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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,934 Views
18 Pages

30 June 2021

Recently, numerous reconstruction-based adaptive beamformers have been proposed, which can improve the quality of imaging or localization in the application of passive synthetic aperture (PSA) sensing. However, when the trajectory is curvilinear, exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,584 Views
26 Pages

6 May 2023

Deception jamming of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has attracted extensive attention due to its low power consumption and high fidelity advantages. However, existing SAR deception jamming algorithms assume that SAR operates on a linear trajectory. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,547 Views
35 Pages

29 April 2024

The imaging of high-speed high-squint synthetic aperture radar (HSHS-SAR), which is mounted on maneuvering platforms with curved trajectory, is a challenging task due to the existence of 3-D acceleration and the azimuth spatial variability of range m...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Distinguishing a Drone from Birds Based on Trajectory Movement and Deep Learning

  • Andrii Nesteruk,
  • Valerii Nikitin,
  • Yosyp Albrekht,
  • Łukasz Ścisło,
  • Damian Grela and
  • Paweł Król
Sensors2026, 26(3), 755;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26030755 
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23 January 2026

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increasingly share low-altitude airspace with birds, making early distinguishing between drones and biological targets critical for safety and security. This work addresses long-range scenarios where objects occupy onl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,352 Views
21 Pages

Object Positioning Algorithm Based on Multidimensional Scaling and Optimization for Synthetic Gesture Data Generation

  • Borja Saez-Mingorance,
  • Antonio Escobar-Molero,
  • Javier Mendez-Gomez,
  • Encarnacion Castillo-Morales and
  • Diego P. Morales-Santos

3 September 2021

This work studies the feasibility of a novel two-step algorithm for infrastructure and object positioning, using pairwise distances. The proposal is based on the optimization algorithms, Scaling-by-Majorizing-a-Complicated-Function and the Limited-Me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,645 Views
19 Pages

An Estimation and Compensation Method for Motion Trajectory Error in Bistatic SAR

  • Yi Li,
  • Wenchao Li,
  • Junjie Wu,
  • Zhichao Sun,
  • Huarui Sun and
  • Jianyu Yang

2 November 2022

Bistatic synthetic aperture radar (BiSAR) has drawn increasing attention in recent studies benefiting from its ability for forward-looking imaging, its capability of receiver radio silence and its resistance to jamming. However, the motion trajectory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,275 Views
12 Pages

9 June 2022

The trajectory-crossing method is an important and effective method for spaceborne SAR (synthetic aperture radar) to detect a two-dimensional current field. However, in practical applications, there are few spaceborne SAR data that meet the requireme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
847 Views
23 Pages

An Efficient SAR Raw Signal Simulator Accounting for Large Trajectory Deviation

  • Shaoqi Dai,
  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Zhongwei Lin,
  • Yi Zhang and
  • Jinhe Ran

9 July 2025

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) raw signal simulator is useful for supporting algorithm innovation, system scheme verification, etc. Trajectory deviation is a realistic factor that should be considered in a SAR raw signal simulator and is very impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,614 Views
15 Pages

3 August 2022

The real-time imaging research of squint spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with high resolution has significant value in both military and civil fields, which makes it a hot issue in SAR research. It is necessary to solve the contradictory pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,124 Views
27 Pages

8 October 2020

The paper presents the concept of planning the optimal trajectory of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of a short-range tactical class, whose task is to recognize a set of ground objects as a part of a reconnaissance mission. Tasks carried out...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,110 Views
9 Pages

Synthetic Aircraft Trajectories Generated with Multivariate Density Models

  • Timothé Krauth,
  • Jérôme Morio,
  • Xavier Olive,
  • Benoit Figuet and
  • Raphael Monstein

30 December 2021

Aircraft trajectory generation is a high stakes problem with a wide scope of applications, including collision risk estimation, capacity management and airspace design. Most generation methods focus on optimizing a criterion under constraints to find...

