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We consider the design of identical one-bit probabilistic quantizers for distributed estimation in sensor networks. We assume the parameter-range to be finite and known and use the maximum Cram\'er-Rao Lower Bound (CRB) over the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Swarnendu Kar , Hao Chen , Pramod K. Varshney

The widely used quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a lower bound for the mean square error of unbiased estimators in quantum parameter estimation, however, in general QCRB is only tight in the asymptotical limit. With a limited number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

We consider estimation of a single unknown parameter embedded in a quantum state. Quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) is the ultimate limit of the mean squared error for any unbiased estimator. While it can be achieved asymptotically for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zihao Gong , Boulat A. Bash

This paper studies the transmit waveform optimization for a quantized multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are employed to enable a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Qi Lin , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chunming Zhao

We study a new image sensor that is reminiscent of traditional photographic film. Each pixel in the sensor has a binary response, giving only a one-bit quantized measurement of the local light intensity. To analyze its performance, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Feng Yang , Yue M. Lu , Luciano Sbaiz , Martin Vetterli

We investigate the one-bit MIMO (1b-MIMO) radar that performs one-bit sampling with a time-varying threshold in the temporal domain and employs compressive sensing in the spatial and Doppler domains. The goals are to significantly reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Feng Xi , Yijian Xiang , Shengyao Chen , Arye Nehorai

There have been a number of studies on sparse signal recovery from one-bit quantized measurements. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the choice of the quantization thresholds and its impact on the signal recovery performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Jun Fang , Yanning Shen , Hongbin Li

The estimation of multiple parameters in quantum metrology is important for a vast array of applications in quantum information processing. However, the unattainability of fundamental precision bounds for incompatible observables has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jasminder S. Sidhu , Yingkai Ouyang , Earl T. Campbell , Pieter Kok

The theoretical foundation of quantum sensing is rooted in the Cram\'er-Rao formalism, which establishes quantitative precision bounds for a given quantum probe. In many practical scenarios, where more than one parameter is unknown, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 George Mihailescu , Saubhik Sarkar , Abolfazl Bayat , Steve Campbell , Andrew K. Mitchell

Efficient estimation of wideband spectrum is of great importance for applications such as cognitive radio. Recently, sub-Nyquist sampling schemes based on compressed sensing have been proposed to greatly reduce the sampling rate. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Haoyu Fu , Yuejie Chi

Performance bounds for parameter estimation play a crucial role in statistical signal processing theory and applications. Two widely recognized bounds are the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) in the non-Bayesian framework, and the Bayesian CRB…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Ori Aharon , Joseph Tabrikian

The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) is a crucial tool in signal processing for assessing the fundamental limitations of any estimation problem as well as benchmarking within a Bayesian frameworks. However, the BCRB cannot be computed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Hai Victor Habi , Hagit Messer , Yoram Bresler

To relax power consumption requirements in multigigabit/s communications systems low resolution quantization can be used. Information-theoretic results have shown that systems employing 1-bit quantization and oversampling are a viable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Tim Hälsig , Lukas Landau , Gerhard Fettweis

We present a general problem formulation for optimal parameter estimation based on quantized observations, with application to antenna array communication and processing (channel estimation, time-of-arrival (TOA) and direction-of-arrival…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Amine Mezghani , Felix Antreich , Josef A. Nossek

The problem of estimating the parameters of a moving target in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is considered and a new approach for estimating the moving target parameters by making use of the phase information associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Aboulnasr Hassanien , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Alex B. Gershman

This paper develops an asymptotically efficient recursive identification algorithm for autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs under one-bit communications. In particular, the proposed method asymptotically achieves the Cramer-Rao…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Xingrui Liu , Jieming Ke , Mingjie Shao , Yanlong Zhao

We extend the traditional framework for estimating subspace bases that maximize the preserved signal energy to additionally preserve the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) of the biophysical parameters and, ultimately, improve accuracy and precision…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Andrew Mao , Sebastian Flassbeck , Cem Gultekin , Jakob Assländer

This paper focusses on the sparse estimation in the situation where both the the sensing matrix and the measurement vector are corrupted by additive Gaussian noises. The performance bound of sparse estimation is analyzed and discussed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Yujie Tang , Laming Chen , Yuantao Gu

We derive a quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) on the error of estimating a time-changing signal. The QCRB provides a fundamental limit to the performance of general quantum sensors, such as gravitational-wave detectors, force sensors, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-31 Mankei Tsang , Howard M. Wiseman , Carlton M. Caves

Seeking the available precision limit of unknown parameters is a significant task in quantum parameter estimation. One often resorts to the widely utilized quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) based on unbiased estimators to finish this task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao