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The millimeter wave (mmWave) band will provide multi-gigabits-per-second connectivity in the radio access of future wireless systems. The high propagation loss in this portion of the spectrum calls for the deployment of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Compared with image method (IM) based ray tracing (RT), shooting and bouncing ray (SBR) method is characterized by fast speed but low accuracy. In this paper, an iterative precise algorithm based on equiangular division is proposed to make…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Yuyang Zhou , Yinghua Wang , Yuxiao Li , Jialing Huang , Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang

In this work, we present RadCloud, a novel real time framework for directly obtaining higher-resolution lidar-like 2D point clouds from low-resolution radar frames on resource-constrained platforms commonly used in unmanned aerial and…

This paper presents a point cloud based robotic system for arc welding. Using hand gesture controls, the system scans partial point cloud views of workpiece and reconstructs them into a complete 3D model by a linear iterative closest point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Peng Zhou , Rui Peng , Maggie Xu , Victor Wu , David Navarro-Alarcon

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

We propose a compute shader based point cloud rasterizer with up to 10 times higher performance than classic point-based rendering with the GL_POINT primitive. In addition to that, our rasterizer offers 5 byte depth-buffer precision with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Markus Schütz , Michael Wimmer

Radio wave propagation simulations based on the ray-optical approximation have been widely adopted in coverage analysis for a range of situations, including the outdoor-to-indoor scenario. This work presents O2I ray-tracing simulations…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Pasi Koivumäki , Aki Karttunen , Katsuyuki Haneda

Capturing real-world 3D spaces as point clouds is efficient and descriptive, but it comes with sensor errors and lacks object parametrization. These limitations render point clouds unsuitable for various real-world applications, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Krzysztof Zieliński , Bruce Blumberg , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

In this paper we propose a highly efficient and very accurate deep learning method for estimating the propagation pathloss from a point $x$ (transmitter location) to any point $y$ on a planar domain. For applications such as user-cell site…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Ron Levie , Çağkan Yapar , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Accurate and efficient modeling of indoor wireless signal propagation is crucial for the deployment of next-generation Wi-Fi. This paper presents a digital twin-based measurement system that integrates real-world 3D environment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mengyuan Wang , Haopeng Wang , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

The fast motion of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites causes the propagation channel to vary rapidly, and its behavior is strongly shaped by the surrounding environment, especially at low elevation angles where signals are highly susceptible…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jingyi Tian , Lin Cai

Recently, Differentiable Ray Tracing has been successfully applied in the field of wireless communications for learning radio materials or optimizing the transmitter orientation. However, in the frame of gradient based optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Jerome Eertmans , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

To meet the growing data traffic demand in future wireless systems, novel transmission architectures capable of adapting to complex propagation environments are required. Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Xiaoyi Zhang , Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

Wireless communications rely on path loss modeling, which is most effective when it includes the physical details of the propagation environment. Acquiring this data has historically been challenging, but geographic information systems data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jonathan Ethier , Mathieu Chateauvert , Ryan G. Dempsey , Alexis Bose

While ray tracing has become increasingly common and path tracing is well understood by now, a major challenge lies in crafting an easy-to-use and efficient system implementing these technologies. Following a purely physically-based…

Wireless indoor localization has been a pivotal area of research over the last two decades, becoming a cornerstone for numerous sensing applications. However, conventional wireless localization methods rely on channel state information to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Xueqiang Han , Tianyue Zheng , Tony Xiao Han , Jun Luo

Recent research has shown the effectiveness of mmWave radar sensing for object detection in low visibility environments, which makes it an ideal technique in autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, we introduce Radar to Point Cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yue Sun , Honggang Zhang , Zhuoming Huang , Benyuan Liu

Differentiable ray tracing has recently challenged the status quo in radio propagation modelling and digital twinning. Promising unprecedented speed and the ability to learn from real-world data, it offers a real alternative to conventional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Stefanos Bakirtzis , Paul Almasan , José Suárez-Varela , Gabriel O. Ferreira , Michail Kalntis , André Felipe Zanella , Ian Wassell , Andra Lutu