Jens Steinwandt, Christian Steffens, M. Pesavento, M. Haardt
{"title":"Sparsity-aware direction finding for strictly non-circular sources based on rank minimization","authors":"Jens Steinwandt, Christian Steffens, M. Pesavento, M. Haardt","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569715","url":null,"abstract":"Exploiting the statistical properties of strictly non-circular (NC) signals in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation has long been an active area of research due to its associated performance improvements. Recently, this concept has been introduced to DOA estimation via sparse signal recovery (SSR), where similar benefits from processing NC signals are achieved. However, the standard approach to NC SSR requires solving a two-dimensional (2-D) SSR problem in the spatial and the phase rotation domain, which is not only associated with a high computational complexity itself but also with a 2-D off-grid problem. In this paper, we propose an entirely new NC SSR approach based on nuclear norm (rank) minimization after lifting the original bilinear optimization problem to a linear optimization problem in a higher-dimensional space. Thereby, the SSR-based 2-D estimation problem is reduced to a 1-D estimation problem only in the sampled spatial domain, which automatically provides gridless estimates of the rotation phases. In our second contribution, we present a simple closed-form grid offset estimator for a single NC source and a numerical joint grid offset estimation procedure for two closely-spaced NC sources assuming a uniform linear array (ULA). Simulations validate the effectiveness of the new approach.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"XXXIX 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131199781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Gil-Pita, Héctor A. Sánchez-Hevia, C. Llerena, Inma Mohino-Herranz, M. Utrilla-Manso, M. Rosa-Zurera
{"title":"Distributed and collaborative sound environment information extraction in binaural hearing aids","authors":"R. Gil-Pita, Héctor A. Sánchez-Hevia, C. Llerena, Inma Mohino-Herranz, M. Utrilla-Manso, M. Rosa-Zurera","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569708","url":null,"abstract":"Current research in the field of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASN) is gradually introducing the use of sound spatial techniques in the field of binaural hearing aids, in which sound environment information must be extracted in order to tune up the main hearing aid algorithms. In binaural hearing aids, computational capability, memory and data transmission are strictly constrained, which makes the use of distributed and collaborative approaches suitable. This paper proposes solutions for the collaborative and distributed sound environment information extraction through the estimation of the different noise levels, analyzing both the performance and the computational and transmission requirements. Results demonstrate that the proposed distributed solutions highly reduce the transmission rate and the computational cost, while maintaining the accuracy in the estimations.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134575696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of comb and pulse train signal designs for active sonar","authors":"Jonathan Soli, G. Hickman","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569636","url":null,"abstract":"Doppler-sensitive waveforms are often used in shallow water to mitigate high reverberation levels. This paper compares three Doppler sensitive sonar waveforms including coherently-processed pulse trains, uniform frequency combs, and nonuniform co-prime frequency combs in terms of their delay-Doppler responses. It is shown that the use of comb waveforms can reduce Doppler sidelobes without trading Doppler resolution, unlike windowing. The pulse train and uniform comb are evaluated in terms of their ambiguity functions, while the co-prime comb was processed using a technique that exploits the co-prime structure to reduce the number of tones necessary to achieve a delay-Doppler response similar to that of a uniform comb. The cost of using a co-prime comb rather than a uniform comb is increased bandwidth extent. Brief discussion of the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of these signals is also included.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"9 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114097114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum BER precoding in 1-Bit massive MIMO systems","authors":"H. Jedda, J. Nossek, A. Mezghani","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569655","url":null,"abstract":"1-bit digital-to-analog (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are gaining more interest in massive MIMO systems for economical and computational efficiency. We present a new precoding technique to mitigate the inter-user-interference (IUI) and the channel distortions in a 1-bit downlink MU-MISO system with QPSK symbols. The transmit signal vector is optimized taking into account the 1-bit quantization. We develop a sort of mapping based on a look-up table (LUT) between the input signal and the transmit signal. The LUT is updated for each channel realization. Simulation results show a significant gain in terms of the uncoded bit-error-ratio (BER) compared to the existing linear precoding techniques.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"39 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127385511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-microphone speech enhancement informed by auditory scene analysis","authors":"A. Plinge, S. Gannot","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569625","url":null,"abstract":"A multitude of multi-microphone speech enhancement methods is available. In this paper, we focus our attention to the well-known minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer, due to its ability to preserve distortionless response towards the desired speaker while minimizing the output noise power. We explore two alternatives for constructing the steering vectors towards the desired speech source. One is only using the direct path of the speech propagation in the form of delay-only filters, while the other is using the entire room impulse response (RIR). All beamforming methods requires some control information to be able to accomplish the task of enhancing a desired speech signal. In this paper, an acoustic event detection method using biologically-inspired features is employed. It can interpret the auditory scene by detecting the presence of different auditory objects. This is employed to control the estimation procedures used by beamformer. The resulting system provides a blind method of speech enhancement that can improve intelligibility independently of any additional information. Experiments with real recordings show the practical applicability of the method. Significant gain in fwSNRseg is achieved. Compared to using the direct path only, the use of the entire RIR proves beneficial.