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The source localization problem, fundamental to applications like GPS, is typically approached as a minimization problem in the presence of various types of noise. Ensuring the uniqueness of solutions in GPS technology is vital for the…
Study of a simple single-trace transmission example shows how an extended source formulation of full-waveform inversion can produce an optimization problem without spurious local minima ("cycle skipping"), hence efficiently solvable via…
This purpose of this paper is to locate a single localized source from three range measurements with multiplicative noises. Although some minimization approaches for additive noise have been found, studies on the existence of solutions are…
Herein, the problem of simultaneous localization of two sources given a modest number of samples is examined. In particular, the strategy does not require knowledge of the target signatures of the sources a priori, nor does it exploit…
We study the network localization problem, i.e., the problem of determining node positions of a wireless sensor network modeled as a unit disk graph. In an arbitrarily deployed network, positions of all nodes of the network may not be…
In this paper, the problem of target localization in the presence of outlying sensors is tackled. This problem is important in practice because in many real-world applications the sensors might report irrelevant data unintentionally or…
The single source localization problem (SSLP) appears in several fields such as signal processing and global positioning systems. The optimization problem of SSLP is nonconvex and difficult to find its globally optima solution. It can be…
We consider the problem of localizing the source using range and range-difference measurements. Both the problems are non-convex and non-smooth and are challenging to solve. In this paper, we develop an iterative algorithm - Source…
In this article we analyze the state-of-the-art in multilateration - the family of localization methods enabled by the range difference observations. These methods are computationally efficient, signal-independent, and flexible with regards…
This paper presents an adaptive numerical framework for solving exterior "sound-soft" scattering problems governed by the Helmholtz equation. By interpreting the Method of Fundamental Solutions through the lens of rational approximation, we…
This paper presents a unified framework for robust three-dimensional (3-D) source localization using a network of sensors equipped with one-dimensional (1-D) linear arrays. While such arrays offer practical advantages in terms of cost and…
We propose hybrid methods for localization in wireless sensor networks fusing noisy range measurements with angular information (extracted from video). Compared with conventional methods that rely on a single sensed variable, this may pave…
We consider the problem of self-localization by a resource-constrained mobile node given perturbed anchor position information and distance estimates from the anchor nodes. We consider normally-distributed noise in anchor position…
We consider the localization problem of multiple wideband sources in a multi-path environment by coherently taking into account the attenuation characteristics and the time delays in the reception of the signal. Our proposed method leaves…
Sensor network localization problem is to determine the position of the sensor nodes in a network given pairwise distance measurements. Such problem can be formulated as a polynomial minimization via the least squares method. This paper…
In electromagnetic source localization problems stemming from linearized Poisson-type equation, the aim is to locate the sources within a domain that produce given measurements on the boundary. In this type of problem, biasing of the…
This work considers the problem of locating a single source from noisy range measurements to a set of nodes in a wireless sensor network. We propose two new techniques that we designate as Source Localization with Nuclear Norm (SLNN) and…
A new algorithm for 3D localization in multiplatform radar networks, comprising one transmitter and multiple receivers, is proposed. To take advantage of the monostatic sensor radiation pattern features, ad-hoc constraints are imposed in…
This paper addresses the problem of sound-source localization from time-delay estimates using arbitrarily-shaped non-coplanar microphone arrays. A novel geometric formulation is proposed, together with a thorough algebraic analysis and a…
This paper is concerned with recovering the solution of a final value problem associated with a parabolic equation involving a non linear source and a non-local term, which to the best of our knowledge has not been studied earlier. It is…