  • Article
  • Open Access
897 Views
16 Pages

This paper addresses the aperture limitation problem faced by array-equipped underwater gliders (UGs) in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. A passive synthetic aperture (PSA) method for DOA estimation using a single hydrophone mounted on a UG is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,160 Views
21 Pages

Modelling human mobility is crucial in several areas, from urban planning to epidemic modelling, traffic forecasting, and what-if analysis. Existing generative models focus mainly on reproducing the spatial and temporal dimensions of human mobility,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,359 Views
23 Pages

27 October 2023

The miniaturized and lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAV SAR) is gradually becoming a research hotspot. The motion errors of UAVs lead to a deviation from a straight flight path couple with an unknown elevation of the ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,502 Views
26 Pages

14 May 2024

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an advanced microwave imaging technology that provides all-weather and all-day target information. However, as spaceborne SAR resolution improves, traditional echo signal models based on airborne SAR desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,368 Views
20 Pages

Energy-Efficient Target Area Imaging for UAV-SAR-Based ISAC: Beamforming Design and Trajectory Optimization

  • Jiayi Zhou,
  • Xiangyin Zhang,
  • Kaiyu Qin,
  • Feng Yang,
  • Libo Wang and
  • Deyu Song

17 June 2025

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has been enhanced to serve as a pivotal enabler for next-generation communication systems. In the context of target area detection, a UAV-SAR (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Synthetic Aperture Radar) based I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,996 Views
20 Pages

4 September 2020

This paper describes the near-surface transport properties and Lagrangian statistics in the Adriatic semi-enclosed basin using synthetic drifters. Lagrangian transport models were used to simulate synthetic trajectories from the mean flow fields obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,449 Views
24 Pages

29 February 2024

Polar format algorithm (PFA) is a widely used high-resolution SAR imaging algorithm that can be implemented in advanced widefield staring synthetic aperture radar (WFS-SAR). However, existing algorithms have limited analysis in wavefront curvature er...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,966 Views
25 Pages

6 December 2018

Near space is the key to integrating “sky” and “space” into the future. A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that works in this area would initiate a technological revolution for remote sensing applications. This study mainly focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,979 Views
32 Pages

VR Co-Lab: A Virtual Reality Platform for Human–Robot Disassembly Training and Synthetic Data Generation

  • Yashwanth Maddipatla,
  • Sibo Tian,
  • Xiao Liang,
  • Minghui Zheng and
  • Beiwen Li

17 March 2025

This research introduces a virtual reality (VR) training system for improving human–robot collaboration (HRC) in industrial disassembly tasks, particularly for e-waste recycling. Conventional training approaches frequently fail to provide suffi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,003 Views
23 Pages

15 September 2022

This paper presents a trajectory determination and optimization method of multirotors equipped with a single-channel radar to obtain 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging. The result is a realistic trajectory that allows to obtain an imaging of the ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,137 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2020

The imagery of airborne highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with curved trajectory is a challenging task due to the translational-variant range cell migration (RCM) and azimuth modulation. However, in most cases of practical application, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
603 Views
36 Pages

Fair and Explainable Multitask Deep Learning on Synthetic Endocrine Trajectories for Real-Time Prediction of Stress, Performance, and Neuroendocrine States

  • Abdullah,
  • Zulaikha Fatima,
  • Carlos Guzman Sánchez Mejorada,
  • Muhammad Ateeb Ather,
  • José Luis Oropeza Rodríguez and
  • Grigori Sidorov

25 November 2025

Cortisol and testosterone are key digital biomarkers reflecting neuroendocrine activity across the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axes, encoding stress adaptation and behavioral r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,350 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2023

The new mode of Circular Synthetic Aperture Radar (CSAR) has several advantages including multi-aspect and long-time observation, which can generate high-frame-rate image sequences to detect moving targets with a single-channel system. Nonetheless, d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,293 Views
20 Pages

A Focusing Method of Buildings for Airborne Circular SAR

  • Dong Feng,
  • Daoxiang An,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Leping Chen and
  • Xiaotao Huang

