Signal Processing
Acquisition and processing of information.
Our research in the area of signal processing encompasses a wide range of work in the areas of communications, sensing, estimation, localization, and speech and visual information processing. We explore novel approaches for signal acquisition and coding, methods to filter and recover signals in the presence of noise and other degrading factors, and techniques that infer meaning from the processed signals.
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Researchers
Toshiaki
Koike-Akino
Philip V.
Orlik
Kieran
Parsons
Pu
(Perry)
WangYe
Wang
Karl
Berntorp
Petros T.
Boufounos
Hassan
Mansour
Stefano
Di Cairano
Jianlin
Guo
Bingnan
Wang
Dehong
Liu
Yebin
Wang
Wataru
Tsujita
Mouhacine
Benosman
Yanting
Ma
Matthew
Brand
Joshua
Rapp
Devesh K.
Jha
Chungwei
Lin
Hongbo
Sun
Jinyun
Zhang
Ankush
Chakrabarty
Anthony
Vetro
Abraham
Goldsmith
Jonathan
Le Roux
Suhas
Lohit
Tim K.
Marks
Avishai
Weiss
William S.
Yerazunis
Jose
Amaya
Anoop
Cherian
Radu
Corcodel
Vedang M.
Deshpande
Chiori
Hori
Sameer
Khurana
Pedro
Miraldo
Huifang
Sun
Abraham P.
Vinod
Jing
Liu
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Awards
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AWARD Best paper award at PHMAP 2023 Date: September 14, 2023
Awarded to: Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith
MERL Contacts: Abraham Goldsmith; Dehong Liu
Research Areas: Electric Systems, Signal ProcessingBrief- MERL researchers Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith were awarded one of three best paper awards at Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2023 (PHMAP23) held in Tokyo from September 11th to 14th, 2023, for their co-authored paper titled 'Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors.'
PHMAP is a biennial international conference specialized in prognostics and health management. PHMAP23 attracted more than 300 attendees from worldwide and published more than 160 regular papers from academia and industry including aerospace, production, civil engineering, electronics, and so on.
- MERL researchers Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith were awarded one of three best paper awards at Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2023 (PHMAP23) held in Tokyo from September 11th to 14th, 2023, for their co-authored paper titled 'Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors.'
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AWARD MERL’s Paper on Wi-Fi Sensing Earns Top 3% Paper Recognition at ICASSP 2023, Selected as a Best Student Paper Award Finalist Date: June 9, 2023
Awarded to: Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, Petros Boufounos and Petar Popovski
MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Signal ProcessingBrief- A MERL Paper on Wi-Fi sensing was recognized as a Top 3% Paper among all 2709 accepted papers at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). Co-authored by Cristian Vaca-Rubio and Petar Popovski from Aalborg University, Denmark, and MERL researchers Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, and Petros Boufounos, the paper "MmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning" was also a Best Student Paper Award finalist.
Performed during Cristian’s stay at MERL first as a visiting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and then as a full-time intern in 2022, this work capitalizes on standards-compliant Wi-Fi signals to perform indoor localization and sensing. The paper uses a neural dynamic learning framework to address technical issues such as low sampling rate and irregular sampling intervals.
ICASSP, a flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), was hosted on the Greek island of Rhodes from June 04 to June 10, 2023. ICASSP 2023 marked the largest ICASSP in history, boasting over 4000 participants and 6128 submitted papers, out of which 2709 were accepted.
- A MERL Paper on Wi-Fi sensing was recognized as a Top 3% Paper among all 2709 accepted papers at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). Co-authored by Cristian Vaca-Rubio and Petar Popovski from Aalborg University, Denmark, and MERL researchers Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, and Petros Boufounos, the paper "MmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning" was also a Best Student Paper Award finalist.
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AWARD Best Paper Award of 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices & Systems Date: March 27, 2023
Awarded to: Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Hiroshi Mineno
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal ProcessingBrief- MELCO/MERL research paper “IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1GHz Frequency Bands” has won the Best Paper Award of the 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices and Systems. The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) award was established in 1970 and is conferred on the authors of particularly excellent papers, which are published in the IPSJ journals and transactions. Our paper was published by the IPSJ Transaction on Consumer Device and System Vol. 29 in 2021 and authors are Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik and Hiroshi Mineno.
