Dr. Yimin D. Zhang, together with Dr. Shunqiao Sun from The University of Alabam, has delivered a four-hour tutorial on “Sparse Arrays and Sparse Waveforms: Design, Processing, and Applications” in 2025 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), held in Palermo, Italy, on September 8.<\/p>\n
Palermo is the capital of the beautiful island of Sicily — “the land of art, culture and beauty.”<\/p>\n
Modern sensing and communication systems employ large-scale antenna arrays to achieve high spatial resolution and enhanced directional gain. However, this comes at the cost of increased hardware complexity. Sparse arrays offer an effective solution by maintaining a large aperture with significantly reduced system complexity. Recent advances in sparse array design and processing have led to improved direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, radar imaging, and adaptive beamforming, thereby enhancing sensing accuracy and increasing communication capacity while keeping system complexity low.<\/p>\n
This tutorial exploreed sparse arrays and sparse waveforms, covering fundamental concepts, optimum design, signal processing algorithms, machine learning methods, and real-world applications. It was organized into three technical sections: (1) sparse array design and processing, (2) sparse waveform design and processing, and (3) machine learning architectures and methods for sparsity-based processing.<\/p>\n
The slides of the tutorial are available at the following links: Part I<\/a> and Part II<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dr. Zhang was also invited to deliver a keynote talk on September 12 at a satellite workshop of the conference, “Signal Processing for Autonomous System (SPAS),” on the topic of “Harnessing Frequency Diversity for Enhanced Direction-of-Arrival Estimation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Yimin D. Zhang, together with Dr. Shunqiao Sun from The University of Alabam, has delivered a four-hour tutorial on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aspl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}