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AI heralds a step-change in the performance and capability of wireless networks and other critical infrastructures. However, it may also cause irreversible environmental damage due to their high energy consumption. Here, we address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Zhiyong Du , Yansha Deng , Weisi Guo , Arumugam Nallanathan , Qihui Wu

Ray tracing (RT) has recently gained renewed interest in wireless communications, driven by its integration into digital twin (DT) frameworks for site specific channel modeling. Several previous studies have validated RT at the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Faizan Rauf , Srijita Sanyal , Markus Heinrichs , Aydin Sezgin

Deep learning (DL), a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, has shown great promise in various disciplines such as image classification and segmentation, speech recognition, language translation, among others. This remarkable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Wonjun Kim , Yongjun Ahn , Jinhong Kim , Byonghyo Shim

In this work, we first describe a framework for the application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) control to a radar system that operates in a congested spectral setting. We then compare the utility of several RL algorithms through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone , Kelly D. Sherbondy

This paper studies a near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar sensing system, in which the transceivers with massive antennas aim to localize multiple near-field targets in the three-dimensional (3D) space over unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu , Yonina C. Eldar

Integrating efficient connectivity, positioning and sensing functionalities into 5G New Radio (NR) and beyond mobile cellular systems is one timely research paradigm, especially at mm-wave and sub-THz bands. In this article, we address the…

Wireless Technology Recognition (WTR) and localization are essential in modern communication systems, enabling efficient spectrum management, seamless coexistence of diverse technologies, and accurate positioning in dynamic environments. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Mohammad Cheraghinia , Eli De Poorter , Jaron Fontaine , Merouane Debbah , Adnan Shahid

We introduce a framework for predicting wireless channel statistics based on digital twin (DT) and ray tracing. The DT is derived from satellite images and is uncalibrated, as it does not assume precise information on the electromagnetic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Mahmoud Saad Abouamer , Robin J. Williams , Petar Popovski

Autonomous system navigation is a well-researched and evolving field. Recent advancements in improving robot navigation have sparked increased interest among researchers and practitioners, especially in the use of sensing data. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sunday Amatare , Gaurav Singh , Raul Shakya , Aavash Kharel , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Debashri Roy

As the current standardization for the 5G networks nears completion, work towards understanding the potential technologies for the 6G wireless networks is already underway. One of these potential technologies for the 6G networks are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Akshay Jain , Xavier Timoneda , Christos Liaskos , Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

In 6G mobile communications, acquiring accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) becomes increasingly challenging due to the growing antenna array size and bandwidth. To alleviate the CSI feedback burden, the channel knowledge map…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Shengli Liu , Guanding Yu

We introduce inverse transport networks as a learning architecture for inverse rendering problems where, given input image measurements, we seek to infer physical scene parameters such as shape, material, and illumination. During training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Chengqian Che , Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Ioannis Gkioulekas

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

Rendering realistic images with global illumination is a computationally demanding task and often requires dedicated hardware for feasible runtime. Recent research uses Deep Neural Networks to predict indirect lighting on image level, but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Giulio Jiang , Bernhard Kainz

Simulation is an invaluable tool for radio-frequency system designers that enables rapid prototyping of various algorithms for imaging, target detection, classification, and tracking. However, simulating realistic radar scans is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tianshu Huang , John Miller , Akarsh Prabhakara , Tao Jin , Tarana Laroia , Zico Kolter , Anthony Rowe

Real-time characterization of refractivity within the marine atmospheric boundary layer can provide valuable information that can potentially be used to mitigate the effects of atmospheric ducting on radar performance. Many duct…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Hilarie Sit , Christopher J. Earls

The electromagnetic inverse problem has long been a research hotspot. This study aims to reverse radar view angles in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images given a target model. Nonetheless, the scarcity of SAR data, combined with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yanni Wang , Hecheng Jia , Shilei Fu , Huiping Lin , Feng Xu

This paper presents a Multi-Modal Environment-Aware Network (MEAN-RIR), which uses an encoder-decoder framework to predict room impulse response (RIR) based on multi-level environmental information from audio, visual, and textual sources.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Jiajian Chen , Jiakang Chen , Hang Chen , Qing Wang , Yu Gao , Jun Du

Many machine learning models operate on images, but ignore the fact that images are 2D projections formed by 3D geometry interacting with light, in a process called rendering. Enabling ML models to understand image formation might be key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Wenzheng Chen , Jun Gao , Huan Ling , Edward J. Smith , Jaakko Lehtinen , Alec Jacobson , Sanja Fidler

We introduce Differentiable Neural Radiosity, a novel method of representing the solution of the differential rendering equation using a neural network. Inspired by neural radiosity techniques, we minimize the norm of the residual of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Saeed Hadadan , Matthias Zwicker