{"title":"On Stability of Linear Estimators in Poisson Noise","authors":"Alex Dytso, H. Poor","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048782","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers estimation of a random variable in Poisson noise. Specifically, the main focus is to assess optimality and near optimality conditions for linear estimators.In the first part of the paper, it is shown that linear estimators are optimal if and only if the underlying prior is a gamma distribution and the dark current parameter is zero.In the second part of the paper, a stability analysis of linear estimators is undertaken. Specifically, it is shown that if an optimal estimator is close to a linear estimator in an Lp,p ≥1 distance, then the underlying prior distribution is approximately gamma in the Lévy metric and the Kolmogorov metric.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"80 1","pages":"670-674"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73441370","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":"Simple Iterative Algorithms for Approximate And Bounded Parameter Orthonormality","authors":"S. Douglas, Yu Hong","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9049063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9049063","url":null,"abstract":"Orthonormality constraints, in which parameter sets are constrained to be perpendicular to each other and of unit length, are important for many estimation, detection, and classification tasks. Such constraints are not appropriate in all practical scenarios, however. In this paper, we describe simple adaptive algorithms that adjust a matrix so that its rows are close to orthonormality after adaptation, as specified by user-selectable bounds on pairwise inner products and squared vector lengths. The algorithms have rapid convergence. Applications to independent component analysis and deep learning system training show the benefits of the approach.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"13 1","pages":"2101-2105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74767748","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}
A. Ziabari, Derek C. Rose, Matthew R. Eicholtz, D. Solecki, A. Shirinifard
{"title":"A 2.5d Yolo-Based Fusion Algorithm for 3d Localization Of Cells","authors":"A. Ziabari, Derek C. Rose, Matthew R. Eicholtz, D. Solecki, A. Shirinifard","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048710","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in microscopy techniques such as lattice-light-sheet, confocal, two-photon, and electron microscopy have enabled the visualization of 3D image volumes of tightly packed cells, extracellular structures in tissues, organelles, and subcellular components inside cells. These images sampled by 2D projections are often not accurately interpreted even by human experts. As a use case we focus on 3D image volumes of tightly packed nuclei in brain tissue. Due to out-of-plane excitation and low resolution in the z-axis, non-overlapping cells appear as overlapping 3D volumes and make detecting individual cells challenging. On the other hand, running 3D detection algorithms is computationally expensive and infeasible for large datasets. In addition, most existing 3D algorithms are designed to extract 3D objects by identifying the depth in the 2D images. In this work, we propose a YOLO-based 2.5D fusion algorithm for 3D localization of individual cells in densely packed volumes of nuclei. The proposed method fuses 2D detection of nuclei in sagittal, coronal, and axial planes and predicts six coordinates of the 3D bounding cubes around the detected 3D cells. Promising results were obtained on multiple examples of synthetic dense volumes of nuclei imitating confocal microscopy experimental datasets.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"37 1","pages":"2185-2190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74178709","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":"Optimal replay-based channel simulation via dithering methods","authors":"Sijung Yang, A. Singer","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9049034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9049034","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate replay-based channel simulation methods that reuse data collected from expensive field experiments through the use of dither within the standard communication pipeline. While traditional playback simulations rely on accurate channel models and their estimates, the method proposed here reduces the effect of channel estimation errors and unmodeled effects by exploiting similarities between different input signals. A notion of optimality of the proposed scheme will be discussed from the perspective of a related estimation problem. Finally, the proposed scheme is tested both numerically and experimentally with field data collected from MACE 10 experiments.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"3 1","pages":"957-963"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74123129","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}
Konstantinos Tountas, George Sklivanitis, D. Pados, M. Medley
{"title":"Tensor Data Conformity Evaluation for Interference-Resistant Localization","authors":"Konstantinos Tountas, George Sklivanitis, D. Pados, M. Medley","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048697","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the problem of robust, interference-resistant localization in GPS-denied environments. Each asset to be self-localized is equipped with an antenna array and leverages time-domain coded beacon signals from anchor nodes that are placed at known locations. Collected data snapshots over time at the antenna array are organized in a tensor data structure. The conformity of the received tensor data is evaluated through iterative projections on robust, high-confidence data feature characterizations that are returned by L1-norm tensor subspaces. Non-conforming tensor slabs are more likely to be contaminated by irregular, highly deviating measurements due to interference, thus they are removed from the received dataset. Subsequently, we estimate the direction-of-arrival of the beacon signals by using L2-norm and L1-norm tensor decomposition techniques on the conformity-adjusted dataset. Finally, the relative position of the asset to the anchor nodes is estimated via triangulation. We consider two anchor nodes, one interferer, and one asset to be self-localized using radio frequency signals at the 2.4 GHz ISM band in an indoor laboratory environment. We evaluate the performance of the proposed localization system in terms of angle-of-arrival estimation accuracy experimental measurements from a software-defined radio testbed.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"16 1","pages":"1582-1586"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74469578","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}
Yasaman Ettefagh, Sven Jacobsson, Anzhong Hu, G. Durisi, Christoph Studer
