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In this paper, we propose a new solution for the detection problem of a coherent target in heterogeneous environments. Specifically, we first assume that clutter returns from different range bins share the same covariance structure but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Angelo Coluccia , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci

This paper considers the problem of estimating a high-dimensional (HD) covariance matrix when the sample size is smaller, or not much larger, than the dimensionality of the data, which could potentially be very large. We develop a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-22 Esa Ollila , Elias Raninen

In many astrophysical settings covariance matrices of large datasets have to be determined empirically from a finite number of mock realisations. The resulting noise degrades inference and precludes it completely if there are fewer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Benjamin Joachimi

This paper considers sparse spiked covariance matrix models in the high-dimensional setting and studies the minimax estimation of the covariance matrix and the principal subspace as well as the minimax rank detection. The optimal rate of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

We address adaptive radar detection of targets embedded in ground clutter dominated environments characterized by a symmetrically structured power spectral density. At the design stage, we leverage on the spectrum symmetry for the…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-25 A. De Maio , D. Orlando , C. Hao , G. Foglia

We propose a distributionally robust formulation for simultaneously estimating the covariance matrix and the precision matrix of a random vector.The proposed model minimizes the worst-case weighted sum of the Frobenius loss of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-19 Renjie Chen , Viet Anh Nguyen , Huifu Xu

In this paper, we address the problem of classifying data within the radar reference window in terms of statistical properties. Specifically, we partition these data into statistically homogeneous subsets by identifying possible clutter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Chaoran Yin , Linjie Yan , Chengpeng Hao , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Gaetano Giunta , Alfonso Farina , Danilo Orlando

We seek to improve estimates of the power spectrum covariance matrix from a limited number of simulations by employing a novel statistical technique known as shrinkage estimation. The shrinkage technique optimally combines an empirical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adrian C. Pope , István Szapudi

Standard noise radars, as well as noise-type radars such as quantum two-mode squeezing radar, are characterized by a covariance matrix with a very specific structure. This matrix has four independent parameters: the amplitude of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 David Luong , Bhashyam Balaji , Sreeraman Rajan

We study the problem of estimating a rank one signal matrix from an observed matrix generated by corrupting the signal with additive rotationally invariant noise. We develop a new class of approximate message-passing algorithms for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Rishabh Dudeja , Songbin Liu , Junjie Ma

The spherically invariant random process (SIRP) clutter model is commonly used in scenarios where the radar clutter cannot be correctly modeled as a Gaussian process. In this short communication, we devise a novel Maximum-Likelihood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Bruno Mériaux , Xin Zhang , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is one of the most effective approaches to suppressing ground clutters in airborne radar systems. It basically takes two forms, i.e., full-dimension STAP (FD-STAP) and reduced-dimension STAP (RD-STAP).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Di Song , Shengyao Chen , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu

We propose an analytical framework based on stochastic geometry (SG) formulations to estimate a radar's detection performance under generalized discrete clutter conditions. We model the spatial distribution of discrete clutter scatterers as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Shobha Sundar Ram , Gaurav Singh , Gourab Ghatak

Multichannel frequency estimation with incomplete data and miscellaneous noises arises in array signal processing, modal analysis, wireless communications, and so on. In this paper, we consider maximum-likelihood(-like) optimization methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Xunmeng Wu , Zai Yang , Zongben Xu

In this paper, we tackle for the first time the problem of maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) parameter over time-varying single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channels. Both the data-aided (DA) and the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-19 Faouzi Bellili , Rabii Meftehi , Sofiene Affes , Alex Stephenne

This letter deals with the problem of clutter edge detection and localization in training data. To this end, the problem is formulated as a binary hypothesis test assuming that the ranks of the clutter covariance matrix are known, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Tianqi Wang , Da Xu , Chengpeng Hao , Pia Addabbo , Danilo Orlando

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an effective tool for detecting a moving target in spaceborne or airborne radar systems. Statistical-based STAP methods generally need sufficient statistically independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Ke Sun , Hao Zhang , Gang Li , Huadong Meng , Xiqin Wang

Adaptive algorithms based on sample matrix inversion belong to an important class of algorithms used in radar target detection to overcome prior uncertainty of interference covariance. Sample matrix inversion problem is generally ill…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Boris N. Oreshkin , Peter A. Bakulev

Electronic Phased-Array Radars offer new possibilities for Optimization of Radar Search Pattern by using bi-dimensional beam forming and beam steering, along both elevation and azimuth axes. The minimization of the Time-Budget required for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Yann Briheche , Frédéric Barbaresco , Fouad Bennis , Damien Chablat

Estimating the number of signals embedded in noise is a fundamental problem in array signal processing. The classic RMT estimator based on random matrix theory (RMT) tends to under-estimate the number of signals as it does not consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Huiyue Yi