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Self-Calibration Methods for Uncontrolled Environments in Sensor Networks: A Reference Survey
Growing progress in sensor technology has constantly expanded the number and
range of low-cost, small, and portable sensors on the market, increasing the
number and type of physical phenomena that can be measured with wirelessly
connected sensors. Large-scale deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSN)
involving hundreds or thousands of devices and limited budgets often constrain
the choice of sensing hardware, which generally has reduced accuracy,
precision, and reliability. Therefore, it is challenging to achieve good data
quality and maintain error-free measurements during the whole system lifetime.
Self-calibration or recalibration in ad hoc sensor networks to preserve data
quality is essential, yet challenging, for several reasons, such as the
existence of random noise and the absence of suitable general models.
Calibration performed in the field, without accurate and controlled
instrumentation, is said to be in an uncontrolled environment. This paper
provides current and fundamental self-calibration approaches and models for
wireless sensor networks in uncontrolled environments
Signal Recovery in Perturbed Fourier Compressed Sensing
In many applications in compressed sensing, the measurement matrix is a
Fourier matrix, i.e., it measures the Fourier transform of the underlying
signal at some specified `base' frequencies , where is the
number of measurements. However due to system calibration errors, the system
may measure the Fourier transform at frequencies
that are different from the base frequencies and where
are unknown. Ignoring perturbations of this nature can lead to major errors in
signal recovery. In this paper, we present a simple but effective alternating
minimization algorithm to recover the perturbations in the frequencies \emph{in
situ} with the signal, which we assume is sparse or compressible in some known
basis. In many cases, the perturbations can be expressed
in terms of a small number of unique parameters . We demonstrate that
in such cases, the method leads to excellent quality results that are several
times better than baseline algorithms (which are based on existing off-grid
methods in the recent literature on direction of arrival (DOA) estimation,
modified to suit the computational problem in this paper). Our results are also
robust to noise in the measurement values. We also provide theoretical results
for (1) the convergence of our algorithm, and (2) the uniqueness of its
solution under some restrictions.Comment: New theortical results about uniqueness and convergence now included.
More challenging experiments now include
The First Stray Light Corrected EUV Images of Solar Coronal Holes
Coronal holes are the source regions of the fast solar wind, which fills most
of the solar system volume near the cycle minimum. Removing stray light from
extreme ultraviolet (EUV) images of the Sun's corona is of high astrophysical
importance, as it is required to make meaningful determinations of temperatures
and densities of coronal holes. EUV images tend to be dominated by the
component of the stray light due to the long-range scatter caused by
microroughness of telescope mirror surfaces, and this component has proven very
difficult to measure in pre-flight characterization. In-flight characterization
heretofore has proven elusive due to the fact that the detected image is
simultaneously nonlinear in two unknown functions: the stray light pattern and
the true image which would be seen by an ideal telescope. Using a constrained
blind deconvolution technique that takes advantage of known zeros in the true
image provided by a fortuitous lunar transit, we have removed the stray light
from solar images seen by the EUVI instrument on STEREO-B in all four filter
bands (171, 195, 284, and 304 \AA). Uncertainty measures of the stray light
corrected images, which include the systematic error due to misestimation of
the scatter, are provided. It is shown that in EUVI, stray light contributes up
to 70% of the emission in coronal holes seen on the solar disk, which has
dramatic consequences for diagnostics of temperature and density and therefore
estimates of key plasma parameters such as the plasma \ and ion-electron
collision rates.Comment: Accepted to Astrophysical Journal Letter
Imaging With Nature: Compressive Imaging Using a Multiply Scattering Medium
The recent theory of compressive sensing leverages upon the structure of
signals to acquire them with much fewer measurements than was previously
thought necessary, and certainly well below the traditional Nyquist-Shannon
sampling rate. However, most implementations developed to take advantage of
this framework revolve around controlling the measurements with carefully
engineered material or acquisition sequences. Instead, we use the natural
randomness of wave propagation through multiply scattering media as an optimal
and instantaneous compressive imaging mechanism. Waves reflected from an object
are detected after propagation through a well-characterized complex medium.
Each local measurement thus contains global information about the object,
yielding a purely analog compressive sensing method. We experimentally
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for optical imaging by
using a 300-micrometer thick layer of white paint as the compressive imaging
device. Scattering media are thus promising candidates for designing efficient
and compact compressive imagers.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure
Model-Based Calibration of Filter Imperfections in the Random Demodulator for Compressive Sensing
The random demodulator is a recent compressive sensing architecture providing
efficient sub-Nyquist sampling of sparse band-limited signals. The compressive
sensing paradigm requires an accurate model of the analog front-end to enable
correct signal reconstruction in the digital domain. In practice, hardware
devices such as filters deviate from their desired design behavior due to
component variations. Existing reconstruction algorithms are sensitive to such
deviations, which fall into the more general category of measurement matrix
perturbations. This paper proposes a model-based technique that aims to
calibrate filter model mismatches to facilitate improved signal reconstruction
quality. The mismatch is considered to be an additive error in the discretized
impulse response. We identify the error by sampling a known calibrating signal,
enabling least-squares estimation of the impulse response error. The error
estimate and the known system model are used to calibrate the measurement
matrix. Numerical analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the calibration
method even for highly deviating low-pass filter responses. The proposed method
performance is also compared to a state of the art method based on discrete
Fourier transform trigonometric interpolation.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal
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Blind calibration for compressed sensing by convex optimization
We consider the problem of calibrating a compressed sensing measurement
system under the assumption that the decalibration consists in unknown gains on
each measure. We focus on {\em blind} calibration, using measures performed on
a few unknown (but sparse) signals. A naive formulation of this blind
calibration problem, using minimization, is reminiscent of blind
source separation and dictionary learning, which are known to be highly
non-convex and riddled with local minima. In the considered context, we show
that in fact this formulation can be exactly expressed as a convex optimization
problem, and can be solved using off-the-shelf algorithms. Numerical
simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach even for highly
uncalibrated measures, when a sufficient number of (unknown, but sparse)
calibrating signals is provided. We observe that the success/failure of the
approach seems to obey sharp phase transitions
3D Visual Perception for Self-Driving Cars using a Multi-Camera System: Calibration, Mapping, Localization, and Obstacle Detection
Cameras are a crucial exteroceptive sensor for self-driving cars as they are
low-cost and small, provide appearance information about the environment, and
work in various weather conditions. They can be used for multiple purposes such
as visual navigation and obstacle detection. We can use a surround multi-camera
system to cover the full 360-degree field-of-view around the car. In this way,
we avoid blind spots which can otherwise lead to accidents. To minimize the
number of cameras needed for surround perception, we utilize fisheye cameras.
Consequently, standard vision pipelines for 3D mapping, visual localization,
obstacle detection, etc. need to be adapted to take full advantage of the
availability of multiple cameras rather than treat each camera individually. In
addition, processing of fisheye images has to be supported. In this paper, we
describe the camera calibration and subsequent processing pipeline for
multi-fisheye-camera systems developed as part of the V-Charge project. This
project seeks to enable automated valet parking for self-driving cars. Our
pipeline is able to precisely calibrate multi-camera systems, build sparse 3D
maps for visual navigation, visually localize the car with respect to these
maps, generate accurate dense maps, as well as detect obstacles based on
real-time depth map extraction
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