{"title":"All-Digital Massive MIMO Uplink and Downlink Rates under a Fronthaul Constraint","authors":"Yasaman Ettefagh, Sven Jacobsson, Anzhong Hu, G. Durisi, Christoph Studer","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048859","url":null,"abstract":"We characterize the rate achievable in a bidirectional quasi-static link where several user equipments communicate with a massive multiple-input multiple-output base station (BS). In the considered setup, the BS operates in full-digital mode, the physical size of the antenna array is limited, and there exists a rate constraint on the fronthaul interface connecting the (possibly remote) radio head to the digital baseband processing unit. Our analysis enables us to determine the optimal resolution of the analog-to- digital and digital-to-analog converters as well as the optimal number of active antenna elements to be used in order to maximize the transmission rate on the bidirectional link, for a given constraint on the outage probability and on the fronthaul rate. We investigate both the case in which perfect channel-state information is available, and the case in which channel-state information is acquired through pilot transmission, and is, hence, imperfect. For the second case, we present a novel rate expression that relies on the generalized mutual-information framework.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"40 1","pages":"416-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74557334","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}
Tian Li, Anit Kumar Sahu, M. Zaheer, Maziar Sanjabi, Ameet Talwalkar, Virginia Smith
{"title":"FedDANE: A Federated Newton-Type Method","authors":"Tian Li, Anit Kumar Sahu, M. Zaheer, Maziar Sanjabi, Ameet Talwalkar, Virginia Smith","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9049023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9049023","url":null,"abstract":"Federated learning aims to jointly learn statistical models over massively distributed remote devices. In this work, we propose FedDANE, an optimization method that we adapt from DANE [8], [9], a method for classical distributed optimization, to handle the practical constraints of federated learning. We provide convergence guarantees for this method when learning over both convex and non-convex functions. Despite encouraging theoretical results, we find that the method has underwhelming performance empirically. In particular, through empirical simulations on both synthetic and real-world datasets, FedDANE consistently underperforms baselines of FedAvg [7] and FedProx [4] in realistic federated settings. We identify low device participation and statistical device heterogeneity as two underlying causes of this underwhelming performance, and conclude by suggesting several directions of future work.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"25 1","pages":"1227-1231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77423778","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":"Practically Constrained Waveform Design for MIMO Radar in the Presence of Multiple Targets","authors":"Xianxiang Yu, Khaled Alhujaili, G. Cui, V. Monga","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048984","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the joint design of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar transmit waveform and receive filter to enhance multiple targets detectability in the presence of signal-dependent (clutter) and independent disturbance. The worst-case Signal-to-Interference-Noise-Ratio (SINR) over multiple targets is explicitly maximized. To ensure hardware compatibility and the coexistence between MIMO radar and other wireless systems, constant modulus and spectral restrictions on the waveform are incorporated in our design. A max-min non-convex optimization problem emerges as a function of the transmit waveform, which we solve via a novel polynomial-time iterative procedure that involves solving a sequence of convex problems with constraints that evolve with every iteration. We provide analytical guarantees of monotonic cost function improvement with proof of convergence to a solution that satisfies the KarushKuhnTucker (KKT) conditions. By simulating challenging practical scenarios, we evaluate the proposed algorithm against the state-of-the-art methods in terms of the achieved SINR value and the computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"53 1","pages":"1539-1544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77125341","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}
Stefan Zelenbaba, M. Hofer, David Löschenbrand, Georg Kail, Martin Schiefer, T. Zemen
{"title":"Spatial Properties of Industrial Wireless Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication MIMO Links","authors":"Stefan Zelenbaba, M. Hofer, David Löschenbrand, Georg Kail, Martin Schiefer, T. Zemen","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048729","url":null,"abstract":"We show the results of a measurement campaign done in an industrial hall, and analyse a frequency-selective 2 × 2 multiple-input multiple-output channel. The transmitter is kept static while the receiver moves across a positioning board between line-of-sight and obstructed line-of-sight. We compare capacities, delay spreads and fading patterns of different antenna settings. We observe that higher outage capacity is achieved when using co-polarized rather than cross-polarized dipoles. The settings with higher capacity rates also show lower root-mean-square delay spread values, due to the presence of a strong line-of-sight component. We observe how polarization and antenna alignment influence the fading patterns.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"240 1","pages":"1054-1058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76749920","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 Hybrid Sensing and Reinforcement Learning Scheduler for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications","authors":"T. Şahin, Mate Boban, R. Khalili, A. Wolisz","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF44664.2019.9048691","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications performance depends significantly on the approach taken to schedule the radio resources. When the infrastructure is available, so far the best performing V2V scheduling algorithms are based on centralized approach. In case there is no infrastructure, sensing the resources in a distributed manner to determine whether a specific resource is free performs well. We propose a hybrid solution, where a centralized reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm provides a candidate subset of resources, whereas a distributed sensing mechanism, running on each vehicle, makes the final resource selection. We evaluate the performance of the proposed approach in an out-of-coverage setting and show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in highly dynamic scenarios by using the best of both worlds: RL agent provides optimized long-term resource allocations, while the distributed sensing handles temporary and unforeseen network conditions that can not be predicted effectively.","PeriodicalId":6684,"journal":{"name":"2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers","volume":"72 1","pages":"1136-1143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81224549","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}