9 January 2024

Airborne circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) can realize high-resolution imaging of the scene over 360 degrees azimuth angle variation. Aiming at the problem of focusing of buildings for the airborne CSAR, this paper first analyzes the phase err...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,264 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2024

With the rapid development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), delivery platforms are gradually becoming diversified and miniaturized. The SAR flight process is susceptible to external influences, resulting in unsatisfactory imaging results, so it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,516 Views
22 Pages

DP-CSM: Efficient Differentially Private Synthesis for Human Mobility Trajectory with Coresets and Staircase Mechanism

  • Xin Yao,
  • Juan Yu,
  • Jianmin Han,
  • Jianfeng Lu,
  • Hao Peng,
  • Yijia Wu and
  • Xiaoqian Cao

Generating differentially private synthetic human mobility trajectories from real trajectories is a commonly used approach for privacy-preserving trajectory publishing. However, existing synthetic trajectory generation methods suffer from the drawbac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,806 Views
30 Pages

Phase-Type Distributions of Animal Trajectories with Random Walks

  • Rodolfo Vera-Amaro,
  • Mario E. Rivero-Ángeles and
  • Alberto Luviano-Juárez

25 August 2023

Animal monitoring systems often rely on expensive and challenging GPS-based systems to obtain accurate trajectories. However, an alternative approach is to generate synthetic trajectories that exhibit similar statistical properties to real trajectori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,282 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2023

Trajectory generation can help predict the future road network state and properly deal with the privacy issues of trajectory data usage. To solve the problem that routes with very few journeys (ultra-low-frequency journey routes) are difficult to gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,831 Views
18 Pages

Vehicle Trajectory Data Augmentation Using Data Features and Road Map

  • Jianfeng Hou,
  • Wei Song,
  • Yu Zhang and
  • Shengmou Yang

With the advancement of intelligent transportation systems, vehicle trajectory data have become a key component in areas like traffic flow prediction, route planning, and traffic management. However, high-quality, publicly available trajectory datase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,813 Views
18 Pages

Dataset Condensation via Expert Subspace Projection

  • Zhiheng Ma,
  • Dezheng Gao,
  • Shaolei Yang,
  • Xing Wei and
  • Yihong Gong

28 September 2023

The rapid growth in dataset sizes in modern deep learning has significantly increased data storage costs. Furthermore, the training and time costs for deep neural networks are generally proportional to the dataset size. Therefore, reducing the datase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,692 Views
19 Pages

A Framework for the Detection of Search and Rescue Patterns Using Shapelet Classification

  • Konstantinos Kapadais,
  • Iraklis Varlamis,
  • Christos Sardianos and
  • Konstantinos Tserpes

4 September 2019

The problem of unmanned supervision of maritime areas has attracted the interest of researchers for the last few years, mainly thanks to the advances in vessel monitoring that the Automatic Identification System (AIS) has brought. Several frameworks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,380 Views
19 Pages

A New Approach to Measuring the Similarity of Indoor Semantic Trajectories

  • Jin Zhu,
  • Dayu Cheng,
  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Ci Song,
  • Jie Chen and
  • Tao Pei

People spend more than 80% of their time in indoor spaces, such as shopping malls and office buildings. Indoor trajectories collected by indoor positioning devices, such as WiFi and Bluetooth devices, can reflect human movement behaviors in indoor sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,464 Views
22 Pages

30 June 2017

In this paper, we propose to improve trajectory shape analysis by explicitly considering the speed attribute of trajectory data, and to successfully achieve anomaly detection. The shape of object motion trajectory is modeled using Kernel Density Esti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,661 Views
19 Pages

Measuring the similarity between a pair of trajectories is the basis of many spatiotemporal clustering methods and has wide applications in trajectory pattern mining. However, most measures of trajectory similarity in the literature are based on prec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,392 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2023

With the popularity of location services and the widespread use of trajectory data, trajectory privacy protection has become a popular research area. k-anonymity technology is a common method for achieving privacy-preserved trajectory publishing. Whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,807 Views
29 Pages

