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The joint adaptive detection of multiple point-like targets in scenarios characterized by different clutter types is still an open problem in the radar community. In this paper, we provide a solution to this problem by devising detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Linjie Yan , Sudan Han , Chengpeng Hao , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci

We address high dimensional covariance estimation for elliptical distributed samples, which are also known as spherically invariant random vectors (SIRV) or compound-Gaussian processes. Specifically we consider shrinkage methods that are…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-20 Yilun Chen , Ami Wiesel , Alfred O. Hero

This paper deals with the problem of clustering data returned by a radar sensor network that monitors a region where multiple moving targets are present. The network is formed by nodes with limited functionalities that transmit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Linjie Yan , Pia Addabbo , Nicomino Fiscante , Carmine Clemente , Chengpeng Hao , Gaetano Giunta , Danilo Orlando

The determination of the covariance matrix and its inverse, the precision matrix, is critical in the statistical analysis of cosmological measurements. The covariance matrix is typically estimated with a limited number of simulations at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Marnix J. Looijmans , Mike Shengbo Wang , Florian Beutler

We tackle covariance estimation in low-sample scenarios, employing a structured covariance matrix with shrinkage methods. These involve convexly combining a low-bias/high-variance empirical estimate with a biased regularization estimator,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-28 Olivier Flasseur , Eric Thiébaut , Loïc Denis , Maud Langlois

Covariance matrix estimation is an important problem in multivariate data analysis, both from theoretical as well as applied points of view. Many simple and popular covariance matrix estimators are known to be severely affected by model…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-21 Soumya Chakraborty , Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh

Shrinkage can effectively improve the condition number and accuracy of covariance matrix estimation, especially for low-sample-support applications with the number of training samples smaller than the dimensionality. This paper investigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Jun Tong , Rui Hu , Jiangtao Xi , Zhitao Xiao , Qinghua Guo , Yanguang Yu

Shuffled linear regression (SLR) seeks to estimate latent features through a linear transformation, complicated by unknown permutations in the measurement dimensions. This problem extends traditional least-squares (LS) and Least Absolute…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Hang Liu , Anna Scaglione

We present a comparison between various algorithms of inference of covariance and precision matrices in small datasets of real vectors, of the typical length and dimension of human brain activity time series retrieved by functional Magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-07 Miguel Ibáñez-Berganza , Carlo Lucibello , Francesca Santucci , Tommaso Gili , Andrea Gabrielli

The stretch processing architecture is commonly used for frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar due to its inexpensive hardware, low sampling rate, and simple architecture. However, the stretch processing architecture is not able…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Moein Movafagh , Avik Santra , Daniel Oloumi

The problem of estimating a spiked covariance matrix in high dimensions under Frobenius loss, and the parallel problem of estimating the noise in spiked PCA is investigated. We propose an estimator of the noise parameter by minimizing an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-28 Didier Chételat , Martin T. Wells

This paper proposes low-complexity robust adaptive beamforming (RAB) techniques based on shrinkage methods. We firstly briefly review a Low-Complexity Shrinkage-Based Mismatch Estimation (LOCSME) batch algorithm to estimate the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 H. Ruan , R. C. de Lamare

A popular regularized (shrinkage) covariance estimator is the shrinkage sample covariance matrix (SCM) which shares the same set of eigenvectors as the SCM but shrinks its eigenvalues toward its grand mean. In this paper, a more general…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-13 Esa Ollila , Daniel P. Palomar , Frederic Pascal

Joint radar and communication (RadCom) systems have been proposed to integrate radar and communication into one platform and achieve spectrum sharing in recent years. However, the joint RadCom systems cause the clutter modulation and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Jifa Zhang

The kernel trick concept, formulated as an inner product in a feature space, facilitates powerful extensions to many well-known algorithms. While the kernel matrix involves inner products in the feature space, the sample covariance matrix…

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This paper proposes novel spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio networks. By assuming known transmitter pulse shaping filter, synchronous and asynchronous receiver scenarios have been considered. For each of these scenarios, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Luc Vandendorpe

The subspace-based techniques are widely utilized in various scientific fields, and they need accurate estimation of the signal subspace dimension. The classic RMT estimator for model order estimation based on random matrix theory assumes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Huiyue Yi , Wuxiong Zhang , Hui Xu

Adaptive algorithms belong to an important class of algorithms used in radar target detection to overcome prior uncertainty of interference covariance. The contamination of the empirical covariance matrix by the useful signal leads to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Boris N. Oreshkin

Kernel ridge regression (KRR), also known as the least-squares support vector machine, is a fundamental method for learning functions from finite samples. While most existing analyses focus on the noisy setting with constant-level label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-14 Jihao Long , Xiaojun Peng , Lei Wu

In this work, we investigate sensing parameter estimation in the presence of clutter in perceptive mobile networks (PMNs) that integrate radar sensing into mobile communications. Performing clutter suppression before sensing parameter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Hang Li , Hongming Yang , Qinghua Guo , J. Andrew Zhang , Yang Xiang , Yashan Pang