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Selected Publications

Journal Papers

  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, P. Zemany, “Through-the-Wall Target Localization using Dual-Frequency CW Radars,” Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Dec. 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, G. Mandapati, “Focusing and Deblurring for through-the-wall imaging under wall ambiguities,” Under review, IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., Feb. 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Noncoherent Approach to Through-the-wall Radar Localization,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 42, No. 4, Oct. 2006.
  • G. Wang and M. Amin, “Imaging through unknown walls using different standoff distances,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 4015-4025, Oct. 2006.
  • G. Wang, M. G. Amin, and Y. Zhang, "A new approach for target locations in the presence of wall ambiguity," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 301-315, Jan. 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, S. A. Kassam, “Synthetic Aperture Beamformer for imaging through a dielectric wall,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 271-283, Jan. 2005.
  • F. Ahmad, G. J. Frazer, S. A. Kassam, M. G. Amin, “Design and implementation of near-field, wideband synthetic aperture beamformers,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 206-220, Jan. 2004.

Conference Papers

  • P. Setlur, M. G. Amin, F. Ahmad “A Frequency Diverse Doppler Radar for Range-to-Motion Estimation in Urban Sensing Applications,” Proc. 2007 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, Pisa, Italy, June 2007.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “High-resolution Imaging using Capon beamformers for Urban Sensing Applications,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP07), Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
  • P. Setlur, M. Amin, F. Ahmad, “Cramer-Rao Bounds for Range and Motion Parameter Estimations using Dual Frequency Radars,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP07), Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
  • F. Ahmad, M.G. Amin, “Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging Experiments,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Applications for Public Security and Forensics (SAFE 2007), Washington, D.C., April 2007.
  • P. Setlur, F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, P. D. Zemany “Experiments on Through-the-Wall Motion Detection and Ranging,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VI Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2007.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Performance of autofocusing schemes for single target and populated scenes behind unknown walls,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Radar Sensor Technology XI Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2007.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, P. D. Zemany, “Performance analysis of dual-frequency CW radars for motion detection and ranging in urban sensing applications,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Radar Sensor Technology XI Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2007.
  • P. Setlur, M. G. Amin, F. Ahmad, “Urban target classifications using time-frequency micro-Doppler signatures,” Proc. International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA07), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2007.
  • M. Shoeb, F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Source localization in view of urban sensing applications,” Proc. International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA07), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2007.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Analyses of Autofocusing Schemes for Indoor Imaging with Unknown Walls,” Proc. Fourth IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Processing (SAM2006), Waltham, MA, July 2006.
  • S. Aviyente, F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Information Theoretic Measures for Through-the-Wall Surveillance,” Proc. Fourth IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Processing (SAM2006), Waltham, MA, July 2006.
  • M. Amin, P. Zemany, P. Setlur, F. Ahmad, “Moving Target Localization for Indoor Imaging using Dual Frequency CW Radars,” Proc. Fourth IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Processing (SAM2006), Waltham, MA, July 2006.
  • H. Estephan, F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “An Interactive Software for Real-Time Simulation of Through-the-Wall Imaging Radar,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP06), Toulouse, France, May 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “A Noncoherent Approach to Radar Localization through Unknown Walls,” Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, Verona, NY, April 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, M. Shoeb, “Indoor wireless source localization based on area constraints,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Wireless Sensing and Processing Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2006.
  • P. Setlur, F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Analysis of Micro-Doppler signals using linear FM basis decomposition,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Radar Sensor Technology X Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, P. Setlur, “Through-the-Wall Target Localization Using Dual-Frequency CW Radars,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2006.
  • L. He, S. A. Kassam, F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “Sparse stepped-frequency waveform design for through-wall radar imaging,” Proc. International Waveform Diversity and Design conference, Lihue Hawaii, Jan. 2006.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, S. A. Kassam, “A Beamforming Approach to Stepped-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Through-the-wall Radar Imaging,” Proc. First IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP05), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Dec. 13-15, 2005.
  • G. Wang and M. Amin, “A Novel Technique to Overcome Wall Ambiguities in Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging Applications,” Proc. Eighth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA05), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2005.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “A Noncoherent Approach to Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging,” Proc. Eighth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA05), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2005.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, “A Noncoherent Radar System Approach for Through-The-Wall Imaging,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies IV Conference, Vol. 5778, pp. 196-207, March-April 2005.
  • R. Dilsavor, W. Ailes, P. Rush, F. Ahmad, W. Keichel, G. Titi, M. Amin, “Experiments on wideband through the wall imaging,” (Invited Paper), Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XII Conference, Vol. 5808, pp. 196-209, March-April 2005.
  • F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin, S. A. Kassam, “Through-the-wall wideband synthetic aperture beamformer,” Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vol. 3, pp. 3059-3062, June 2004.
  • F. Ahmad, G. Frazer, S. Kassam, and M. Amin, “A New Approach for Near-Field Wideband Synthetic Aperture Beamforming,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP03), Vol. 5, pp. 89-92, April 2003.