Pub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3525663
Jin Li;Wei Xing Zheng;Long Yang
This paper proposes a blind equalization algorithm for dispersive wireless communication systems that employ high throughput quadrature amplitude modulation signals under both Gaussian and impulsive noise environments. A novel cost function that combines the modulus match error function with the negative Gaussian kernel function is established to efficiently obtain the weight vector associated with the blind equalizer. Some preferable properties of the novel cost function are presented. Intensive studies show that the proposed cost function efficiently reduces the maladjustment caused by the modulus mismatch error and efficiently suppresses the negative influence resulting from large errors. Moreover, an efficient successive approximation method for minimizing the established cost function is proposed for fast searching of the optimal weight vector. Very importantly, it is proved that the proposed successive approximation method possesses superlinear convergence. Finally, extensive simulations are provided to demonstrate that the proposed blind equalizer has better performances than the existing methods under both Gaussian and impulsive noise circumstances in terms of equalization quality and equalization efficiency.
{"title":"Fast Converging Algorithm for Blind Equalization With Gaussian and Impulsive Noises","authors":"Jin Li;Wei Xing Zheng;Long Yang","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3525663","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3525663","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a blind equalization algorithm for dispersive wireless communication systems that employ high throughput quadrature amplitude modulation signals under both Gaussian and impulsive noise environments. A novel cost function that combines the modulus match error function with the negative Gaussian kernel function is established to efficiently obtain the weight vector associated with the blind equalizer. Some preferable properties of the novel cost function are presented. Intensive studies show that the proposed cost function efficiently reduces the maladjustment caused by the modulus mismatch error and efficiently suppresses the negative influence resulting from large errors. Moreover, an efficient successive approximation method for minimizing the established cost function is proposed for fast searching of the optimal weight vector. Very importantly, it is proved that the proposed successive approximation method possesses superlinear convergence. Finally, extensive simulations are provided to demonstrate that the proposed blind equalizer has better performances than the existing methods under both Gaussian and impulsive noise circumstances in terms of equalization quality and equalization efficiency.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"372-385"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142940143","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-07DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3525951
Steven Kay;Kaushallya Adhikari;Bo Tang
We introduce a nonparametric data-driven classifier that harnesses the statistical properties of the data through the cumulant generating function of the training data. Its implementation is straightforward, requiring only a single tuning parameter. Moreover, it ensures global solutions due to inherent convex optimization. The classifier is explainable, where unexpected or poor results can be interpreted and ameliorated. We derive the properties of the classification statistic, offering insightful observations. We apply the classifier to real-world datasets. The simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed classifier in signal classification, even in scenarios with mismatched training and testing datasets. Moreover, the results demonstrate that the CGFC has lower computational complexity compared to neural networks.
{"title":"A Nonparametric Data-Driven Classifier Based on the Cumulant Generating Function","authors":"Steven Kay;Kaushallya Adhikari;Bo Tang","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3525951","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3525951","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a nonparametric data-driven classifier that harnesses the statistical properties of the data through the cumulant generating function of the training data. Its implementation is straightforward, requiring only a single tuning parameter. Moreover, it ensures global solutions due to inherent convex optimization. The classifier is explainable, where unexpected or poor results can be interpreted and ameliorated. We derive the properties of the classification statistic, offering insightful observations. We apply the classifier to real-world datasets. The simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed classifier in signal classification, even in scenarios with mismatched training and testing datasets. Moreover, the results demonstrate that the CGFC has lower computational complexity compared to neural networks.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"519-533"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10830543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936171","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3524568
Xiang-Yu Wang;Xiao-Peng Li;Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos;Hing Cheung So
Tensor completion aims at filling in the missing elements of an incomplete tensor based on its partial observations, which is a popular approach for image inpainting. Most existing methods for visual data recovery can be categorized into traditional optimization-based and neural network-based methods. The former usually adopt a low-rank assumption to handle this ill-posed problem, enjoying good interpretability and generalization. However, as visual data are only approximately low rank, handcrafted low-rank priors may not capture the complex details properly, limiting the recovery performance. For neural network-based methods, despite their impressive performance in image inpainting, sufficient training data are required for parameter learning, and their generalization ability on the unseen data is a concern. In this paper, combining the advantages of these two distinct approaches, we propose a tensor Completion neural Network (CNet) for visual data completion. The CNet is comprised of two parts, namely, the encoder and decoder. The encoder is designed by exploiting the CANDECOMP/PARAFAC decomposition to produce a low-rank embedding of the target tensor, whose mechanism is interpretable. To compensate the drawback of the low-rank constraint, a decoder consisting of several convolutional layers is introduced to refine the low-rank embedding. The CNet only uses the observations of the incomplete tensor to recover its missing entries and thus is free from large training datasets. Extensive experiments in inpainting color images, grayscale video sequences, hyperspectral images, color video sequences, and light field images are conducted to showcase the superiority of CNet over state-of-the-art methods in terms of restoration performance.