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News & Events
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NEWS Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote in IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop Date: June 13, 2024
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons; Pu (Perry) Wang
Research Areas: Communications, Machine Learning, Signal ProcessingBrief- Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote titled "Private IoT Networks" in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024 Workshop "Industrial Private 5G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks", held in Denver, Colorado from June 9-13. The ICC is one of two IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences.
Abstract: With the advent of private 5G-and-Beyond communication technologies, private IoT networks have been emerging. In private IoT networks, network owners have full control on the network resource management. However, to fully realize private IoT networks, the upper layer technologies need to be developed as well. This keynote presents machine learning based anomaly detection in manufacturing systems, innovative multipath TCP technologies over heterogeneous wireless IoT networks, novel channel resource scheduling in private 5G networks and efficient wireless coexistence of the heterogeneous wireless systems.
- Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote titled "Private IoT Networks" in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024 Workshop "Industrial Private 5G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks", held in Denver, Colorado from June 9-13. The ICC is one of two IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences.
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TALK [MERL Seminar Series 2024] Fadel Adib presents talk titled Decoding Hidden Worlds: Unprecedented Sensing and Connectivity for Climate, Robotics, & Smart Environments Date & Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2024; 12:00 PM
Speaker: Fadel Adib, MIT & Cartesian
MERL Host: Wael Hajj Ali
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Dynamical Systems, Signal ProcessingAbstract- This talk will cover a new generation of technologies that can sense, connect, and perceive the physical world in unprecedented ways. These technologies can uncover hidden worlds around us, promising transformative impact on areas spanning climate change monitoring, ocean mapping, healthcare, food security, supply chain, and even extraterrestrial exploration.
The talk will cover four core technologies invented by Prof. Adib and his team. The first is an ocean internet-of-things (IoT) that uses battery-free sensors for climate change monitoring, marine life discovery, and seafood production (aquaculture). The second is a new perception technology that enables robots to sense and manipulate hidden objects. The third is a new augmented reality headset with ``X-ray vision”, which extends human perception beyond line-of-sight. The fourth is a wireless sensing technology that can “see through walls” and monitor people’s vital signs (including their breathing, heart rate, and emotions), enabling smart environments that sense humans requiring any contact with the human body.
The talk will touch on the journey of these technologies from their inception at MIT to international collaborations and startups that are translating them to real-world impact in areas spanning healthcare, climate change, and supply chain.
- This talk will cover a new generation of technologies that can sense, connect, and perceive the physical world in unprecedented ways. These technologies can uncover hidden worlds around us, promising transformative impact on areas spanning climate change monitoring, ocean mapping, healthcare, food security, supply chain, and even extraterrestrial exploration.
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Research Highlights
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Internships
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ST1763: Technologies for Multimodal Tracking and Imaging
MERL is seeking a motivated intern to assist in developing hardware and algorithms for multimodal imaging applications. The project involves integration of radar, camera, and depth sensors in a variety of sensing scenarios. The ideal candidate should have experience with FMCW radar and/or depth sensing, and be fluent in Python and scripting methods. Familiarity with optical tracking of humans and experience with hardware prototyping is desired. Good knowledge of computational imaging and/or radar imaging methods is a plus.
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ST1762: Computational Sensing Technologies
The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to assist in the development of computational methods for a variety of sensing applications. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students and have solid background and publication record in any of the following, or related areas: imaging inverse problems, deep learning for inverse problems, large-scale optimization, blind inverse scattering, radar/lidar/THz imaging, joint communications and sensing, multimodal sensor fusion, object or human tracking, sensing of dynamical systems, or wave-based inversion. Experience with experimentally measured data is desirable. Publication of the results produced during our internships is expected. The duration of the internships is anticipated to be 3-6 months. Start date is flexible.
