Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110503
Zhibo Tang, Heyue Huang, Xingpeng Mao
{"title":"A low complexity method for large scale clutter suppression in passive radar","authors":"Zhibo Tang, Heyue Huang, Xingpeng Mao","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In passive radar systems, the utilized signals are typically not designed for radar purposes, resulting in high ambiguity floors. These ambiguity floors, compounded by strong direct-path and multipath clutter, often obscure weak targets. To enhance the signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR), clutter suppression algorithms are essential. The Extensive Cancellation Algorithm (ECA) and its variants are widely used for this purpose by projecting received signals onto the subspace orthogonal to clutter. However, ECA suffers from high computational cost as clutter space dimensionality increases. Segmented versions like ECA-Batches (ECA-B) and Generalized Subband Cancellation (GSC) reduce complexity by broadening the suppression notch in one domain on the range-Doppler (RD) map, but remain limited when addressing large-area clutter. In this paper, we propose ECA-Batches and Subbands (ECA-BS), which performs segmentation in both time and frequency domains. This dual-domain strategy simultaneously broadens the suppression notch in both delay and Doppler dimensions, significantly reducing the clutter space. Simulation experiments verify that ECA-BS achieves clutter suppression performance comparable to existing segmented methods while significantly reducing computational complexity. Its effectiveness is further confirmed by real-world data experiments, demonstrating strong practical applicability in large scale and complex clutter environments. These results make ECA-BS particularly well-suited for real-time passive radar applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 110503"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081761","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-26DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110515
Yonghong Xiang, Le Yin, Yi Rong, Wenjing Xie
{"title":"A regularized regression approach to robust state estimation of nonlinear systems with state constraints","authors":"Yonghong Xiang, Le Yin, Yi Rong, Wenjing Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110515","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110515","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces a regularized regression framework for robust state estimation of nonlinear systems. The nonlinear process and measurement functions are first approximated via statistical linearization, after which a Kalman-type estimator is derived through linear regression. The proposed framework generalizes several nonlinear Kalman filters and incorporates robust regularization to explicitly mitigate outlier effects. In particular, sparsity-promoting ℓ<sub>1</sub>-norm regularization enables joint estimation of outliers and state variables, thereby reducing the influence of error propagation across correlated components introduced by linearization. Furthermore, an ADMM-based algorithm is developed to naturally incorporate state constraints within the estimation framework. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior estimation accuracy compared to existing techniques.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 110515"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081760","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110518
Shouharda Ghosh, Tarun Meena, Nithin V. George
{"title":"Low-rank enhanced Hammerstein-spline adaptive filter for sparsity-aware nonlinear feedback cancellation in hearing aids","authors":"Shouharda Ghosh, Tarun Meena, Nithin V. George","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110518","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110518","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Adaptive feedback cancellation (AFC) remains a significant challenge in digital hearing aids due to the correlation between the microphone input and loudspeaker output, leading to biased feedback path estimates. Additionally, loudspeaker-induced non-linearities, such as saturation, further degrade sound quality. This paper proposes an Enhanced Hammerstein-Spline Adaptive Filter (EHSAF) that improves upon the conventional Hammerstein-spline model by modifying the update rule to address convergence issues in sparse feedback paths. The integration of EHSAF within the AFC framework effectively mitigates non-linear distortions, ensuring improved stability and faster convergence. Further performance gains are achieved by incorporating the nearest Kronecker product (NKP) framework, which leverages the low-rank structure of the hearing aid impulse response. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed EHSAF-based nonlinear AFC (NAFC) and NKP-enhanced EHSAF NAFC algorithms outperform state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and computational efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 110518"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081759","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110504
Chen Li , Shuliang Wang , Yunzhe Men , Guoliang Chen