{"title":"Tensor Completion Network for Visual Data","authors":"Xiang-Yu Wang;Xiao-Peng Li;Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos;Hing Cheung So","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3524568","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3524568","url":null,"abstract":"Tensor completion aims at filling in the missing elements of an incomplete tensor based on its partial observations, which is a popular approach for image inpainting. Most existing methods for visual data recovery can be categorized into traditional optimization-based and neural network-based methods. The former usually adopt a low-rank assumption to handle this ill-posed problem, enjoying good interpretability and generalization. However, as visual data are only approximately low rank, handcrafted low-rank priors may not capture the complex details properly, limiting the recovery performance. For neural network-based methods, despite their impressive performance in image inpainting, sufficient training data are required for parameter learning, and their generalization ability on the unseen data is a concern. In this paper, combining the advantages of these two distinct approaches, we propose a tensor <bold>C</b>ompletion neural <bold>Net</b>work (CNet) for visual data completion. The CNet is comprised of two parts, namely, the encoder and decoder. The encoder is designed by exploiting the CANDECOMP/PARAFAC decomposition to produce a low-rank embedding of the target tensor, whose mechanism is interpretable. To compensate the drawback of the low-rank constraint, a decoder consisting of several convolutional layers is introduced to refine the low-rank embedding. The CNet only uses the observations of the incomplete tensor to recover its missing entries and thus is free from large training datasets. Extensive experiments in inpainting color images, grayscale video sequences, hyperspectral images, color video sequences, and light field images are conducted to showcase the superiority of CNet over state-of-the-art methods in terms of restoration performance.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"386-400"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911637","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3522300
Shenglin Song;Erliang Zhang
This paper deals with frequency domain parametric identification of ARMAX models when the input is corrupted by white noise. By means of a multivariate ARMA representation, the ARMAX model within the errors-in-variables (EIV) framework is identified by a successive two-stage approach, and all the parameter estimates of the dynamic EIV model are further jointly tuned to achieve minimum variance among unbiased estimators using second-order statistics of input-output data. Sufficient conditions are constructed to obtain the identifiability of the EIV-ARMAX model as well as the multivariate ARMA process. The consistency of the estimator is analyzed, and the uncertainty bound of the estimate is also provided and compared with the Cramér-Rao lower bound. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated via numerical and real examples.
{"title":"Identification of ARMAX Models With Noisy Input: A Parametric Frequency Domain Solution","authors":"Shenglin Song;Erliang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3522300","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3522300","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with frequency domain parametric identification of ARMAX models when the input is corrupted by white noise. By means of a multivariate ARMA representation, the ARMAX model within the errors-in-variables (EIV) framework is identified by a successive two-stage approach, and all the parameter estimates of the dynamic EIV model are further jointly tuned to achieve minimum variance among unbiased estimators using second-order statistics of input-output data. Sufficient conditions are constructed to obtain the identifiability of the EIV-ARMAX model as well as the multivariate ARMA process. The consistency of the estimator is analyzed, and the uncertainty bound of the estimate is also provided and compared with the Cramér-Rao lower bound. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated via numerical and real examples.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"292-304"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142879692","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3520909
Tianyi Jia;Xiaochuan Ke;Hongwei Liu;K. C. Ho;Hongtao Su
The sensor position uncertainties and synchronization offsets can cause substantial performance degradation if the sensors are not properly calibrated. This paper investigates the localization of a constant velocity moving target and the self-calibration of sensors using a sequence of range and azimuth measurements observed at successive instants. A theoretical study by the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) reveals that the sensor positions can only be self-calibrated when there are at least two sensors and synchronization offsets can be handled by joint estimation. A low complexity sequential closed-form solution is proposed to estimate the target position and velocity first, and the coordinates of each sensor and synchronization offset afterward. While less intuitive, the analysis shows that the closed-form solutions for both the target and sensor parameters can reach the CRLB accuracy under small Gaussian noise. We also develop a semidefinite programming (SDP) solution by semidefinite relaxation (SDR) for joint localization and calibration from the Maximum Likelihood formulation, which exhibits higher noise tolerance than the closed-form solution. Simulations validate the analysis and the performance of the proposed methods.
