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This paper addresses the challenges of optimally placing a finite number of sensors to detect Poisson-distributed targets in a bounded domain. We seek to rigorously account for uncertainty in the target arrival model throughout the problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mingyu Kim , Harun Yetkin , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez , Saurav Shrestha , Nina Stark

Reliable anomaly detection in distributed power plant monitoring systems is essential for ensuring operational continuity and reducing maintenance costs, particularly in regions where telecom operators heavily rely on diesel generators.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Corneille Niyonkuru , Marcellin Atemkeng , Gabin Maxime Nguegnang , Arnaud Nguembang Fadja

Sensor placement optimization methods have been studied extensively. They can be applied to a wide range of applications, including surveillance of known environments, optimal locations for 5G towers, and placement of missile defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Lukas Taus , Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

3D Gaussian Splatting is a powerful visual representation, providing high-quality and efficient 3D scene reconstruction, but it is crucially dependent on accurate camera poses typically obtained from computationally intensive processes like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daniel Yang , Jungseok Hong , John J. Leonard , Yogesh Girdhar

We propose a method to optimally position a sensor system, which consists of multiple sensors, each has limited range and viewing angle, and they may fail with a certain failure rate. The goal is to find the optimal locations as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Seong Jun Kim , Sung Ha Kang , Haomin Zhou

Calibrating simulation models that take large quantities of multi-dimensional data as input is a hard simulation optimization problem. Existing adaptive sampling strategies offer a methodological solution. However, they may not sufficiently…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-17 Pranav Jain , Sara Shashaani , Eunshin Byon

When navigating and interacting in challenging environments where sensory information is imperfect and incomplete, robots must make decisions that account for these shortcomings. We propose a novel method for quantifying and representing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Onur Bagoren , Marc Micatka , Katherine A. Skinner , Aaron Marburg

This report considers the class of applications of sensor networks in which each sensor node makes measurements, such as temperature or humidity, at the precise location of the node. Such spot-sensing applications approximate the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-26 Xiaoyu Chu , Harish Sethu

In-situ ocean wave observations are critical to improve model skill and validate remote sensing wave measurements. Historically, such observations are extremely sparse due to the large costs and complexity of traditional wave buoys and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Pieter B. Smit , Isabel A. Houghton , Kalina Jordanova , Thomas Portwood , Evan Shapiro , David Clark , Michael Sosa , Tim T. Janssen

Flow-field reconstruction from sparse sensor measurements remains a central challenge in modern fluid dynamics, as the need for high-fidelity data often conflicts with practical limits on sensor deployment. Existing deep learning-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ruoyan Li , Guancheng Wan , Zijie Huang , Zixiao Liu , Haixin Wang , Xiao Luo , Wei Wang , Yizhou Sun

Robust parameter estimation is a crucial task in several 3D computer vision pipelines such as Structure from Motion (SfM). State-of-the-art algorithms for robust estimation, however, still suffer from difficulties in converging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Huu Le , Christopher Zach

Recently, multidimensional signal reconstruction using a low number of measurements is of great interest. Therefore, an effective sampling scheme which should acquire the most information of signal using a low number of measurements is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Seyed Hamid Safavi , Farah Torkamani-Azar

Deep learning has been used to image compressive sensing (CS) for enhanced reconstruction performance. However, most existing deep learning methods train different models for different subsampling ratios, which brings additional hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Zhonghao Zhang , Yipeng Liu , Xingyu Cao , Fei Wen , Ce Zhu

Despite the frequent use of agent-based models (ABMs) for studying social phenomena, parameter estimation remains a challenge, often relying on costly simulation-based heuristics. This work uses variational inference to estimate the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jacopo Lenti , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales

Both higher efficiency and cost reduction can be gained from automating bathymetric surveying for offshore applications such as pipeline, telecommunication or power cables installation and inspection on the seabed. We present a SLAM system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Ignacio Torrobam Nils Bore , John Folkesson

Compressive sensing(CS) has drawn much attention in recent years due to its low sampling rate as well as high recovery accuracy. As an important procedure, reconstructing a sparse signal from few measurement data has been intensively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Yicong He , Fei Wang , Shiyuan Wang , Badong Chen

Optimal sensor and actuator selection is a central challenge in high-dimensional estimation and control. Nearly all subsequent control decisions are affected by these sensor/actuator locations, and optimal placement amounts to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Krithika Manohar , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

We consider a network of agents that locate themselves in an environment through sensor measurements and aim to transmit a message signal to a base station via collaborative beamforming. The agents' sensor measurements result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Erfaun Noorani , Yagiz Savas , Alec Koppel , John Baras , Ufuk Topcu , Brian M. Sadler

In this paper, the sparse sensor placement problem for least-squares estimation is considered, and the previous novel approach of the sparse sensor selection algorithm is extended. The maximization of the determinant of the matrix which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Yuji Saito , Taku Nonomura , Keigo Yamada , Kumi Nakai , Takayuki Nagata , Keisuke Asai , Yasuo Sasaki , Daisuke Tsubakino

This paper considers the problem of optimally deploying omnidirectional sensors, with potentially limited sensing radius, in a network-like environment. This model provides a compact and effective description of complex environments as well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Luca Greco , Matteo Gaeta , Benedetto Piccoli