{"title":"Composite anti-disturbance asynchronous control for 2-D semi-Markov jump systems with multiple disturbances: From a mode generation perspective","authors":"Chen Li , Shuliang Wang , Yunzhe Men , Guoliang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110504","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110504","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><strong>Abstract</strong> Two-dimensional (2-D) systems have been extensively investigated due to their effectiveness in modeling practical industrial processes. However, the presence of random mode switching and multiple disturbances may degrade the system performance or even induce instability. Driven by these challenges, this study focuses on a composite anti-disturbance asynchronous control strategy for 2-D semi-Markov jump Roesser systems subject to multiple disturbances. By fully considering the structural features of the Roesser model, a novel global mode generation mechanism is developed to address the issue of mode ambiguity. To counteract the detrimental influence of multiple disturbances, a 2-D disturbance observer is designed to compensate for matched disturbances arising from an exogenous system, while an energy-to-peak control scheme is employed to attenuate mismatched external disturbances. Since exact mode information is often unavailable in practical systems, a hidden Markov model is employed to handle the asynchrony in the controller-system channel. Sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee that the system is almost surely exponentially stable. Finally, the feasibility of the designed control methodology is validated through two simulation examples.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 110504"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146081801","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110512
Shanli Chen , Dongyuan Lin , Peng Cai , Yunfei Zheng , Lei Zhang , Shiyuan Wang
{"title":"ARKFNet: A neural network-enhanced anomaly-robust Kalman filter","authors":"Shanli Chen , Dongyuan Lin , Peng Cai , Yunfei Zheng , Lei Zhang , Shiyuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate estimation of latent states from noisy measurements remains a fundamental challenge in signal processing. Neural network-enhanced (NNE) Kalman filters, which integrate neural networks within traditional Kalman filtering frameworks, have emerged as a promising paradigm. However, in the presence of anomalous measurements, existing NNE Kalman filters often suffer from performance degradation. While certain approaches can alleviate this issue by adaptively adjusting the weights of anomalous measurements during the filtering process through end-to-end training, they are typically limited to specific types of anomalies, and their overall effectiveness remains constrained. To overcome these limitations, we propose an anomaly-robust NNE Kalman filter, called ARKFNet, that demonstrates superior performance across different kinds of anomaly scenarios. By integrating two dedicated neural network modules into the extended Kalman filter framework, ARKFNet replaces traditional anomaly-sensitive computations with a data-driven approach, establishing a unified framework for handling diverse anomaly types. To ensure stable training and numerical robustness, ARKFNet employs an alternating optimization strategy and enforces positive-definite constraints on its neural modules’ outputs through eigenvalue decomposition. Simulations demonstrate ARKFNet’s superior capability in addressing a range of anomalies, including false data injection attacks, sensor outliers, data mismatches, and missing data, outperforming existing NNE Kalman filters regarding estimation accuracy and robustness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 110512"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146049015","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110481
Yanbin Zou , Xiaofei Li , Shiru Chen , Yihan Wang , Yimao Sun
{"title":"A noise-decoupled WLS solution for hybrid AOA-TDOA localization in the presence of sensor position errors","authors":"Yanbin Zou , Xiaofei Li , Shiru Chen , Yihan Wang , Yimao Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper addresses the problem of hybrid angle-of-arrival (AOA) and time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) localization in the presence of sensor position errors. Existing weighted least-squares (WLS) estimators for this scenario often exhibit suboptimal performance because the linearization of TDOA measurements introduces a detrimental cross-coupling between AOA and TDOA noise. To overcome this limitation, a novel WLS estimator is proposed that fundamentally decouples these heterogeneous noise sources through a new linearization procedure for the TDOA equations that is independent of AOA measurements. The proposed estimator is formulated as a WLS problem with a single quadratic constraint, which admits an efficient algebraic solution. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms existing WLS methods, with its estimation accuracy closely approaching the Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 110481"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927502","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110483
Lin Chen , Lin Gao , Yuxuan Xia , Chaoqun Yang , Zijie Shang , Zhicheng Su , Ting Yuan , Ping Wei
{"title":"Possibility PMBM filter for robust multi-target tracking","authors":"Lin Chen , Lin Gao , Yuxuan Xia , Chaoqun Yang , Zijie Shang , Zhicheng Su , Ting Yuan , Ping Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110483","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110483","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper considers the multi-target tracking (MTT) problem under epistemic uncertainty, and such a goal is achieved by integrating possibility theory into the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filtering framework. To do so, we first define the possibility PMBM, and then we derive the possibility PMBM filtering recursions. The resulting possibility PMBM filter preserves strong theoretical foundations of PMBM while enhancing robustness to model mismatches. In addition, we present the possibility Poisson multi-Bernoulli (PMB) filter, which is a computationally efficient approximation of the possibility PMBM filter. We also present analytical implementations of the proposed possibility PMBM and possibility PMB filters based on Gaussian mixture representation and their robustness and estimation accuracy have been demonstrated in the simulation studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 110483"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927508","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110463
