2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDSAM-2.5
Paper Title DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION FOR NON-COHERENT SUB-ARRAYS VIA JOINT SPARSE AND LOW-RANK SIGNAL RECOVERY
Authors Tom Tirer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; Oded Bialer, General Motors, Israel
SessionSAM-2: Direction of Arrival Estimation 2
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Tuesday, 08 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Time:Tuesday, 08 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing: [SAM-DOAE] Direction of arrival estimation and source localization
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Abstract Estimating the directions of arrival (DOAs) of multiple sources from a single snapshot obtained by a coherent antenna array is a well-known problem, which can be addressed by sparse signal reconstruction methods, where the DOAs are estimated from the peaks of the recovered high-dimensional signal. In this paper, we consider a more challenging DOA estimation task where the array is composed of non-coherent sub-arrays (i.e., sub-arrays that observe different unknown phase shifts due to using low-cost unsynchronized local oscillators). We formulate this problem as the reconstruction of a joint sparse and low-rank matrix and solve its convex relaxation. While the DOAs can be estimated from the solution of the convex problem, we further show how an improvement is obtained if, instead, one estimates from this solution only the phase shifts, creates ``phase-corrected" observations and applies another final (plain, coherent) sparsity-based DOA estimation. Numerical experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms strategies that are based on non-coherent processing of the sub-arrays as well as other sparsity-based methods.