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In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Location awareness is now becoming a vital requirement for many practical applications. In this paper, we consider passive localization of multiple targets with one transmitter and several receivers based on time of arrival (TOA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Nan Wu , Weijie Yuan , Hua Wang , Jingming Kuang

This paper introduces a new Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of passive microwave rainfall retrieval. The proposed methodology relies on a regularization technique and makes use of two joint dictionaries of coincidental rainfall…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-07 Ardeshir Mohammad Ebtehaj , Rafael Luis Bras , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Machine learning is a promising technique for angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation of waves impinging a sensor array. However, the majority of the methods proposed so far only consider a known, fixed number of impinging waves, i.e., a fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Noud Kanters , Andrés Alayón Glazunov

In this work, we consider the problem of localizing multiple signal sources based on time-difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. In the blind setting, in which the source signals are not known, the localization task is challenging due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Gabrielle Flood , Filip Elvander

Accurately localizing multiple sources is a critical task with various applications in wireless communications, such as emergency services, including natural post-disaster search and rescue operations. However, scenarios where the receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Amir Mansourian , Alireza Fadakar , Saeed Akhavan , Behrouz Maham

Sound event localization aims at estimating the positions of sound sources in the environment with respect to an acoustic receiver (e.g. a microphone array). Recent advances in this domain most prominently focused on utilizing deep…

The problem of source localization with ad hoc microphone networks in noisy and reverberant enclosures, given a training set of prerecorded measurements, is addressed in this paper. The training set is assumed to consist of a limited number…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Ronen Talmon , Sharon Gannot

Localization is an important required task for enabling vehicle autonomy for underwater vehicles. Localization entails the determination of position of the center of mass and orientation of a vehicle from the available measurements. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Sai Krishna Kanth Hari , Kaarthik Sundar , Jose Braga , Joao Teixeira , Joao Sousa , Swaroop Darbha

Optical fibers have long been employed as sensors in a wide range of commercial systems. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) extends this concept by enabling the detection and localization of acoustic sources along the fiber, using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Knut H. Grythe , Jan Erik Håkegård

Underwater sensor networks are anticipated to facilitate numerous commercial and military applications. Moreover, precise self-localization in practical underwater scenario is a crucial challenge in sensor networks because of the complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Maliha Tasnim , Rashed Hasan Ratul

Source separation is one of the signal processing's main emerging domain. Many techniques such as maximum likelihood (ML), Infomax, cumulant matching, estimating function, etc. have been used to address this difficult problem.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Radio source localization can benefit many fields, including wireless communications, radar, radio astronomy, wireless sensor networks, positioning systems, and surveillance systems. However, accurately estimating the position of a radio…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Asanka Perera , Vu Phi Tran , Sreenatha Anavatti , Kathryn Kasmarik , Matthew Garratt

We consider the problem of estimating a variable number of parameters with a dynamic nature. A familiar example is finding the position of moving targets using sensor array observations. The problem is challenging in cases where either the…

Computation · Statistics 2015-04-03 Ashkan Panahi , Mats Viberg

Passive monitoring of acoustic or radio sources has important applications in modern convenience, public safety, and surveillance. A key task in passive monitoring is multiobject tracking (MOT). This paper presents a Bayesian method for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Wenyu Zhang , Florian Meyer

We address the problem of localizing non-collaborative WiFi devices in a large region. Our main motive is to localize humans by localizing their WiFi devices, e.g. during search-and-rescue operations after a natural disaster. We use an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Mattia Carpin , Stefano Rosati , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Bixio Rimoldi

The problem of mixed signals occurs in many different contexts; one of the most familiar being acoustics. The forward problem in acoustics consists of finding the sound pressure levels at various detectors resulting from sound signals…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin H. Knuth

In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments, terrestrial signals of opportunity (SoOP) offer an alternative for positioning, but synchronization impairments such as clock offsets, drift, and multipath limit performance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Mustafa Furkan Beker , Abdullah Tan , Khaled Walid Elgammal , Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir

In this paper, we propose a radio-based passive target tracking algorithm using multipath measurements, including the angle of arrival and relative distance. We focus on a scenario in which a mobile receiver continuously receives radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Ke Xu , Rui Zhang , He , Chen

In this letter, we investigate the fundamental limits of localization in fluid antenna systems (FAS) utilizing a Fisher-information-theoretic framework. We develop a unified model to quantify the localization information extractable from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang