RCPE) from image pairs, a direct test of multi-view spatial reasoning. We cast RCPE as a discrete verbal classification task and introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ken Deng , Yifu Qiu , Yoni Kasten , Shay B. Cohen , Yftah Ziser

Accurate 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and grasping. Previous methods follow a local optimization approach which minimizes the distance between closest point pairs to handle the rotation ambiguity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Meng Tian , Liang Pan , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

The nearest neighbor spacing distribution (NNSD) is one of common methods in statistical analysis of nuclear energy levels. In this paper, we have proposed Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) method to evaluate parameter of (NNSD)'s which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 M. A. Jafarizadeh , N. Fouladi , H. Sabri , B. Rashidian Maleki

In this letter, a novel run-length limited (RLL) code is reported. In addition to providing a strict DC-balance and other relevant features for visible light communication (VLC) applications, the proposed 5B10B code presents enhanced error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Vitalio Alfonso Reguera

Advancements in lighting systems and photodetectors provide opportunities to develop viable alternatives to conventional communication and sensing technologies, especially in the vehicular industry. Most of the studies that propose visible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , Russ Messenger , John F. O'Hara , Sabit Ekin