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We present novel solutions to the problem of direct localization of multiple narrow-band and arbitrarily correlated sources by partly calibrated arrays, i.e., arrays composed of fully calibrated sub-arrays yet lacking inter-array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-27 Amir Adler , Mati Wax

Realizing relative localization by leveraging inter-robot local measurements is a challenging problem, especially in the presence of measurement noise. Motivated by this challenge, in this paper we propose a novel and systematic 3-D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Chenyang Liang , Liangming Chen , Baoyi Cui , Jie Mei

Sound source localization (SSL) is a critical technology for determining the position of sound sources in complex environments. However, existing methods face challenges such as high computational costs and precise calibration requirements,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiyuan Yang , Shitong Xu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

The physical position is crucial in location-aware services or protocols based on geographic information, where localization is performed given a set of sensor measurements for acquiring the position of an object with respect to a certain…

Applications · Statistics 2022-04-14 Wu Junfeng , Mu Biqiang , Yi Xinlei , Wei Jieqiang , Johansson Karl Henrik

A simple inverse problem for the wave equation requires determination of both the wave velocity in a homogenous acoustic material and the transient waveform of an isotropic point radiator, given the time history of the wavefield at a remote…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 William W. Symes

For three decades, carrier-phase observations have been used to obtain the most accurate location estimates using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). These estimates are computed by minimizing a nonlinear mixed-integer least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Ophir Uziel , Efi Fogel , Dan Halperin , Sivan Toledo

Locating sources of diffusion and spreading from minimum data is a significant problem in network science with great applied values to the society. However, a general theoretical framework dealing with optimal source localization is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Zhao-Long Hu , Xiao Han , Ying-Cheng Lai , Wen-Xu Wang

In this paper we consider the problem of localizing a set of broadband sources from a finite window of measurements. In the case of narrowband sources this can be reduced to the problem of spectral line estimation, where our goal is simply…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Coleman DeLude , Rakshith Sharma , Santhosh Karnik , Christopher Hood , Mark Davenport , Justin Romberg

Accurate source localization in Multi-Platform Radar Networks (MPRNs) benefits from exploiting both range and angle measurements under robust estimation. In this paper, we propose a robust Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) optimization model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Mingyu Zhao , Qingna Li , Hou-Duo Qi

Replacing the quadratic proximal penalty familiar from Hilbert spaces by an unbalanced optimal transport distance, we develop forward-backward type optimisation methods in spaces of Radon measures. We avoid the actual computation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Tuomo Valkonen

In practical least squares realization problems, partial information about the pole locations of the dynamical model may be known a priori. Existing techniques for incorporating this prior knowledge, such as prefiltering the given data, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Christof Vermeersch , Sibren Lagauw , Bart De Moor

The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi

This paper provides a new regularization method which is particularly suitable for linear exponentially ill-posed problems. Under logarithmic source conditions (which have a natural interpretation in terms of Sobolev spaces in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Walter Cedric Simo Tao Lee

The approximation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of an elliptic operator is a key computational task in many areas of applied mathematics and computational physics. An important case, especially in quantum physics, is the computation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Douglas Arnold , Guy David , Marcel Filoche , David Jerison , Svitlana Mayboroda

Source localization is widely used in many areas including GPS, but the influence of possible noises is not so negligible. Many optimization methods are attempted to alleviate different kinds of noises. Needless to say the stability of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Kiwoon Kwon

This paper proposes two efficient and easy-to-use error mitigation solutions to the problem of three-dimensional (3-D) angle-of-arrival (AOA) source localization in the mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) indoor…

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

Point source localisation is generally modelled as a Lasso-type problem on measures. However, optimisation methods in non-Hilbert spaces, such as the space of Radon measures, are much less developed than in Hilbert spaces. Most numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Tuomo Valkonen

In this paper we study the problem of driving an agent to an unknown source whose location is estimated in real-time by a recursive optimization algorithm. The optimization criterion is subject to a least-square cost function constructed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we develop a numerical multiscale method to solve elliptic boundary value problems with heterogeneous diffusion coefficients and with singular source terms. When the diffusion coefficient is heterogeneous, this adds to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Donald L. Brown , Joscha Gedicke