Publications

Preprints:

1. W. Zheng, Z. Yang*, and X. Wu, "Reweighted atomic norm minimization for line spectral estimation with one-bit samples," 2025.

2. W. Wang, Z. Yang*, and J. Shi, "Fast and accurate two-dimentional direction-of-arrival estimation using a modified projected descent algorithm," 2025. 

3. H. Xu and Z. Yang*, "Bit efficient Toeplitz covariance estimation," 2024.

4. Y. Chu, W. Wang, S. Liu, Z. Wei, and Z. Yang*, "Downlink-uplink collaborative channel estimation for TDD massive MIMO communications," 2024.

5. K. Wang, Z. Yang*, Z. Wei, "Fast and accurate traffic data recovery based on low-rankness and spatio-temporal smoothness," 2024.

6. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, J.-F. Cai, and Z. Xu, "Fast and provable spectral super-resolution via low-rank Hankel-Toeplitz matirx factorization," 2024.

7. Y.-L. Mo, W. Wang, J. Shi, and Z. Yang*, "Multichannel sparse recovery for constant modulus signals via convex optimization," 2024.

8. W. Wang and Z. Yang*, "Sign-aided unlimited sampling for robust line spectral estimation," 2024.

9. W. Chen, Z. Yang, Z. Wei, D.W.K. Ng, and M. Matthaiou, "RIS-aided MIMO Beamforming: Piece-Wise Near-field Channel Model," arXiv:2406.14939, 2024.

10. T. Jiao, Y. Geng, Z. Wei, K. Wan, Z. Yang*, and G. Caire, "Information-theoretic limits of bistatic integrated sensing and communication," arXiv:2306.06648, 2023.

Book Chapter:

• Z. Yang, J. Li, P. Stoica, and L. Xie, "Sparse Methods for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation," in Academic Press Library in Signal Processing Volume 7, R. Chellappa and S. Theodoridis, Eds. Academic Press, 2018, pp. 509–581. [pdf]

Journal Publications:

1. Y. Ding, J. Shi, Z. Yang, Z. Zhang, Y. Liu, X. Li, "D2CN: Distributed deep convolutional network,"  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2025.

2. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, Z. Wei, R. Schober, and Z. Xu, "COFFEE: Covariance fitting and focusing for wideband direction-of-arrival estimation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 5659-5674, 2024.

3. Y. Chu, Z. Wei, Z. Yang*, and D. W. K. Ng, "Channel estimation for RIS-aided MIMO systems: A partially decoupled atomic norm minimization approach," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 16048-16061, 2024.

4. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, and Z. Xu, "Multichannel frequency estimation with constant amplitude via convex structured low-rank approximation," SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 1643–1668, 2024.

5. S. Gao, W. Wang, M. Wang, Z. Zhang, Z. Yang, X. Qiu, B. Zhang, and Y. Wu. "A robust super-resolution gridless imaging framework for UAV-borne SAR tomography," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 5210917, 2024.

6. Z. Yang, Y.-L. Mo, and Z. Xu, "Separation-free spectral super-resolution via convex optimization," Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 71, pp. 101650, 2024. [correction]

7. Z. Wei, F. Liu, C. Liu, Z. Yang, D. W. K. Ng, and R. Schober, "Integrated sensing, navigation, and communication for secure UAV networks with a mobile eavesdropper," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 7, 7060–7078, 2024.

8. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, Z. Wei, and Z. Xu, "Direction-of-arrival estimation for constant modulus signals using a structured matrix recovery technique," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 3117–3130, 2024.

9. Z. Yang, X. Wu, and Z. Xu, "New low-rank optimization model and algorithms for spectral compressed sensing," Science China Mathematics, vol. 67, DOI: 10.1007/s11425-021-2151-0, 2024.

10. Z. Yang and K. Wang, "Nonasymptotic performance analysis of direct-augmentation and spatial-smoothing ESPRIT for localization of more sources than sensors using sparse arrays," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 9379–9389, 2023.

11. 杨在，吴训蒙，徐宗本，“谱压缩感知中的低秩结构矩阵恢复框架”，中山大学学报，第62卷，第5期，第53-58页，2023. (in Chinese, invited)

12. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, and Z. Xu, "Multichannel frequency estimation in challenging scenarios via structured matrix embedding and recovery (StruMER)," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, 3242–3256, 2023.

13. Z. Yang, X. Chen, and X. Wu, "A robust and statistically efficient maximum-likelihood method for DOA estimation using sparse linear arrays," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 59, no. 5, 6798–6812, 2023.

14. Y. Chu, Z. Wei, and Z. Yang*, "New reweighted atomic norm minimization approach for line spectral estimation," Signal Processing, vol. 206, pp. 108897, May 2023.

15. Z. Yang, "Nonasymptotic performance analysis of ESPRIT and spatial-smoothing ESPRIT," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 666–681, 2023.

16. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, P. Stoica, and Z. Xu, "Maximum likelihood line spectral estimation in the signal domain: a rank-constrained structured matrix recovery approach," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 4156–4169, 2022.

17. J. Shi, Z. Yang*, and Y. Liu, "On parameter identifiability of diversity-smoothing-based MIMO radar," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 1660–1675, 2022.

18. R. A. Horn and Z. Yang, "Rank of a Hadamard product," Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 591, pp. 87–98, 2020.

19. Z. Yang, P. Stoica, and J. Tang, "Source resolvability of spatial-smoothing-based subspace methods: A Hadamard product perspective," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 2543–2553, 2019.

20. Z. Yang, J. Tang, Y. C. Eldar, and L. Xie, "On the sample complexity of multichannel frequency estimation via convex optimization," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 2302–2315, 2019.

21. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Fast convex optimization method for frequency estimation with prior knowledge in all dimensions," Signal Processing, vol. 142, pp. 271–280, 2018.

22. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Frequency-selective Vandermonde decomposition of Toeplitz matrices with applications," Signal Processing, vol. 142, pp. 157–167, 2018. [pdf, Matlab code]

23. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "On gridless sparse methods for multi-snapshot direction of arrival estimation," Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 3370–3384, 2017.

24. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Exact joint sparse frequency recovery via optimization methods," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 64, no. 19, pp. 5145–5157, Oct 1, 2016. [pdf, Matlab code]

25. Z. Yang, L. Xie and P. Stoica, "Vandermonde decomposition of multilevel Toeplitz matrices with application to multidimensional super-resolution," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 3685–3701, June 2016. [pdf, Matlab code]

26. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Enhancing sparsity and resolution via reweighted atomic norm minimization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 995–1006, Feb 15, 2016. [pdf]

27. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "On gridless sparse methods for line spectral estimation from complete and incomplete data," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 3139–3153, June 15, 2015. [pdf]

28. B. Huang, L. Xie, and Z. Yang, "TDOA-based source localization with distance-dependent noises," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 468–480, Jan 2015.

29. Z. Yang, L. Xie, and C. Zhang, "A discretization-free sparse and parametric approach for linear array signal processing," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 19, pp. 4959–4973, Oct 1, 2014. [pdf, Matlab code]

30. A. Maleki, L. Anitori, Z. Yang, and R.G. Baraniuk, "Asymptotic analysis of complex LASSO via complex approximate message passing (CAMP)," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 4290–4308, 2013.

31. Z. Yang, L. Xie, and C. Zhang, "Variational Bayesian algorithm for quantized compressed sensing," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 2815–2824, 2013. [pdf, Matlab code]

32. Z. Yang, L. Xie, and C. Zhang, "Off-grid direction of arrival estimation using sparse Bayesian inference," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 38–43, 2013. [pdf, Matlab code]

33. Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and L. Xie, "Robustly stable signal recovery in compressed sensing with structured matrix perturbation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 9, pp. 4658–4671, 2012. [pdf, Typos, Matlab code]

34. Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and L. Xie, "On phase transition of compressed sensing in the complex domain," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 47–50, 2012. [pdf]

35. Z. Yang, C. Zhang, J. Deng, and W. Lu, "Orthonormal expansion l1-minimization algorithms for compressed sensing," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 6285–6290, 2011. [pdf, Matlab code]

Conference Publications:

1. W. Wang and Z. Yang, "On noise-sensitivity of unlimited sampling in line spectral estimation," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.

2. X. Wu, Z. Yang, and Z. Xu, "Low-complexity algorithms for multichannel spectral super-resolution," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.

3. K. Wang, Z. Yang, Z. Wei, "Fast spatio-temporal signal recovery based on differential smoothness regularization," in International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICDISP), 2024.

4. Y.-L. Mo, Z. Yang, W. Wang, and X. Wu, "Multichannel sparse recovery for constant modulus signals via \ell_{∞,1} minimization," in International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICDISP), 2024.

5. X. Wu, Z. Yang, Z. Wei, R. Schober, and Z. Xu, "Wideband direction-of-arrival estimation via covariance fitting and focusing," European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024.

6. X. Wu, Z. Yang, Z. Xu, "Direction-of-arrival estimation for constant modulus signals via convex optimization," 1-5, Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 2024.

7. X. Wu, Z. Yang, Z. Wei, R. Schober, and Z. Xu, "Wideband direction-of-arrival estimation via covariance fitting and focusing," 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024.

8. W. Chen, Z. Wei, Z. Yang, D.W.K. Ng, and M. Matthaiou, "Beamforming design for RIS-aided MIMO communication: a piece-wise near-field model," IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2024.

9. T. Jiao, Y. Geng, and Z. Yang, "Blahut-Arimoto algorithm for computing capacity region of Gaussian vector broadcast channels," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2024.

10. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, and Z. Xu, "Direction-of-arrival estimation for constant modulus signals via convex optimization," in PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 2024.

11. W. Zheng and Z. Yang*, "Reweighted atomic norm minimization for one-bit multichannel spectral compressed sensing," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.

12. S. Ge, Z. Wei, and Z. Yang*, "Target signal power improvement and clutter suppression via beamforming for integrated sensing and communication systems," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.

13. W. Wang, Z. Yang*, and X. Wu, "On unique localization of uncorrelated constant-modulus sources using sparse linear arrays," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.

14. Y. Chu, Z. Wei, Z. Yang*, and D. W. K. Ng, "Channel estimation for RIS-aided MIMO systems via partially decoupled atomic norm minimization," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023.

15. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, Z. Wei, and Z. Xu, "Source localization for constant modulus signals using a structured matrix recovery technique (SMART)," IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) Workshop, 2023.

16. Z. Yang and K. Wang, "Nonasymptotic analysis of direct-augmentation ESPRIT for localization of more sources than sensors using sparse arrays," IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) Workshop, 2023.

17. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, J.-F. Cai, and Z. Xu, "Spectral super-resolution on the unit circle via gradient descent," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.

18. X. Chen and Z. Yang*, "Localizing more sources than sensors in presence of coherent sources," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5013–5017, 2022. 

19. Z. Yang and X. Chen, "Maximum likelihood direction-of-arrival estimation via rank-constrained ADMM," CIE IEEE Conference on Radar, pp. 2376–2380, 2021.

20. X. Wu, Z. Yang*, and Z. Xu, "A Nonconvex Approach for Line Spectral Estimation," CIE IEEE Conference on Radar, pp. 2034–2038, 2021.

21. Z. Yang and X. Wu, "Forward-backward Hankel matrix fitting for spectral super-resolution," 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1886–1990, 2020.

22. Z. Yang and P. Stoica, "Hadamard product perspective on source resolvability of spatial-smoothing-based subspace methods," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4135-4139, 2019.

23. Z. Yang, Y.C. Eldar, and L. Xie, "Average case analysis of compressive multichannel frequency estimation using atomic norm minimization," IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Nov 2018.

24. Z. Yang, "Direction-of-arrival estimation using atomic norm methods: Affects of multiple snapshots and coherent sources," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), March 2018.

25. Z. Yang, "A gridless sparse method for super-resolution of harmonics," 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 2096–2100, Aug. 2017.

26. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Spectral compressed sensing of real spikes," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB), Oct 2016. [invited]

27. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Vandermonde decomposition on intervals and its use for continuous compressed sensing," 35th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 4877–4882, July 2016.

28. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "On gridless sparse methods for multi-snapshot DOA estimation," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3236–3240, March 2016.

29. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "A weighted atomic norm approach to spectral super-resolution with probabilistic priors," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4598–4602, March 2016.

30. Z. Yang, L. Xie, and P. Stoica, "Generalized Vandermonde decomposition and its use for multi-dimensional super-resolution," 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 2011–2015, June 2015.

31. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Achieving high resolution for super-resolution via reweighted atomic norm minimization," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3646–3650, April 2015.

32. P. Stoica, G. Tang, Z. Yang, and D. Zachariah, "Gridless compressive-sensing methods for frequency estimation: Points of tangency and links to basics," 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1831–1835, Sept. 2014.

33. B. Huang, L. Xie, and Z. Yang, "Analysis of TOA localization with heteroscedastic noises," 33rd Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 327–332, July 2014.

34. Z. Yang and L. Xie, "Continuous compressed sensing with a single or multiple measurement vectors," IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), pp. 308–311, June 2014. (Matlab code)

35. C. Zhang, Z. Yang, and L. Xie, "The l1 measure of image reconstruction subject to motion corrupted k-space data," 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), pp. 1133–1137, June 2013.

36. Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and L. Xie, "Sparse MRI for motion correction," International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), pp. 962–965, April 2013.

37. Z. Yang, L. Xie, and C. Zhang, "Accurate signal recovery in quantized compressed sensing," 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, pp. 2531–2536, July 2012.

38. Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and L. Xie, "Stable signal recovery in compressed sensing with a structured matrix perturbation," 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2737–2740, March 2012.

39. J. Deng, Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and W. Lu, "Orthonormal expansion l1-minimization for compressed sensing in MRI," 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2297–2300, Sept. 2011.

40. Z. Yang and C. Zhang, "Sparsity-undersampling tradeoff of compressed sensing in the complex domain," 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3668–3671, May 2011.

Ph.D Thesis: 

• Z. Yang, "Analysis, Algorithms and Applications of Compressed Sensing," PhD dissertation, Nanyang Technological University, 2014. [pdf]

Technical Reports:

1. Z. Yang, L. Xie, and C. Zhang, "Bayesian compressed sensing with new sparsity-inducing prior," 2013.

2. Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and L. Xie, "Robust compressive phase retrieval via L1 minimization with application to image reconstruction," 2013. [pdf]