8 accepted papers
This paper addresses the problem of robust and sparse PCA. We consider a formulation combining a M-estimation type robust subspace recovery term and a mixed norm that promotes structured sparsity in the basis vectors, which is especially interesting for joint dimension reduction and variable selecti…
In practical applications, non-Gaussianity of the signal at the sensor array is detrimental to the performance of conventional Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimators developed under the Gaussian model. In this paper, we propose a novel robust DOA estimator from the data collected at the sensor array…
A growing problem in the remote sensing community concerns the estimation of change-points in a time series of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Although the methodologies of change-point estimation have already been investigated in the literature, there are, to the best of our knowledge, no st…
This paper addresses structured covariance matrix estimation under t -distribution. Covariance matrices frequently reveal a particular structure due to the considered application and taking into account this structure usually improves estimation accuracy. In the framework of robust estimation, the t…
This paper investigates calibration of sensor arrays in the radio astronomy context. Current and future radio telescopes require computationally efficient algorithms to overcome the new technical challenges as large collecting area, wide field of view and huge data volume. Specifically, we study the…
This paper derives lower bounds for the mean square errors of parameter estimators in the case of Poisson distributed data subjected to multiple abrupt changes. Since both change locations (discrete parameters) and parameters of the Poisson distribution (continuous parameters) are unknown, it is app…
This paper investigates parametric direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in a particular context: i) each sensor is characterized by an unknown complex gain and ii) the array consists of a collection of subarrays which are substantially separated from each other leading ] to a structured noise covar…
The maximum likelihood (ML) and maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation techniques are widely used to address the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problems, an important topic in sensor array processing. Conventionally the ML estimators in the DOA estimation context assume the sensor noise to fol…