technical PROGRAM

Technical Program

The SITB'24 symposium will be held at the Aula Congrescentrum (Commissiekamer 3) of TU Delft. More details: link. 

The pre-proceedings of SITB 2024 can be downloaded from here. The final proceedings will be published on the WIC website.

Monday May 27th, 2024

09h15 – 09h45       Welcome and Registration

09h45 – 09h50       Opening

09h50 – 10h50       Keynote 1: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Through the Lens of Array Signal Processing 

Emil Björnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology  [Abstract and Bio]

10h50 – 11h10       Coffee Break

11h10 – 12h30       Session 1: Communications (Session Chair: Liesbet Van der Perre, KU Leuven)

• • • • • • • • Leveraging a Digital Chirp Spread Spectrum Detector for LPWAN Wake-Up Receivers 

Pol Maistriaux, Marco Gonzalez, Jérôme Louveaux and David Bol (UCLouvain)

• Parallel processing in Walsh-Hadamard domain for ultra-broadband sub-THz communication 

Cel Thys, Rodney Martinez Alonso, and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)

• Experimental evaluation of 5G automatic beam-selection: preliminary results

Amélia Struyf, Philippe De Doncker (ULBruxelles), Dimitri Lederer (UCLouvain), and François Quitin (ULBruxelles)

• A new, fast and optimum power allocation optimization for OFDM Distributed-MIMO Optical Wireless links using LEDs

Thiago Elias Bitencourt Cunha and Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz (TU Eindhoven)

• Using the Multiplicity in the Virtual Array for Transmit and Receive Sensor Selection

Ids van der Werf, Costas Kokke (TU Delft), Richard Heusdens (TU Delft & Netherlands Defence Academy), Richard Hendriks, Geert Leus (TU Delft), and Mario Coutino (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)

12h30 – 14h10       Lunch Break and Poster Session P1

14h10 – 15h30       Session 2: Array Processing (Session Chair: Richard Hendriks, TU Delft)

• Situation-aware adaptive transmit beamforming for automotive radars

Edoardo Focante, Nitin Jonathan Myers, Geethu Joseph (TU Delft), and Ashish Pandharipande (NXP)

• Alternating Least-Squares-Based Microphone Array Parameter Estimation for A Single-Source Reverberant and Noisy Acoustic Scenario Changheng Li and Richard Hendriks (TU Delft)

• Toward Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO: Graph Neural Network Precoding for Mitigating Non-Linear PA Distortion

Thomas Feys, Liesbet Van der Perre and François Rottenberg (KU Leuven)

• A Versatile Simulator Framework Enhancing Indoor Acoustic Data Collection

Daan Delabie, Liesbet Van der Perre and Lieven Destrycker (KU Leuven)

• Beyond stationarity: Exploring cyclostationarity models in speech analysis 

Giovanni Bologni (TU Delft), Richard Heusdens (TU Delft & Netherlands Defence Academy), and Richard C. Hendriks (TU Delft)

15h30 – 16h00       Coffee Break

16h00 – 17h00       Social Event (Visit to the Royal Delft Museum)

    Address: Rotterdamseweg 196, 2628 AR Delft; about 600 meters from the symposium venue.

17h15 – 18h15       WIC General Assembly (Commissiekamer 3, same room as the symposium)

19h00 – 22h00       Gala Dinner in TU Delft Hortus Botanicus

    Address: Poortlandplein 6, 2628 BM Delft; about 800 meters from the symposium venue.

Tuesday May 28th, 2024

09h30 – 10h30       Keynote 2: From tensor-based blind source separation to tensor-based blind source matching

Lieven De Lathauwer, KU Leuven  [Abstract and Bio]

10h30 – 11h00       Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h20       Session 3: Localization and Learning (Session Chair: Geethu Joseph, TU Delft)

• Distributed Relative Localization for Multiagent Formation Control

Zhonggang Li and Raj Thilak Rajan (TU Delft)

• Maximum Likelihood Alternating Summation for Multistatic Angle-based Multitarget Localization

Martin Willame (UCLouvain & ULBruxelles), Laurent Storrer, Hasan Can Yildirim, François Horlin (ULBruxelles), and Jérôme Louveaux (UCLouvain)

• Advancing Indoor Localization: Precision Calibration of LED Tilt and Gain in Visible Light Positioning Systems

Fan Wu, Nobby Stevens, Lieven De Strycker and François Rottenberg (KU Leuven)

• ShuffleFL: Addressing Heterogeneity in Multi-Device Federated Learning

Ran Zhu, Mingkun Yang and Qing Wang (TU Delft)

• Plant Movement Sensor Solution: Leveraging BLE and LoRa for Leaf and Stem Monitoring

Sarah Goossens, Jona Cappelle, Guus Leenders, Thomas Reher, Valentijn De Smedt, Bram Van de Poel, Lieven De Strycker and Liesbet Van der Perre (KU Leuven)

12h20 – 14h00       Lunch Break and Poster Session P2

14h00 – 15h20       Session 4: Ultrasound, Imaging and Systems  (Session Chair: Ruud van Sloun)

• Latent Diffusion Models as Ultrasound Priors

Tristan Stevens, Oisín Nolan (TU Eindhoven), Jean-Luc Robert (Philips Research), and Ruud van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• From Plenoptic Images to 3D Layered Displays 

Nicolas Seznec, Armand Losfeld, Laurie Van Bogaert and Mehrdad Teratani (ULBruxelles)

• RTASP: Real-Time Actuator and Sensor Protocol

Yinze Li, Brendan Mackenzie, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels and Danny Hughes (KU Leuven)

• Random codes for continuous-variable QKD [Best Student Presentation Award]

Arpan Ray and Boris Skoric (TU Eindhoven)

