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We propose an ultrasound speckle filtering method for not only preserving various edge features but also filtering tissue-dependent complex speckle noises in ultrasound images. The key idea is to detect these various edges using a phase…

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Ultrasound images formed by delay-and-sum beamforming are plagued by artifacts that only clear up after compounding many transmissions. Some prior works pose imaging as an inverse problem. This approach can yield high image quality with few…

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Reconstructing gamma-ray spectra from detector measurements is an ill-posed inverse problem. Standard methods, such as Folding Iteration with Compton Subtraction (FICS), provide point estimates but lack calibrated uncertainties and may bias…

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The popular VQ-VAE models reconstruct images through learning a discrete codebook but suffer from a significant issue in the rapid quality degradation of image reconstruction as the compression rate rises. One major reason is that a higher…

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Recent advances in the LLM-as-Extractor paradigm leverage large language models (LLMs) to transfer semantically rich item embeddings into sequential recommendation (SR) backbones. However, LLM-generated embeddings often suffer from strong…

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The OFDM waveform exhibits high fluctuation in the signal envelope which causes distortion in the nonlinear power amplifier of the transmitter. Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) and Cubic Metric (CM) are the common metrics to quantify the…

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This paper, for the first time, presents a low-complexity peak-power-assisted data-aided channel estimation (DACE) scheme for both single-input single-output (SISO) and multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division…

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Accurate channel state information (CSI) is required for coherent detection in time-variant multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) communication systems using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. One of low-complexity…

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Active Constellation Extension (ACE) is one of techniques introduced for Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction for OFDM systems. In this technique, the constellation points are extended such that the PAPR is minimized but the minimum…

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