{"title":"Target Localization and Sensor Self-Calibration of Position and Synchronization by Range and Angle Measurements","authors":"Tianyi Jia;Xiaochuan Ke;Hongwei Liu;K. C. Ho;Hongtao Su","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3520909","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3520909","url":null,"abstract":"The sensor position uncertainties and synchronization offsets can cause substantial performance degradation if the sensors are not properly calibrated. This paper investigates the localization of a constant velocity moving target and the self-calibration of sensors using a sequence of range and azimuth measurements observed at successive instants. A theoretical study by the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) reveals that the sensor positions can only be self-calibrated when there are at least two sensors and synchronization offsets can be handled by joint estimation. A low complexity sequential closed-form solution is proposed to estimate the target position and velocity first, and the coordinates of each sensor and synchronization offset afterward. While less intuitive, the analysis shows that the closed-form solutions for both the target and sensor parameters can reach the CRLB accuracy under small Gaussian noise. We also develop a semidefinite programming (SDP) solution by semidefinite relaxation (SDR) for joint localization and calibration from the Maximum Likelihood formulation, which exhibits higher noise tolerance than the closed-form solution. Simulations validate the analysis and the performance of the proposed methods.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"340-355"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142879693","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3521338
Xiongjie Chen;Yunpeng Li
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in incorporating neural networks into particle filters, e.g. differentiable particle filters, to perform joint sequential state estimation and model learning for nonlinear non-Gaussian state-space models in complex environments. Existing differentiable particle filters are mostly constructed with vanilla neural networks that do not allow density estimation. As a result, they are either restricted to a bootstrap particle filtering framework or employ predefined distribution families (e.g. Gaussian distributions), limiting their performance in more complex real-world scenarios. In this paper we present a differentiable particle filtering framework that uses (conditional) normalizing flows to build its dynamic model, proposal distribution, and measurement model. This not only enables valid probability densities but also allows the proposed method to adaptively learn these modules in a flexible way, without being restricted to predefined distribution families. We derive the theoretical properties of the proposed filters and evaluate the proposed normalizing flow-based differentiable particle filters’ performance through a series of numerical experiments.
{"title":"Normalizing Flow-Based Differentiable Particle Filters","authors":"Xiongjie Chen;Yunpeng Li","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3521338","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3521338","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been a surge of interest in incorporating neural networks into particle filters, e.g. differentiable particle filters, to perform joint sequential state estimation and model learning for nonlinear non-Gaussian state-space models in complex environments. Existing differentiable particle filters are mostly constructed with vanilla neural networks that do not allow density estimation. As a result, they are either restricted to a bootstrap particle filtering framework or employ predefined distribution families (e.g. Gaussian distributions), limiting their performance in more complex real-world scenarios. In this paper we present a differentiable particle filtering framework that uses (conditional) normalizing flows to build its dynamic model, proposal distribution, and measurement model. This not only enables valid probability densities but also allows the proposed method to adaptively learn these modules in a flexible way, without being restricted to predefined distribution families. We derive the theoretical properties of the proposed filters and evaluate the proposed normalizing flow-based differentiable particle filters’ performance through a series of numerical experiments.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"493-507"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142879652","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3520551
Jiaxiong Fang;Hua Chen;Wei Liu;Songjie Yang;Chau Yuen;Hing Cheung So
In applications like speaker localization using a microphone array, the collected signals are typically a mixture of far-field (FF) and near-field (NF) sources. To find the positions of both NF and FF sources, a three-dimensional spatial-temporal localization algorithm based on a unified exact propagation geometry is developed in this paper, which avoids approximating the spatial phase difference with the first-order and second-order Taylor expansions applied to FF and NF sources, respectively. Our scheme utilizes cross-correlation to produce virtual observations for establishing a third-order parallel factor data model with the use of spatial and temporal information. The array's steering vectors can be extracted by trilinear decomposition. The amplitude and phase information of the whole array elements is jointly exploited to classify the source types and obtain the location estimates via a least squares method. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is computationally efficient since no spectral searches, high-order statistics calculations or parameter pairing procedures are required. The deterministic Cramér-Rao bound is also derived as a performance benchmark, and numerical results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed method.
