Baojian Ren;Tao Cao;Zhengyang Zhang;Shuchen Bai;Na Liu
{"title":"Hierarchical Signal Calibration and Refinement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis","authors":"Baojian Ren;Tao Cao;Zhengyang Zhang;Shuchen Bai;Na Liu","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3603884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3603884","url":null,"abstract":"To address the issues of noise amplification and feature incompatibility arising from modal heterogeneity in multimodal sentiment analysis, this paper proposes a hierarchical optimization framework. In the first stage, we introduce the Semantic-Guided Calibration Network (SGC-Net), which, through a Dynamic Balancing Regulator (DBR), leverages textual semantics to intelligently weight and calibrate the cross-modal interactions of audio and video, thereby suppressing noise while preserving key dynamics. In the second stage, the Synergistic Refinement Fusion Module (SRF-Module) performs a deep refinement of the fused multi-source features. This module employs a Saliency-Gated Complementor (SGC) to rigorously filter and exchange effective information across streams, ultimately achieving feature de-redundancy and strong complementarity. Extensive experiments on the CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI datasets validate the effectiveness of our method, with the model achieving state-of-the-art performance on key metrics such as binary accuracy (Acc-2: 86.73% on MOSI, 86.52% on MOSEI) and seven-class accuracy (Acc-7: 48.35% on MOSI, 53.81% on MOSEI).","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3450-3454"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nengxiang Zhang;Baojiang Zhong;Minghao Piao;Kai-Kuang Ma
{"title":"BAN: A Boundary-Aware Network for Accurate Colorectal Polyp Segmentation","authors":"Nengxiang Zhang;Baojiang Zhong;Minghao Piao;Kai-Kuang Ma","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3603828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3603828","url":null,"abstract":"Colonoscopy images exhibit multi-frequency features, with polyp boundaries residing in a mid-frequency range, which are critical for accurate polyp segmentation. However, current deep learning models tend to prioritize low-frequency features, leading to reduced segmentation performance. To address this challenge, we propose a novel <italic>boundary-aware network</i> (BAN) that integrates trainable Gabor filters into the polyp segmentation process through a dedicated module called <italic>Gabor-driven feature extraction</i> (GFE). By developing and using a <italic>trajectory-directed frequency learning</i> approach, Gabor filters are trained along a <italic>damping sinusoidal</i> path, dynamically optimizing their frequency parameters within a proper mid-frequency range. This enhances boundary feature representation and significantly improves polyp segmentation accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our BAN outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3460-3464"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiao Wei;Bo Jiang;Yuye Ling;Peiyao Jin;Xinbing Wang
{"title":"Unsupervised Domain Adaptation With Anatomical-Aware Self-Training for Optic Disc Segmentation in Abnormal Fundus Images","authors":"Xiao Wei;Bo Jiang;Yuye Ling;Peiyao Jin;Xinbing Wang","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3602653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3602653","url":null,"abstract":"Optic disc (OD) segmentation in abnormal fundus images is crucial for glaucoma screening, and different screening populations may alter the types and proportions of abnormalities. Since annotating all abnormal types or re-annotating for each screening scenario is costly, an alternative is to utilize existing annotated data. However, these datasets only contain limited abnormal types, leading to a domain shift issue. Unsupervised domain adaptation alleviates this issue through adversarial learning or self-training. Yet, adversarial learning methods tend to overemphasize brightness as a discriminative feature, which fails under pathological changes, while self-training approaches remain vulnerable to noisy pseudo-labels. Existing denoising methods assume noise lies near decision boundaries, but abnormalities can produce noise far from them. In this letter, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation method integrating anatomical-aware self-training with adversarial learning for OD segmentation. By exploiting the OD’s convex shape and boundary consistency, we develop two pseudo-labeling strategies to suppress noise. Experiments on four fundus image datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in diverse screening scenarios.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3475-3479"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenhao Jiang;Weixiang Zhong;Pattathal V. Arun;Pei Xiang;Dong Zhao
{"title":"SRTE-Net: Spectral-Spatial Similarity Reduction and Reorganized Texture Encoding for Hyperspectral Video Tracking","authors":"Wenhao Jiang;Weixiang Zhong;Pattathal V. Arun;Pei Xiang;Dong Zhao","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3602380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3602380","url":null,"abstract":"Hyperspectral video tracking poses unique challenges due to the high dimensionality of spectral data and the limited capacity to capture discriminative texture information. To address this, we propose a novel tracking framework that integrates spectral-spatial similarity reduction with reorganized texture encoding for robust hyperspectral target tracking. Specifically, we introduce a dimensionality compression strategy that converts the multi-band hyperspectral input into a representative grayscale image, preserving key spectral-spatial cues. To enhance discriminative texture modeling, a 3D Gabor filter is applied to the search region, and the extracted responses are adaptively fused based on their local variance. The resulting texture representations are selectively masked to suppress background noise and are then passed into a correlation filter module for precise target localization. Furthermore, we design a template update mechanism that mitigates model drift and cumulative errors during tracking. Extensive experiments on public hyperspectral video benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance against state-of-the-art hyperspectral trackers, especially in scenarios with background clutter.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3390-3394"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinforcing Localization Credibility Through Convex Optimization","authors":"Slavisa Tomic;Marko Beko;Yakubu Tsado;Bamidele Adebisi;Abiola Oladipo","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3601835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3601835","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes a novel approach to reinforce localization security in wireless networks in the presence of malicious nodes that are able to manipulate (spoof) radio measurements. It substitutes the original measurement model by another one containing an auxiliary variance dilation parameter that disguises corrupted radio links into ones with large noise variances. This allows for relaxing the non-convex maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) into a semidefinite programming (SDP) problem by applying convex-concave programming (CCP) procedure. The proposed SDP solution simultaneously outputs target location and attacker detection estimates, eliminating the need for further application of sophisticated detectors. Numerical results corroborate excellent performance of the proposed method in terms of localization accuracy and show that its detection rates are highly competitive with the state of the art.