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View article: Fine Grained Analysis and Optimization of Large Scale Automotive Radar Networks
Fine Grained Analysis and Optimization of Large Scale Automotive Radar Networks Open
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) enabled by automotive radars have significantly enhanced vehicle safety and driver experience. However, the extensive use of radars in dense road conditions introduces mutual interference, which de…
View article: Modeling and Statistical Characterization of Large-Scale Automotive Radar Networks
Modeling and Statistical Characterization of Large-Scale Automotive Radar Networks Open
The impact of discrete clutter and co-channel interference on the performance of automotive radar networks has been studied using stochastic geometry, in particular, by leveraging two-dimensional Poisson point processes (PPPs). However, su…
View article: Guest Editorial: Advances in AI‐assisted radar sensing applications
Guest Editorial: Advances in AI‐assisted radar sensing applications Open
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the accessibility of cost-effective radar hardware have transformed various sectors, including e-healthcare, smart cities, and critical infrastructures. AI holds immense potential for…
View article: Impact of Urban Street Geometry on the Detection Probability of Automotive Radars
Impact of Urban Street Geometry on the Detection Probability of Automotive Radars Open
Prior works have analyzed the performance of millimeter wave automotive radars in the presence of diverse clutter and interference scenarios using stochastic geometry tools instead of more time-consuming measurement studies or system-level…
View article: Radar Enhanced Multi-Armed Bandit for Rapid Beam Selection in Millimeter Wave Communications
Radar Enhanced Multi-Armed Bandit for Rapid Beam Selection in Millimeter Wave Communications Open
Multi-arm bandit (MAB) algorithms have been used to learn optimal beams for millimeter wave communication systems. Here, the complexity of learning the optimal beam linearly scales with the number of beams, leading to high latency when the…
View article: Reconfigurable Radar Signal Processing Accelerator for Integrated Sensing and Communication System
Reconfigurable Radar Signal Processing Accelerator for Integrated Sensing and Communication System Open
IEEE 802.11ad-based integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) have been identified as a potential solution for enabling next-generation intelligent transportation systems in the millimeter wave (mmW) spectrum. The radar functionality wi…
View article: Estimation of Electrical Characteristics of Inhomogeneous Walls Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Estimation of Electrical Characteristics of Inhomogeneous Walls Using Generative Adversarial Networks Open
Through-wall radars are researched and developed for the detection, localization, and tracking of human activities in indoor environments. Electromagnetic wave propagation through walls introduces refraction, attenuation, multipath, and gh…
View article: Antenna Design Optimization using GAN-based Surrogate Model
Antenna Design Optimization using GAN-based Surrogate Model Open
Deep neural network (DNN) based surrogate models have been used to rapidly create antenna characteristics as a function of design geometry parameters in place of computationally expensive electromagnetic (EM) solvers.The limitation of sing…
View article: Estimation of Electrical Characteristics of Inhomogeneous Walls Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Estimation of Electrical Characteristics of Inhomogeneous Walls Using Generative Adversarial Networks Open
Through-wall radars are researched and developed for the detection, localization, and tracking of human activities in indoor environments. Electromagnetic wave propagation through walls introduces refraction, attenuation, multipath, and gh…
View article: Circularly Polarized Fabry-Perot Cavity Sensing Antenna Design using Generative Model
Circularly Polarized Fabry-Perot Cavity Sensing Antenna Design using Generative Model Open
We consider the problem of designing a circularly polarized Fabry-P'erot cavity (FPC) antenna for S-band sensing applications such as satellite navigation and communication. The spatial distribution of peripheral roughness of the unit cell…
View article: Fusion of Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar and Camera Images for Automotive Target Tracking
Fusion of Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar and Camera Images for Automotive Target Tracking Open
Automotive targets undergoing turns in road junctions offer large synthetic apertures over short dwell times to automotive radars that can be exploited for obtaining fine cross-range resolution. Likewise, the wide bandwidths of the automot…
View article: IEEE 802.11ad Based Joint Radar Communication Transceiver: Design, Prototype and Performance Analysis
IEEE 802.11ad Based Joint Radar Communication Transceiver: Design, Prototype and Performance Analysis Open
Rapid beam alignment is required to support high gain millimeter wave (mmW) communication links between a base station (BS) and mobile users (MU). The standard IEEE 802.11ad protocol enables beam alignment at the BS and MU through a length…
View article: Optimization of Network Throughput of Joint Radar Communication System Using Stochastic Geometry
Optimization of Network Throughput of Joint Radar Communication System Using Stochastic Geometry Open
Recently joint radar communication (JRC) systems have gained considerable interest for several applications such as vehicular communications, indoor localization and activity recognition, covert military communications, and satellite based…
View article: Classification of Automotive Targets Using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Classification of Automotive Targets Using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Open
We present a framework for simulating realistic inverse synthetic aperture radar images of automotive targets at millimeter wave frequencies. The model incorporates radar scattering phenomenology of commonly found vehicles along with range…
View article: Estimation of Bistatic Radar Detection Performance Under Discrete Clutter Conditions Using Stochastic Geometry
Estimation of Bistatic Radar Detection Performance Under Discrete Clutter Conditions Using Stochastic Geometry Open
We propose a metric called the bistatic radar detection coverage probability to evaluate the detection performance of a bistatic radar under discrete clutter conditions. Such conditions are commonly encountered in indoor and outdoor enviro…