Meng-Qi Wang, Xiao-Heng Chang
{"title":"Non-fragile H∞ control of uncertain bilinear systems with signal quantization","authors":"Meng-Qi Wang, Xiao-Heng Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110463","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110463","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the problem of non-fragile <em>H</em><sub>∞</sub> control for uncertain bilinear systems with the quantized control input. The research focus lies in designing the controller by fully considering the influence of various uncertainties in the actual system on the system performance, as well as the situation where the system input is quantized, to ensure that the closed-loop control system to have the specified <em>H</em><sub>∞</sub> performance index. By introducing the Lyapnov function and applying the Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) method, the complex system stability conditions are transformed into easily solvable LMI problems, and the design conditions of the <em>H</em><sub>∞</sub> controller to ensure the stability of the continuous-time bilinear system with uncertain are derived. It can be clear seen from the simulation experiments that the designed <em>H</em><sub>∞</sub> controller can effectively deal with the system uncertainties and signal quantization problems, verifying the effectiveness of the design method proposed in this paper.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 110463"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927506","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110485
Mingcheng Fu , Zhi Zheng , Ping Li , Wen-Qin Wang
{"title":"2-D DOA and polarization estimation using cylindrical coprime conformal array via cross-covariance tensor reconstruction","authors":"Mingcheng Fu , Zhi Zheng , Ping Li , Wen-Qin Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110485","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2025.110485","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, we develop an efficient approach for two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) and polarization estimation using the cylindrical coprime conformal array. Firstly, we derive the tensor-form coarray output of the cylindrical coprime conformal array and apply virtual array interpolation on the coarray output components. Subsequently, we construct a fourth-order cross-covariance tensor using the interpolated array outputs and recover a low-rank fourth-order augmented tensor by formulating a nuclear norm minimization problem. Using the reconstructed augmented tensor, we estimate the elevation and azimuth angles of sources separately through one-dimensional searching. With the estimated 2-D DOAs, we finally derive the closed-form expressions for the polarization parameter estimates. Compared with the previous techniques, the proposed algorithm can identify more sources and provide offer higher parameter estimation accuracy. Simulation results demonstrate the advantage of our algorithm over several existing techniques.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 110485"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145978341","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}
Signal ProcessingPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110493
Haixin Jia , Han Wang , Yu Zhang , Guoying Zhang , Zhengfan Li , Hengchen Xu
{"title":"MWNet: Image dehazing network based on multi-scale feature extraction and wavelet feature enhancement","authors":"Haixin Jia , Han Wang , Yu Zhang , Guoying Zhang , Zhengfan Li , Hengchen Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110493","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sigpro.2026.110493","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Atmospheric haze degrades image quality, impairing downstream vision tasks like object detection and segmentation. While wavelet-based deep learning methods are effective by leveraging lossless downsampling and spectral discrepancies, they often suffer from limited multi-scale feature extraction, inadequate frequency-domain enhancement, and a lack of structural priors. To overcome these issues, we propose MWNet, a novel framework integrating structural constraints into a U-Net with wavelet transforms. Our approach introduces dense multi-scale blocks for robust feature extraction, a hierarchical attention mechanism for high-frequency detail enhancement, and a cross-enhancement module for frequency feature interaction. Extensive experiments conducted on four benchmark datasets (SOTS-Indoor, Haze4K, Dense-Haze, NH-Haze) have demonstrated consistent superiority, with MWNet achieving SOTA in quantitative results compared to existing advanced methods (Surpassing the second-best method with average improvements of 0.16 dB in PSNR and 0.0026 in SSIM.), while qualitative results demonstrate enhanced detail preservation and noise suppression. In addition, we conducted generalization tests on three other datasets (RTTS, REAL-NH, CM-Haze), fully verifying the good generalization performance of MWNet.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49523,"journal":{"name":"Signal Processing","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 110493"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145978340","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}