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Target localization is a critical task in various applications, such as search and rescue, surveillance, and wireless sensor networks. When a target emits a radio frequency (RF) signal, spatially distributed sensors can collect signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Halim Lee , Jongmin Park , Kwansik Park

This paper introduces a unified framework for the detection of a source with a sensor array in the context where the noise variance and the channel between the source and the sensors are unknown at the receiver. The Generalized Maximum…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-16 Pascal Bianchi , Merouane Debbah , Mylène Maïda , Jamal Najim

We consider the problem of collaborative distributed estimation in a large scale sensor network with statistically dependent sensor observations. In collaborative setup, the aim is to maximize the overall estimation performance by modeling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Shan Zhang , Pranay Sharma , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

There has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms to extract clusters or communities from networks. This work proposes a method, based on blockmodelling, for leveraging communities and other topological features for use in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Leto Peel

We investigate crowdsourcing algorithms for finding the top-quality item within a large collection of objects with unknown intrinsic quality values. This is an important problem with many relevant applications, for example in networked…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Emilio Leonardi , Marco Ajmone Marsan

Sensor visibility is crucial for safety-critical applications in automotive, robotics, smart infrastructure and others: In addition to object detection and occupancy mapping, visibility describes where a sensor can potentially measure or is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Joachim Börger , Marc Patrick Zapf , Marat Kopytjuk , Xinrun Li 2 , Claudius Gläser

Score-P is a measurement infrastructure originally designed for the analysis and optimization of the performance of HPC codes. Recent extensions of Score-P and its associated tools now also allow the investigation of energy-related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Kai Diethelm

This paper presents a method for determining the area explored by a line-sweep sensor during an area-covering mission in a two-dimensional plane. Accurate knowledge of the explored area is crucial for various applications in robotics, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Maria Costa Vianna , Eric Goubault , Luc Jaulin , Sylvie Putot

Many WSN protocols require the location coordinates of the sensor nodes, as it is useful to consider the data collected by the sensors in the context of the location from which they were collected. Thus, one of the major challenges in WSNs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Ashanie Gunathillake

The most frequently employed measure for performance characterisation of local feature detectors is repeatability, but it has been observed that this does not necessarily mirror actual performance. Presented are improved repeatability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Shoaib Ehsan , Nadia Kanwal , Adrian F. Clark , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Many complex multi-target prediction problems that concern large target spaces are characterised by a need for efficient prediction strategies that avoid the computation of predictions for all targets explicitly. Examples of such problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Michiel Stock , Krzysztof Dembczynski , Bernard De Baets , Willem Waegeman

Feature importance scores are ubiquitous tools for understanding the predictions of machine learning models. However, many popular attribution methods suffer from high instability due to random sampling. Leveraging novel ideas from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Jeremy Goldwasser , Giles Hooker

Test Case Prioritization (TCP) techniques aim at proposing new test case execution orders to favor the achievement of certain testing goal, such as fault detection. Current TCP research focus mainly on code-based regression testing; however…

This paper studies a coordinate alignment problem for cooperative mobile sensor network localization with range-based measurements. The network consists of target nodes, each of which has only access position information in a local fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Keyou You , Qizhu Chen , Pei Xie , Shiji Song

The performance of an adaptive tracking-by-detection algorithm not only depends on the classification and updating processes but also on the sampling. Typically, such trackers select their samples from the vicinity of the last predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Kourosh Meshgi , Maryam Sadat Mirzaei , Shigeyuki Oba

Recently, there has been an explosion in statistical learning literature to represent data using topological principles to capture structure and relationships. We propose a topological data analysis (TDA)-based framework, named Topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Jordan Eckert , Elvan Ceyhan , Henry Schenck

Sensor configuration, including the sensor selections and their installation locations, serves a crucial role in autonomous driving. A well-designed sensor configuration significantly improves the performance upper bound of the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Tao Ma , Zhizheng Liu , Yikang Li

We consider a registration-based approach for localizing sensor networks from range measurements. This is based on the assumption that one can find overlapping cliques spanning the network. That is, for each sensor, one can identify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Rajat Sanyal , Monika Jaiswal , Kunal Narayan Chaudhury

One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is efficient localization. There are various techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This study evaluating and compares performance of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Obaid ur Rehman , Nadeem Javaid , Ayesha Bibi , Zahoor Ali Khan

Consider the continuous distributed monitoring model in which $n$ distributed nodes, receiving individual data streams, are connected to a designated server. The server is asked to continuously monitor a function defined over the values…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide