Beamforming Using Support Vector Machines

Abstract

Support vector machines (SVMs) have improved generalization performance over other classical optimization techniques. Here, we introduce an SVM-based approach for linear array processing and beamforming. The development of a modified cost function is presented and it is shown how it can be applied to the problem of linear beamforming. Finally, comparison examples are included to show the validity of the new minimization approach.Publicad