• Active Inference for Closed-Loop Fetal Doppler Ultrasound

Beatrice Federici, Ruud van Sloun and Massimo Mischi (TU Eindhoven)

15h20 – 15h40 Coffee Break

15h40 – 16h00 Awards and Closing Session

List of Posters for Poster Session P1 (14)

• Lidar and Radar Fusion through Sparse Signal Separation

Peiyuan Zhai, Geethu Joseph, Nitin J. Myers (TU Delft), and Ashish Pandharipande (NXP)

• Analysis of Impulsive Interference in Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems in Electric Vehicles 

Chin-Hung Chen, Wen-Hung Huang, Boris Karanov (TU Eindhoven), Yan Wu, Alex Young (NXP), and Wim van Houtum (TU Eindhoven & NXP)

• Average entropy of Gaussian mixtures

Basheer Joudeh and Boris Skoric (TU Eindhoven)

• Binaural Beamforming Including Spatial Release from Masking

Johannes Willem de Vries (TU Delft), Steven van de Par (University of Oldenburg), Geert Leus (TU Delft), Richard Heusdens (Netherlands Defence   Academy), and Richard C. Hendriks (TU Delft)

• Sustainability Analysis of IoT Servicing Solutions

Jona Cappelle, Lieven De Strycker, and Liesbet Van der Perre (KU Leuven)

• Surgical Workflow Analysis

Christos Spiliadis, Yiheng Chang, Justin Dauwels (TU Delft), and Chavdar Bachvarov (Philips)

• Training Facial Recognition with Synthetic Faces [Best Student Paper Award]

Patrick Vine, Luuk Spreeuwers, and Una Kelly (University of Twente)

• A Feasibility Pursuit Approach to the AP Switching Problem in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Robbert Beerten, Vida Ranjbar, Hazem Sallouha and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)

• Near-Field Cell-Free Communication Networks: Performance Analysis 

Laurence Defraigne, François De Saint Moulin (UCLouvain), Charles Wiame (MIT), Claude Oestges, Luc Vandendorpe and Guillaume Thiran (UCLouvain)

• Energy saving in cell-free wireless networks 

Marion Allard (UCLouvain), Charles Wiame (MIT), Claude Oestges, Luc Vandendorpe and Jérôme Louveaux (UCLouvain)

• How to model transmit power and energy per bit in IM-DD optical wireless links

Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz, Thiago Elias Bitencourt Cunha, Xiaochen Liu and Lev Azarkh (TU Eindhoven)

• LED-to-Camera Communication in Mobile Scenarios

Runyu Feng and Qing Wang (TU Delft)

• Adaptive Ultrasound Scan-Line Selection using Temporal Diffusion Models [Best Student Presentation Award]

Oisín Nolan, Tristan S. W. Stevens, Wessel L. van Nierop, Ben Luijten and Ruud J. G. van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Off-grid ultrasound imaging by stochastic optimization

Vincent van de Schaft, Oisín Nolan, Oudom Somphone and Ruud J. G. van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

List of Posters for Poster Session P2 (14)

• Kronecker-structured Sparse Vector Recovery with Application to IRS-MIMO Channel Estimation

Yanbin He and Geethu Joseph (TU Delft)

• Maximum Information Line-scanning by Anatomical Manifold Tracking 

Wessel L. van Nierop, Oisín Nolan, Ben Luijten and Ruud J.G. van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Denoising Diffusion Restoration Models for Ultrasound Reconstruction Using Compact Singular Value Decomposition

Sem N. Koenen, Oisín I. Nolan, Vincent van de Schaft and Ruud J.G. van Sloun  (TU Eindhoven)

• Variational Ultrasound Channel Data Compression with a Scale Hyperprior 

Beatrice Federici, Massimo Mischi and Ruud van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Attention on Sleep Stage Specific Characteristics

Iris Huijben (TU Eindhoven & Onera Health), Sebastiaan Overeem, Merel van Gilst (TU Eindhoven & Sleep Medicine Center Kempenhaeghe), and Ruud van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Score-based Generative Modeling for Interference Mitigation in Automotive FMCW Radar 

Xinyi Wei (TU Eindhoven), Jeroen Overdevest, Jun Li, Jihwan Youn, Satish Ravindran (NXP), and Ruud J.G. van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Deep Unfolding for Sparse Distance Recovery in PMCW MIMO Automotive Radar

Jiaqi Ji, Jeroen Overdevest (TU Eindhoven & NXP), Arie G.C. Koppelaar, Ashish Pandharipande (NXP), Harm J.W. Belt and Ruud J.G. van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Residual Quantization with Implicit Neural Codebooks

Iris Huijben (TU Eindhoven & Meta), Matthijs Douze, Matthew Muckley, Ruud van Sloun and Jakob Verbeek (TU Eindhoven)

• Anomaly Detection for  MRSI  Using Predictability Modeling 

Julian P. Merkofer, Roelof G. Hup, Alex A. Bhogal, Rik Vullings, Ruud J.G. van Sloun (TU Eindhoven)

• Gaussian Process State-Space Modeling for Learning in High-Dimensional Dynamical Systems

Anurodh Mishra and Raj Thilak Rajan (TU Delft)

• Split Inference on Networked Microcontrollers

Junyu Lu and Qing Wang (TU Delft)

• Unified Framework for Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems: Localization, Control, and Collision Avoidance

Ellen H. J. Riemens and Raj Thilak Rajan (TU Delft)

• Toward Real-time Depth-based 3D Layered Display

Eva Dubar, Laurie Van Bogaert, Armand Losfeld and Mehrdad Teratani (ULBruxelles)

• Extracting brain activity using the tensor block term decomposition on functional ultrasound data 

Sofia-Eirini Kotti and Borbála Hunyadi (TU Delft)