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Multi-Frequency Tracking via Group-Sparse Optimal Transport

Haasler, Isabel  
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Elvander, Filip
January 1, 2024
Ieee Control Systems Letters

In this letter, we introduce an optimal transport framework for inferring power distributions over both spatial location and temporal frequency. Recently, it has been shown that optimal transport is a powerful tool for estimating spatial spectra that change smoothly over time. In this letter, we consider the tracking of the spatio-temporal spectrum corresponding to a small number of moving broad-band signal sources. Typically, such tracking problems are addressed by treating the spatio-temporal power distribution in a frequency-by-frequency manner, allowing to use well-understood models for narrow-band signals. This however leads to decreased target resolution due to inefficient use of the available information. We propose an extension of the optimal transport framework that exploits information from several frequencies simultaneously by estimating a spatio-temporal distribution penalized by a group-sparsity regularizer. This approach finds a spatial spectrum that changes smoothly over time, and at each time instance has a small support that is similar across frequencies. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first formulation combining optimal transport and sparsity for solving inverse problems. As is shown on simulated and real data, our method can successfully track targets in scenarios where information from separate frequency bands alone is insufficient.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3405375
Web of Science ID

WOS:001251152400002

Author(s)
Haasler, Isabel  
Elvander, Filip
Date Issued

2024-01-01

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Ieee Control Systems Letters
Volume

8

Start page

1048

End page

1053

Subjects

Technology

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Estimation

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Frequency Estimation

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Costs

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Broadband Communication

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Time-Frequency Analysis

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Target Tracking

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Filter Banks

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Optimization Algorithms

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Large-Scale Systems

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LTS4  
FunderGrant Number

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse

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July 3, 2024
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