{"title":"Three-Dimensional Localization of Mixed Near-Field and Far-Field Sources Based on a Unified Exact Propagation Model","authors":"Jiaxiong Fang;Hua Chen;Wei Liu;Songjie Yang;Chau Yuen;Hing Cheung So","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3520551","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3520551","url":null,"abstract":"In applications like speaker localization using a microphone array, the collected signals are typically a mixture of far-field (FF) and near-field (NF) sources. To find the positions of both NF and FF sources, a three-dimensional spatial-temporal localization algorithm based on a unified exact propagation geometry is developed in this paper, which avoids approximating the spatial phase difference with the first-order and second-order Taylor expansions applied to FF and NF sources, respectively. Our scheme utilizes cross-correlation to produce virtual observations for establishing a third-order parallel factor data model with the use of spatial and temporal information. The array's steering vectors can be extracted by trilinear decomposition. The amplitude and phase information of the whole array elements is jointly exploited to classify the source types and obtain the location estimates via a least squares method. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is computationally efficient since no spectral searches, high-order statistics calculations or parameter pairing procedures are required. The deterministic Cramér-Rao bound is also derived as a performance benchmark, and numerical results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed method.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"245-258"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142867290","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3354364
{"title":"IEEE Signal Processing Society Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3354364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2024.3354364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"72 ","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10811671","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142858954","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3499092
{"title":"List of Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3499092","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3499092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"72 ","pages":"5725-5732"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10807693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142858249","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3519442
Danyan Lin;Gang Wang;K. C. Ho;Lei Huang
This paper addresses the multi-object localization problem by using a hybrid of differential time delay (DTD) and angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurements collected by a single receiver in an unsynchronized multistatic localization system, where two kinds of transmitters, intentional transmitters at known positions and unintentional transmitters at unknown positions, are used for the illumination of the objects. By integrating the DTD and AOA measurements, we first derive a new set of transformed observation models relating to the object positions, and then investigate the three cases of intentional transmitters only, a mix of intentional and unintentional transmitters, and unintentional transmitters only. Localization for the first case is addressed by a linear weighted least squares (LWLS) estimator and the other two are solved by applying semidefinite relaxation followed with an LWLS estimator. Furthermore, we conduct a thorough theoretical analysis. It shows that incorporating unintentional transmitters at unknown positions is beneficial to improve the localization performance, and increasing the number of objects will also improve the positioning accuracy when unintentional transmitters are used. Additionally, a theoretical bias analysis is conducted, based on which a bias-subtracted solution is given. Both theoretical mean square error analysis and simulations validate well the good performance of the proposed methods.
{"title":"Hybrid DTD-AOA Multi-Object Localization in 3-D by Single Receiver Without Synchronization and Some Transmitter Positions: Solutions and Analysis","authors":"Danyan Lin;Gang Wang;K. C. Ho;Lei Huang","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3519442","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2024.3519442","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the multi-object localization problem by using a hybrid of differential time delay (DTD) and angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurements collected by a single receiver in an unsynchronized multistatic localization system, where two kinds of transmitters, intentional transmitters at known positions and unintentional transmitters at unknown positions, are used for the illumination of the objects. By integrating the DTD and AOA measurements, we first derive a new set of transformed observation models relating to the object positions, and then investigate the three cases of intentional transmitters only, a mix of intentional and unintentional transmitters, and unintentional transmitters only. Localization for the first case is addressed by a linear weighted least squares (LWLS) estimator and the other two are solved by applying semidefinite relaxation followed with an LWLS estimator. Furthermore, we conduct a thorough theoretical analysis. It shows that incorporating unintentional transmitters at unknown positions is beneficial to improve the localization performance, and increasing the number of objects will also improve the positioning accuracy when unintentional transmitters are used. Additionally, a theoretical bias analysis is conducted, based on which a bias-subtracted solution is given. Both theoretical mean square error analysis and simulations validate well the good performance of the proposed methods.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"305-323"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142840864","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}