View article: Optimization of Network Throughput of Joint Radar Communication System Using Stochastic Geometry
Optimization of Network Throughput of Joint Radar Communication System Using Stochastic Geometry Open
Recently joint radar communication (JRC) systems have gained considerable interest for several applications such as vehicular communications, indoor localization and activity recognition, covert military communications, and satellite-based…
View article: Sparsity‐based autoencoders for denoising cluttered radar signatures
Sparsity‐based autoencoders for denoising cluttered radar signatures Open
Narrowband and broadband indoor radar images significantly deteriorate in the presence of target‐dependent and target‐independent static and dynamic clutter arising from walls. A stacked and sparse denoising autoencoder (StackedSDAE) is pr…
View article: Classification Of Automotive Targets Using Inverse Synthetic Aperture\n Radar Images
Classification Of Automotive Targets Using Inverse Synthetic Aperture\n Radar Images Open
We present a framework for simulating realistic inverse synthetic aperture\nradar images of automotive targets at millimeter wave frequencies. The model\nincorporates radar scattering phenomenology of commonly found vehicles along\nwith ra…
View article: Optimization of Radar Parameters for Maximum Detection Probability Under Generalized Discrete Clutter Conditions Using Stochastic Geometry
Optimization of Radar Parameters for Maximum Detection Probability Under Generalized Discrete Clutter Conditions Using Stochastic Geometry Open
We propose an analytical framework based on stochastic geometry (SG) formulations to estimate a radar's detection performance under generalized discrete clutter conditions. We model the spatial distribution of discrete clutter scatterers a…
View article: Synthesis of Micro-Doppler Signatures of Human Activities From Different Aspect Angles Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Synthesis of Micro-Doppler Signatures of Human Activities From Different Aspect Angles Using Generative Adversarial Networks Open
In this paper, we propose to produce synthesized micro-Doppler signatures from different aspect angles through conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs). Micro-Doppler signatures of non-rigid human body motions vary considerably …
View article: Optimization of Radar Parameters for Maximum Detection Probability Under Generalized Discrete Clutter Conditions Using Stochastic Geometry
Optimization of Radar Parameters for Maximum Detection Probability Under Generalized Discrete Clutter Conditions Using Stochastic Geometry Open
We propose an analytical framework based on stochastic geometry (SG) formulations to estimate a radar's detection performance under generalized discrete clutter conditions. We model the spatial distribution of discrete clutter scatterers a…
View article: Doppler-Resilient 802.11ad-Based Ultrashort Range Automotive Joint Radar-Communications System
Doppler-Resilient 802.11ad-Based Ultrashort Range Automotive Joint Radar-Communications System Open
We present an ultra-short range IEEE 802.11ad-based automotive joint radar-communications (JRC) framework, wherein we improve the radar's Doppler resilience by incorporating Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequences in the preamble. The proposed proces…
View article: Mitigation of Through-Wall Distortions of Frontal Radar Images Using Denoising Autoencoders
Mitigation of Through-Wall Distortions of Frontal Radar Images Using Denoising Autoencoders Open
Radar images of humans and other concealed objects are considerably distorted by attenuation, refraction and multipath clutter in indoor through-wall environments. While several methods have been proposed for removing target independent st…
View article: Radar cross‐sections of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies using ray tracing and point scatterer modelling
Radar cross‐sections of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies using ray tracing and point scatterer modelling Open
Simulation of radar cross‐sections of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies forms a key tool for software verification test beds for advanced driver assistance systems. Two commonly used simulation methods are the computationally sim…
View article: LEVERAGING EMI SIGNALS FOR APPLIANCE DETECTION AND ENERGY HARVESTING
LEVERAGING EMI SIGNALS FOR APPLIANCE DETECTION AND ENERGY HARVESTING Open
View article: Polarimetric Radar Cross-Sections of Pedestrians at Automotive Radar Frequencies
Polarimetric Radar Cross-Sections of Pedestrians at Automotive Radar Frequencies Open
Simulation of radar cross-sections (RCS) of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies forms a key tool for software verification test beds for advanced driver assistance systems. Two commonly used simulation methods are: the computationa…
View article: Mitigation of Through-Wall Distortions of Frontal Radar Images using Denoising Autoencoders
Mitigation of Through-Wall Distortions of Frontal Radar Images using Denoising Autoencoders Open
Radar images of humans and other concealed objects are considerably distorted by attenuation, refraction and multipath clutter in indoor through-wall environments. While several methods have been proposed for removing target independent st…
View article: Doppler-Resilient 802.11ad-Based Ultra-Short Range Automotive Joint\n Radar-Communications System
Doppler-Resilient 802.11ad-Based Ultra-Short Range Automotive Joint\n Radar-Communications System Open
We present an ultra-short range IEEE 802.11ad-based automotive joint\nradar-communications (JRC) framework, wherein we improve the radar's Doppler\nresilience by incorporating Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequences in the preamble. The\nproposed pro…
View article: Representation of Radar Micro-Dopplers Using Customized Dictionaries
Representation of Radar Micro-Dopplers Using Customized Dictionaries Open
Human motions give rise to frequency modulations, known as micro-Dopplers, to continuous wave radar signals. Micro-Doppler signals have been extensively researched for the classification of different types of human motions as well as to di…
View article: Dictionary Learning With Low Computational Complexity for Classification of Human Micro-Dopplers Across Multiple Carrier Frequencies
Dictionary Learning With Low Computational Complexity for Classification of Human Micro-Dopplers Across Multiple Carrier Frequencies Open
Recently, several machine learning algorithms have been applied for classifying micro-Doppler signatures from different human motions. However, these algorithms must demonstrate versatility in handling diversity in test and training data t…