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3445-3449"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11134586","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matrix-Based Signal Reconstruction and Narrowband Interference Suppression in DSSS Systems","authors":"Yuan Liu;Zhenguo Liu;Xuanang Mao;Chuxin Tang","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3601850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3601850","url":null,"abstract":"Spectrum congestion and malicious interference exacerbate narrowband interference (NBI) in wideband direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) systems. To address this, we propose a matrix-based signal reconstruction and NBI suppression method using the MBSBL-FM algorithm. By exploiting row and column correlations and block structure information, the proposed approach enhances signal recovery and NBI recognition. We establish a relationship between hyperparameters and signal power, introducing an objective suppression criterion. Additionally, we analyze NBI tolerance to improve practical applicability. Simulations confirm its effectiveness in reconstructing signals, reducing sampling rate requirements, and maintaining robust performance under NBI. The proposed principle can also be extended to other types of spread spectrum (SS) systems.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3400-3404"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrally Sharpened Two Channel Graph Filter Bank and Its Polyphase Structure","authors":"David B. Tay","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3601560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3601560","url":null,"abstract":"Graph filter banks allow for the spectral analysis of signals defined over graph domains. We consider the construction of two channel biorthogonal filter banks with outputs that are critically sampled. A method that sharpens the frequency response of an existing filter bank will be presented. The method is based on the use of sharpening kernels, and an analytical technique for constructing the kernels will be developed. Polyphase analysis of the sharpened filters will be performed, and the relationship between the original and sharpened polyphase structures will be derived. The polyphase structure allows the filter bank to be implemented efficiently using lifting steps. We will show that the number of lifting steps of the sharpened structure is unchanged, compared to the original structure. Application to nonlinear approximation of images will also be considered.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3470-3474"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiaqi Nie;Ben Yang;Zhiyuan Xue;Xuetao Zhang;Fei Wang
{"title":"Correntropy-Induced Hypergraph Spectral Clustering With Discrete Optimization","authors":"Jiaqi Nie;Ben Yang;Zhiyuan Xue;Xuetao Zhang;Fei Wang","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3601523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3601523","url":null,"abstract":"Hypergraph clustering has garnered considerable attention in complex learning tasks due to its powerful capacity for modeling high-order relationships among samples. Nevertheless, existing methods encounter two fundamental challenges: 1) The need for an additional discretization step following low-dimensional spectral embedding, which introduces a suboptimal mismatch between continuous embeddings and discrete cluster assignments, thereby impairing clustering performance; and 2) the susceptibility to diverse and complex noise are commonly present in real-world scenarios, which significantly compromises clustering robustness. To address these issues, we propose a novel correntropy-induced hypergraph spectral clustering (CIHSC) model. Different from current spectral clustering methods, CIHSC integrates a correntropy-based framework to enable direct discrete spectral decomposition on hypergraphs, eliminating the need for post discretization and thereby enhancing clustering fidelity and robustness. To effectively address the non-convex optimization arising from the correntropy-induced objective, we develop a half-quadratic optimization strategy tailored to the CIHSC model. Extensive experiments conducted on both real-world and noise-contaminated datasets demonstrate that CIHSC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods in terms of performance and robustness.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3280-3284"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144909103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prompt-Based Cross-Modal Feature Alignment for Weakly Supervised IFER","authors":"Hanqin Shi;Xiaofeng Kang;Jiaxiang Wang;Aihua Zheng;Wenjuan Cheng","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3601513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3601513","url":null,"abstract":"Infrared Facial Expression Recognition (IFER) encounters challenges in data acquisition and annotation under low-light conditions, making fully supervised training difficult. Although pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can enhance generalization for downstream tasks, their insufficient attention modeling in cross-domain scenarios leads to ineffective local semantic correlation. To address this, we propose a Prompt-based Cross-modal feature Alignment (PCA) method that improves weakly supervised IFER performance by leveraging RGB facial expression data. The PCA framework comprises two key components: (1) a Cross-modal Prompt Transfer (CPT) strategy that integrates category-specific information to distinguish expressions, and (2) an Image-Guided Alignment (IGA) module that achieves feature alignment using dual-domain feature banks. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art approaches, confirming its effectiveness and superiority.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3410-3414"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Cooperative Relative Localization for Urban Vehicles Based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication","authors":"Qijie Li;Zhi Xiong;Chenfa Shi;Tianxv Wu;Jun Xiong","doi":"10.1109/LSP.2025.3601515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3601515","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate vehicle localization is crucial for urban vehicles. We propose a hybrid Gaussian variational message passing (HGVMP) scheme for cooperative relative localization. First, we propose a Gaussian variational message passing (GVMP) framework for state estimation of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) observations from multiple vehicles, which puts the messages in GVMP in closed Gaussian form to ensure the stability and efficiency of estimation. In addition, we integrate GVMP with inertial navigation system (INS) via the extended kalman filter (EKF), which makes full use of the inertial information of INS to improve the system’s localization accuracy and stability in dynamic and complex environments. Our experimental results show that in simulated GNSS signal blocked urban environment, the proposed HGVMP achieves a 32.19% improvement in localization accuracy compared to the cooperative localization extended kalman filter (CL-EKF), and the computational efficiency improves by 93.78% over the nonparametric belief propagation (NBP) method.","PeriodicalId":13154,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Signal Processing Letters","volume":"32 ","pages":"3380-3384"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}