VECTOR: Velocity-Enhanced GRU Neural Network for Real-Time 3D UAV Trajectory Prediction

  • Omer Nacar,
  • Mohamed Abdelkader,
  • Lahouari Ghouti,
  • Khaled Gabr,
  • Abdulrahman Al-Batati and
  • Anis Koubaa

25 December 2024

This paper addresses the challenge of predicting 3D trajectories for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in real-time, a critical task for applications like aerial surveillance and defense. Current prediction models primarily leverage only position data,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
758 Views
20 Pages

A Semantic Behavioral Sequence-Based Approach to Trajectory Privacy Protection

  • Ji Xi,
  • Weiqi Zhang,
  • Zhengwang Xia,
  • Li Zhao and
  • Huawei Tao

7 August 2025

Trajectory data contain numerous sensitive attributes. Unauthorized disclosure of precise user trajectory information generates persistent privacy and security concerns that significantly impact daily life. Most existing trajectory privacy protection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,073 Views
21 Pages

9 August 2020

Sonars are essential for underwater sensing as they can operate over extended ranges and in poor visibility conditions. The use of a synthetic aperture is a popular approach to increase the resolution of sonars, i.e., the sonar with its N transducers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,383 Views
16 Pages

14 January 2024

Continuous k-similarity trajectories search over a data stream is an important problem in the domain of spatio-temporal databases. Given a set of trajectories T and a query trajectory Tq over road network G, the system monitors trajectories within T,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,276 Views
26 Pages

21 January 2025

In the context of 3D geometric reconstruction from sequential inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images, the accurate scatterer trajectory association is a critical step. Aiming at the above problem, an enhanced scatterer trajectory association...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,381 Views
20 Pages

Publication of trajectory data that contain rich information of vehicles in the dimensions of time and space (location) enables online monitoring and supervision of vehicles in motion and offline traffic analysis for various management tasks. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,371 Views
17 Pages

14 December 2023

A method for the analysis of super-resolution microscopy images is presented. This method is based on the analysis of stochastic trajectories of particles moving on the membrane of a cell with the assumption that this motion is determined by the prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
13,796 Views
23 Pages

Clustering Multivariate Time Series Using Hidden Markov Models

  • Shima Ghassempour,
  • Federico Girosi and
  • Anthony Maeder

In this paper we describe an algorithm for clustering multivariate time series with variables taking both categorical and continuous values. Time series of this type are frequent in health care, where they represent the health trajectories of individ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,523 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2024

It is worthwhile to calculate the execution cost of a manipulator for selecting a planning algorithm to generate trajectories, especially for an agricultural robot. Although there are various off-the-shelf trajectory planning methods, such as pursuin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,880 Views
18 Pages

Low Complexity Radar Gesture Recognition Using Synthetic Training Data

  • Yanhua Zhao,
  • Vladica Sark,
  • Milos Krstic and
  • Eckhard Grass

28 December 2022

Developments in radio detection and ranging (radar) technology have made hand gesture recognition feasible. In heat map-based gesture recognition, feature images have a large size and require complex neural networks to extract information. Machine le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,379 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2021

In this paper, a fast back-projection (BP) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging algorithm based on wavenumber spectrum fusion is proposed for high maneuvering platforms with high squint angles and high dive angles. When the platforms have nonlinear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,861 Views
26 Pages

GRFT-Based Moving Ship Target Detection and Imaging in Geosynchronous SAR

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Wei Xiong,
  • Xichao Dong,
  • Cheng Hu and
  • Yang Sun

10 December 2018

Geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) has great potentials in ship surveillance due to its high time resolution and wide swath coverage. However, the remote slant range will result in a very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of echoes that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,401 Views
12 Pages

Currently, there are billions of connected devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has boosted these numbers. In the case of private networks, a few hundred devices connected can cause instability and even data loss in communication. In this articl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,141 Views
19 Pages

11 May 2018

In this paper, a new moving target detection algorithm for single channel circular Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is presented. Circular SAR can perform observation with circular trajectory and retrieve multiaspect information. Due to the circular tr...

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