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115694636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-complexity robust radar-embedded Sidelobe Level modulation using linear constrained optimization design","authors":"Aline de Oliveira, R. Neto, J. Fortes","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569664","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a low-complexity robust radar-embedded Sidelobe Level (SLL) modulation for a communication system as a secondary task for the radar. The robust radar-embedded SLL modulation aims the generation of transmit beampatterns, that satisfactorily match a given transmit profile (with high fidelity adjustment at the mainlobe), where each beampattern embeds a different SLL towards the communication receiver direction and sustains its amplitude over a small angular region. We achieve these goals by modifying the robust SLL optimization problem enunciated in [1], in order to handle differently the mainlobe adjustment requirement. The proposed formulation is based on eigenvector, point and first derivative constraints. We derive its closed form solution and we simplify it through mathematical manipulation and eigenspectrum analysis. These procedures make the proposed solution suitable for online real-time processing. We also derive simple equations for updating the beampatterns for following a moving communication receiver platform.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130733669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced block term decomposition for atrial activity extraction in atrial fibrillation ECG","authors":"Lucas N. Ribeiro, A. D. Almeida, V. Zarzoso","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569709","url":null,"abstract":"Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent sustained cardiac arrhythmia but is still considered a challenging research subject since its electrophysiological mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Analyzing the atrial activity (AA) signal observed in surface electrocardiograms (ECG) is useful for clinical management and better understanding the propagation mechanisms inside the atria, but ventricular activity (VA) masks the AA in time and frequency domains. Signal processing techniques have been used to extract the AA signal. Blind Source Separation (BSS) methods can accomplish this task from multi-lead ECG. Recently, a deterministic tensor-based BSS method based on the Block Term Decomposition (BTD) was proposed and offered promising results in AA estimation. This method assumes that AF ECG leads can be expressed as linear combinations of damped exponential sources. However, QRST complexes of VA do not match this model, causing numerical issues. The present contribution proposes a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) preprocessing stage to attenuate the ventricular components. Experimental results show that this stage alleviates the ECG model mismatch, resulting in better AA estimation compared to competing methods and improved numerical properties compared to BTD without preprocessing.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122595837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel algorithm for adapting the number of particles in particle filtering","authors":"V. Elvira, J. Míguez, P. Djurić","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569688","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel approach for assessing the convergence of particle filters in online manner. Particle filters sequentially approximate distributions of hidden states of state-space models. The approximations are random measures composed of weighted particles (i.e., samples of the state). A sufficiently large number of particles provides a good quality in the approximation but at the expense of increasing the computational load. We propose to adapt the number of particles in real time based on the convergence assessment of the particle filter. The proposed methodology is based on a model-independent theoretical analysis that is valid under mild assumptions. We present an algorithm that allows the practitioner to operate at a desirable operation point defined by a performance-complexity tradeoff. The algorithm has a small extra cost, and it shows good performance in our numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"39 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126272721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ganapati Hegde, Yang Yang, Christian Steffens, M. Pesavento
{"title":"Parallel low-complexity M-PSK detector for large-scale MIMO systems","authors":"Ganapati Hegde, Yang Yang, Christian Steffens, M. Pesavento","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569705","url":null,"abstract":"MIMO systems have become a de-facto standard in modern wireless communication, and with the upcoming of large-scale MIMO systems, efficient symbol detection techniques become more significant than ever. In this paper, we propose a new symbol detection technique for M-PSK modulated symbols. In order to implement the proposed technique efficiently, we develop an iterative, low-complexity algorithm. Each iteration of the developed algorithm comprises of independent subproblems, which can be solved independently and concurrently on a parallel-computing platform, making it ideal for advanced wireless systems. Our complexity analysis reveals that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm scales well with the number of transmit/receive antennas of the MIMO systems, and it is independent of constellation size. Simulation results show that the bit error rate (BER) of the proposed detection method is lower than those of conventional suboptimal detectors, and the BER decays faster as the size of the MIMO system increases.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121587050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sliding-window homotopy adaptive filter for estimation of sparse UWA channels","authors":"Y. Zakharov, Jianghui Li","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2016.7569608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2016.7569608","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a sparse recursive least squares (RLS) adaptive filter is investigated in application to channel estimation in underwater acoustic (UWA) channels. The adaptive filter is based on sliding-window, homotopy, and dichotomous coordinate descent iterations. It is used in a multi-antenna receiver of an UWA communication system with guard-free orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals and superimposed pilot symbols. More specifically, it is used for channel estimation in the channel-estimate-based equalizer. We compare the sliding-window homotopy RLS adaptive filter with the exponential-window homotopy and classic RLS algorithms. The results show that the proposed algorithm provides an improved performance compared to the other adaptive filters. The comparison is based on signals recorded on a 14-element vertical antenna array in sea trials at a distance of 105 km transmitted by a fast moving transducer. In these conditions, error-free transmission is achieved with a spectral efficiency of 0.33 bit/s/Hz.","PeriodicalId":159236,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132685349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}