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Maneuvering target tracking is a challenging problem for sensor systems because of the unpredictability of the targets' motions. This paper proposes a novel data-driven method for learning the dynamical motion model of a target.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Mengwei Sun , Mike E. Davies , Ian K. Proudler , James R. Hopgood

Recent advances in pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated their capabilities in capturing universal knowledge, making them promising for radar signal processing applications. Nevertheless, directly fine-tuning PLMs on radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Qiying Hu , Yaowen Li , Shengyi Zhang , Chuan Huang , Yu Liu , You He

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has become a rapid and non-destructive solution for road subsurface distress (RSD) detection. However, recognizing RSD from GPR images is labor-intensive and heavily relies on the expertise of inspectors. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chang Peng , Bao Yang , Meiqi Li , Ge Zhang , Hui Sun , Zhenyu Jiang

In recent years there has been significant improvement in the capability of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) methods, building on the success of both hand-crafted and learnt visual features, temporal filtering and usage of semantic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier

We address the problem of robot localization using ground penetrating radar (GPR) sensors. Current approaches for localization with GPR sensors require a priori maps of the system's environment as well as access to approximate global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

In this paper we consider the development of algorithms for the automatic detection of buried threats using ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. GPR is one of the most studied and successful modalities for automatic buried threat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Jordan M. Malof , Daniel Reichman , Andrew Karem , Hichem Frigui , Dominic K. C. Ho , Joseph N. Wilson , Wen-Hsiung Lee , William Cummings , Leslie M. Collins

Radar target detection in the presence of a mixture of non-Gaussian clutter and white thermal noise is a challenging problem. This paper proposes a Rectified Flow Matching-based method for radar detection, termed D-RFM. Unlike existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 P. Meena , Y. A. Rouzoumka , J. Pinsolle , C. Ren , M. N. El Korso , J. -P. Ovarlez

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a mature geophysical method that has gained increasing popularity in planetary science over the past decade. GPR has been utilised both for Lunar and Martian missions providing pivotal information regarding…

In this work, we develop and compare two innovative strategies for parameter estimation and radar detection of multiple point-like targets. The first strategy, which appears here for the first time, jointly exploits the maximum likelihood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Pia Addabbo , Jun Liu , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci

There has been exciting recent progress in using radar as a sensor for robot navigation due to its increased robustness to varying environmental conditions. However, within these different radar perception systems, ground penetrating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) based localization has gained significant recognition in robotics due to its ability to detect stable subsurface features, offering advantages in environments where traditional sensors like cameras and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Pengyu Zhang , Xieyuanli Chen , Yuwei Chen , Beizhen Bi , Zhuo Xu , Tian Jin , Xiaotao Huang , Liang Shen

Accurate estimation of subsurface material properties, such as soil moisture, is critical for wildfire risk assessment and precision agriculture. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive geophysical technique widely used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Zixin Wang , Ishfaq Aziz , Mohamad Alipour

Buried landmines and unexploded remnants of war are a constant threat for the population of many countries that have been hit by wars in the past years. The huge amount of human lives lost due to this phenomenon has been a strong motivation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Paolo Bestagini , Federico Lombardi , Maurizio Lualdi , Francesco Picetti , Stefano Tubaro

Driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars have to rely on sensors to perceive their environment. A heterogeneous set of sensors is used to perform this task robustly. Among them, radar sensors are indispensable because of their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Elmar Messner , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

In tracking radar, the sensing environment often varies significantly over a track duration due to the target's trajectory and dynamic interference. Adapting the radar's waveform using partial information about the state of the scene has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone

This paper proposes a novel particle filter for tracking time-varying states of multiple targets jointly from superpositional data, which depend on the sum of contributions of all targets. Many conventional tracking methods rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Nobutaka Ito , Simon Godsill

Noises are common events in seismic reflection data that have very striking features in seismograms, affecting seismic data processing and interpretation. Noise attenuation is an essential phase in seismic processing data, usually resulting…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Ahmed J. R. Al-Heety , Hassan A. Thabit

This study presents a technique for processing Stepfrequency continuous wave (SFCW) ground penetrating radar (GPR) data to detect tree roots. SFCW GPR is portable and enables precise control of energy levels, balancing depth and resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Wenhao Luo , Yee Hui Lee , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

Passive radar has key advantages over its active counterpart in terms of cost and stealth. In this paper, we address passive radar imaging problem by interferometric inversion using a spectral estimation method with a priori information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Conventional radar transmits electromagnetic waves towards the targets of interest. In between the outgoing pulses, the radar measures the signal reflected from the targets to determine their presence, range, velocity and other…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Deborah Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar