Publications

Book Chapters

1. B.Yonel, E. Mason, ``Deep learning for SAR focusing," Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing, Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/C2024-0-01286-6, Jan. 2026.

2. S. Kazemi, E. Mason, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for passive synthetic aperture radar imaging," Deep Neural Network Design for Radar Applications, SciTech Publishing, Dec. 2020.

Journal Publications

1. B. Yonel, N. Choudhury, B. Yazici, ``Super-Resolution SAR Ground Moving Target Imaging via Atomic Norm Minimization," accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, Jun. 2026.

2. M. Heredia Conde, C. Nafortina, S. Steele, B. Yonel, V. Chebrolu, H.B. Sequeira, P. Vouras, ``The IEEE Signal Processing Society's Leading Role in Developing Standards for Computational Imaging and Sensing: Part I," accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Apr. 2026.

3. N. Choudhury, B. Yonel and B. Yazici, "Robust Phaseless Imaging via Reverse Kullback-Leibler Divergence—Part 2: Robustness Analysis and Performance Evaluation," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 35059-35067, 1 Nov.1, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3456824 

4. N. Choudhury, B. Yonel and B. Yazici, "Robust Phaseless Imaging via Reverse Kullback-Leibler Divergence—Part 1: Reconstruction Methods," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 35049-35058, 1 Nov., 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3456827.

5. B. Yonel, N. Choudhury and B. Yazici. ``Phaseless multi-static synthetic aperture radar imaging,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 6134-6147, May 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3396049.

6. S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Interferometric passive radar imaging with deep denoising priors," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 145-156, Feb. 2024. 

7. S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Unrolled Wirtinger flow with deep priors for phaseless imaging," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 8, pp. 609-625, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2022.3189217.

8. B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``A spectral estimation framework for phase retrieval via Bregman divergence minimization," SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 15.2, pp. 491-520, Feb. 2022.

9. S. Thammakhoune, B. Yonel, E. Mason, B. Yazici and Y. C. Eldar. ``Phase-space function recovery for moving target imaging in SAR by convex optimization," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 7, pp. 1018-1030, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2021.3111580.

10. B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``A deterministic theory for exact non-convex phase retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68,  pp. 4612-4626, Jul. 2020.

11. B. Yonel, I. Son, and B. Yazici. ``Exact multi-static interferometric imaging via generalized Wirtinger flow," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging,  vol. 6, pp. 711-726, Jan. 2020.

12. B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``A generalization of Wirtinger flow for exact interferometric inversion," SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol 12.4, pp. 2119-2164, Dec. 2019.

13. B. Yonel, E. Mason, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for waveform estimation and imaging in passive radar," IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 13.6, pp. 915-926, Jan. 2019.

14. B. Yonel, E. Mason, and B. Yazıcı. ``Deep learning for passive synthetic aperture radar," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 12.1, pp. 90-103, Dec. 2017.

Conference Publications

1. N. Choudhury, B. Yonel, B. Yazici, ``Passive Moving Emitter Localization and Tracking via Robust PCA," to appear in Proceedings of 2026 IEEE Radar Conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA, May 2026.

2. P. Vouras, B. Yonel, A. Artusio-Glimpse, ``Doppler Tomography Using Rydberg Sensors," to appear in Proceedings of 2026 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), Albany, NY, USA, May 2026.

3. B. Yonel, K. Membe, E. Mason, ``Online Learning for Adaptive Radar Coincidence Imaging," to appear in Proceedings of 2026 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), Albany, NY, USA, May 2026.

4. B. Yonel, N. Choudhury, B. Yazici, ``Super-resolution SAR Ground Moving Target Imaging and Tracking,"  to appear in Proceedings of 2026 SPIE Defense + Security Conference, National Harbor, MD, USA, Apr. 2026.

5. N. Choudhury, B. Yonel and B. Yazici, ``Robust Phaseless Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging," 2025 IEEE International Radar Conference (RADAR), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5.

6. B. Yonel, ``Phaseless Transmitter Synchronization for Multi-Static Synthetic Aperture Imaging," 2025 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), College Park, MD, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5.

7. P. Vouras and B. Yonel, ``Frequency-Stepped Waveform Design for an Array of Quantum Sensors," 2025 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), College Park, MD, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5.

8. N. Choudhury, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici ``Phaseless multistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging in the presence of synchronization error", Proc. SPIE 13456, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XXXII, 1345609, May 2025.

9. B. Yonel, N. Choudhury, and B. Yazici, ``Phaseless Radar Coincidence Imaging via Low-Rank Matrix Recovery Theory," appeared in the ICEAA-IEEE APWC Conference, Sep. 2024.

10. P. Vouras and B. Yonel, ``New Standards in Support of Market Solutions to Climate Change," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 274-278.

11. B. Yonel, N. A. Choudhury and B. Yazici. ``Phaseless Multi-Static Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging," 2024 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), Boulder, CO, USA, May 2024, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/CISA60639.2024.10576249.

12. N. A. Choudhury, B. Yonel and B. Yazici. ``A Robust Phaseless Imaging Approach Using Reverse Kullback Leibler Divergence and Wirtinger Flow," 2024 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), Boulder, CO, USA, May 2024, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/CISA60639.2024.10576432. 

13. B. Yonel, B. Yazici and S. Thammakhoune. ``Single-Channel Super-Resolution SAR-GMTI via Atomic Norm Minimization," 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24), Denver, CO, USA, May 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548226.

14. S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep denoising prior-based spectral estimation for phaseless synthetic aperture radar," in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Workshop on Signal Processing for Synthetic Apertures, Rhodes Island, Greece, Jun. 2023.

15. S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning based synthetic aperture imaging in the presence of phase errors," 2023 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf23), San Antonio, TX, USA, May 2023.

16. S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep phaseless imaging via Wirtinger flow with decoding prior," 2022 56th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, IEEE, Oct. 2022.

17. S. Thammakhoune, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Passive moving target imaging via generalized Wirtinger flow,'' 2022 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf22), 2022, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2248738.2022.9764302.

18. A. Akhtar, B. Yonel and B. Yazici. ``Passive multi-static radar imaging with prior information," 2021 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf21), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2147009.2021.9455258.

19. S. Thammakhoune, B. Yonel, E. Mason, B. Yazici and Y. C. Eldar. ``Moving target imaging for synthetic aperture radar via RPCA," 2021 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf21), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2147009.2021.9455293.

20. I. Son, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Multi-static passive radar imaging using generalized Wirtinger flow," 2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS),  IEEE, Jun. 2019.

21. S. Kazemi, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for direct automatic target recognition from SAR data," 2019 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf), IEEE, Apr. 2019.

22. B. Yonel, E. Mason, and B. Yazici. ``Phaseless passive synthetic aperture radar imaging via Wirtinger flow," 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, IEEE, Oct. 2018.

23. B. Yonel, E. Mason and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for waveform estimation in passive synthetic aperture radar," 2018 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf18), Apr. 2018, pp. 1395-1400.

24. B. Yonel, E. Mason, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for waveform estimation in passive synthetic aperture radar imaging," Proc. SPIE 10647, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XXV, 106470E, Apr. 2018.

25. B. Yonel, I. Son, and B. Yazici. ``Generalized Wirtinger flow for passive polarimetric reconstruction of extended dipole targets," 2018 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf18), IEEE, Apr. 2018.

26. E. Mason, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for SAR image formation," Proc. SPIE 10201, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XXIV, Apr. 2017.

27. E. Mason, B. Yonel, and B. Yazici. ``Deep learning for radar," 2017 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf), IEEE, Apr. 2017.