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ST2090: Radiation Source Localization
The Computational Sensing Team at MERL is seeking an intern to work on estimation algorithms for radioactive source localization. The candidate should have experience with statistical modeling and estimation theory. A detailed knowledge of interactions of particles with matter, imaging inverse problems, and/or computed tomography is preferred. Hands-on experience with high-energy physics simulators (e.g., Geant4) is beneficial but not required. Strong programming skills in Python are essential. Publication of the results produced during our internships is expected. The duration is anticipated to be 3-6 months.
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Recent Publications
- "Distributed Road-Map Monitoring Using Onboard Sensors", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2024.BibTeX TR2024-093 PDF
- @inproceedings{Zhang2024jul,
- author = {Zhang, Yanyu and Greiff, Marcus and Ren, Wei and Berntorp, Karl}},
- title = {Distributed Road-Map Monitoring Using Onboard Sensors},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2024,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-093}
- }
, - "Variational Bayes Kalman Filter for Joint Vehicle Localization and Road Mapping Using Onboard Sensors", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2024.BibTeX TR2024-082 PDF
- @inproceedings{Berntorp2024jun,
- author = {Berntorp, Karl and Greiff, Marcus}},
- title = {Variational Bayes Kalman Filter for Joint Vehicle Localization and Road Mapping Using Onboard Sensors},
- booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2024,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-082}
- }
, - "Robust Parameter Estimation for Hybrid Dynamical Systems with Linear Parametric Uncertainty", Automatica, June 2024.BibTeX TR2024-076 PDF
- @article{Johnson2024jun,
- author = {Johnson, Ryan S. and Di Cairano, Stefano and Sanfelice, Ricardo}},
- title = {Robust Parameter Estimation for Hybrid Dynamical Systems with Linear Parametric Uncertainty},
- journal = {Automatica},
- year = 2024,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-076}
- }
, - "SIRA: Scalable Inter-frame Relation and Association for Radar Perception", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2024, pp. 15024-15034.BibTeX TR2024-041 PDF
- @inproceedings{Yataka2024jun,
- author = {Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei},
- title = {SIRA: Scalable Inter-frame Relation and Association for Radar Perception},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {15024--15034},
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-041}
- }
, - "Graph-Based Analog Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Haptic Communication", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2024.BibTeX TR2024-070 PDF
- @inproceedings{Fujihashi2024jun,
- author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Corcodel, Radu}},
- title = {Graph-Based Analog Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Haptic Communication},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
- year = 2024,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-070}
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, - "Learning Based Routing Link Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2024.BibTeX TR2024-069 PDF
- @inproceedings{Wang2024jun3,
- author = {Wang, Zhiyang and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V.}},
- title = {Learning Based Routing Link Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
- year = 2024,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-069}
- }
, - "Harmonic Signature Extraction in Motor Fault Detection via a Weighted Sparsity-driven and Graph-based Model", The IFAC Safeprocess 2024 Symposium, June 2024.BibTeX TR2024-067 PDF
- @inproceedings{Shinya2024jun,
- author = {Shinya, Tsurutashin and Liu, Dehong}},
- title = {Harmonic Signature Extraction in Motor Fault Detection via a Weighted Sparsity-driven and Graph-based Model},
- booktitle = {The IFAC Safeprocess 2024 Symposium},
- year = 2024,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-067}
- }
, - "Object Trajectory Estimation with Continuous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning of Millimeter-Wave Wi-Fi", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2024.3388930, April 2024.BibTeX TR2024-044 PDF
- @article{Vaca-Rubio2024apr,
- author = {Vaca-Rubio, Cristian and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Boufounos, Petros T. and Popovski, Petar},
- title = {Object Trajectory Estimation with Continuous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning of Millimeter-Wave Wi-Fi},
- journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing},
- year = 2024,
- month = apr,
- doi = {10.1109/JSTSP.2024.3388930},
- issn = {1941-0484},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-044}
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- "Distributed Road-Map Monitoring Using Onboard Sensors", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2024.
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