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Traditional radar and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems often approximate targets as point sources, a simplification that fails to capture the essential scattering characteristics for many applications. This paper presents…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Baptiste Sambon , François De Saint Moulin , Guillaume Thiran , Claude Oestges , Luc Vandendorpe

We propose passive channel charting, an extension of channel charting to passive target localization. As in conventional channel charting, we follow a dimensionality reduction approach to reconstruct a physically interpretable map of target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Florian Euchner , David Kellner , Phillip Stephan , Stephan ten Brink

We propose a method for tracking an unknown number of targets based on measurements provided by multiple sensors. Our method achieves low computational complexity and excellent scalability by running belief propagation on a suitably devised…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Florian Meyer , Paolo Braca , Peter Willett , Franz Hlawatsch

In this paper, we propose a direct multiobject tracking (MOT) approach for MIMO-radar signals that operates on raw sensor data via variational message passing (VMP). Unlike classical track-before-detect (TBD) methods, which often rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

Passive multi-target tracking (MTT) aims to infer the kinematic states of multiple targets from noisy sensor data in which contributions from unknown target-emitted signals are superposed. Track-before-detect (TBD) methods improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Nobutaka Ito , Yoshiaki Bando

Achieving precise synchronisation between transmitters and receivers is particularly challenging in diffusive molecular communication environments. To this end, point-to-point molecular communication system design is examined wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Urbashi Mitra

This work is devoted to the problem of distributed target tracking when a team of robots detect the target through a variable perception-latency mechanism. A reference for the robots to track is constructed in terms of a desired formation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés

Methodologies for incorporating the uncertainties characteristic of data-driven object detectors into object tracking algorithms are explored. Object tracking methods rely on measurement error models, typically in the form of measurement…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Anish Muthali , Forrest Laine , Claire Tomlin

We propose a Bayesian framework for the received-signal-strength-based cooperative localization problem with unknown path loss exponent. Our purpose is to infer the marginal posterior of each unknown parameter: the position or the path loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Di Jin , Feng Yin , Carsten Fritsche , Fredrik Gustafsson , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Fingerprint-based passive localization enables high localization accuracy using low-cost UWB IoT radio sensors. However, fingerprinting demands extensive effort for data acquisition. The concept of channel charting reduces this effort by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Raffael Poeggel , Maximilian Stahlke , Jonas Pirkl , Jonathan Ott , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Christopher Mutschler

Autonomous vehicles often perceive the environment by feeding sensor data to a learned detector algorithm, then feeding detections to a multi-object tracker that models object motions over time. Probabilistic models of multi-object trackers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Michael Motro , Joydeep Ghosh

Proper modelling of astronomical receivers is vital: it describes the systematic errors in the raw data, guides the receiver design process, and assists data calibration. In this paper we describe a method of analytically modelling the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 O. G. King , Michael E. Jones , C. Copley , R. J. Davis , J. P. Leahy , J. Leech , S. J. C. Muchovej , T. J. Pearson , Angela C. Taylor

We present the design of a radio antenna system for obtaining instantaneous bearing measurements towards a radio emitter. Our work is motivated by applications where robots are used for localizing and tracking radio-tagged wildlife. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 William E. Gerhard , Pratap Tokekar

Collaborative signal processing and sensor deployment have been among the most important research tasks in target tracking using networked sensors. In this paper, the mathematical model is formulated for single target tracking using mobile…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Jiangping Hu , Xiaoming Hu

In conventional approaches for multiobject tracking (MOT), raw sensor data undergoes several preprocessing stages to reduce data rate and computational complexity. This typically includes coherent processing that aims at maximizing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Enabling passive sensing of the environment using cellular base stations (BSs) will be one of the disruptive features of the sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, accurate localization and positioning of objects are challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Maximiliano Rivera Figueroa , Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi , Marina Petrova

We propose a distributed positioning algorithm to estimate the unknown positions of a number of target nodes, given distance measurements between target nodes and between target nodes and a number of reference nodes at known positions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Luba Tetruashvili , Erik G. Ström , Yair Censor

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

We propose a metric called the bistatic radar detection coverage probability to evaluate the detection performance of a bistatic radar under discrete clutter conditions. Such conditions are commonly encountered in indoor and outdoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Shobha Sundar Ram , Gourab Ghatak

Incorporating integrated sensing and communication capabilities into forthcoming 6G wireless networks is crucial for achieving seamless synchronization between the digital and physical worlds. The following paper focuses on a scenario where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Ahmad Bazzi , Marwa Chafii