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Publications (37)

eess.SP2020

Angle-Dependent Phase Shifter Model for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Does the Angle-Reciprocity Hold?

Weicong Chen, Lin Bai, Wankai Tang +3

The existing phase shifter models adopted for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have ignored the electromagnetic (EM) waves propagation behavior, thus cannot reveal practi…

eess.IV2020

DepthNet: Real-Time LiDAR Point Cloud Depth Completion for Autonomous Vehicles

Lin Bai, Yiming Zhao, Mahdi Elhousni +1

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily on sensors such as camera and LiDAR, which provide real-time information about their surroundings for the tasks of perception, planning and control…

cs.IT2024

Large and Small Deviations for Statistical Sequence Matching

Lin Zhou, Qianyun Wang, Jingjing Wang +2

We revisit the problem of statistical sequence matching between two databases of sequences initiated by Unnikrishnan (TIT 2015) and derive theoretical performance guarantees for th…

eess.SP2018

A CNN Accelerator on FPGA Using Depthwise Separable Convolution

Lin Bai, Yiming Zhao, Xinming Huang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely deployed in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition because of their high accuracy. However, large convolution o…

cs.CV2023

GraphAlign: Enhancing Accurate Feature Alignment by Graph matching for Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection

Ziying Song, Haiyue Wei, Lin Bai +2

LiDAR and cameras are complementary sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, it is challenging to explore the unnatural interaction between point clouds and…

eess.SP2019

ChipNet: Real-Time LiDAR Processing for Drivable Region Segmentation on an FPGA

Yecheng Lyu, Lin Bai, Xinming Huang

This paper presents a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design of a segmentation algorithm based on convolutional neural network (CNN) that can process light detection and rangi…

cs.IT2023

Achievable Refined Asymptotics for Successive Refinement Using Gaussian Codebooks

Lin Bai, Zhuangfei Wu, Lin Zhou

We study the mismatched successive refinement problem where one uses Gaussian codebooks to compress an arbitrary memoryless source with successive minimum Euclidean distance encodi…

eess.SP2020

A Novel Received Signal Strength Assisted Perspective-three-Point Algorithm for Indoor Visible Light Positioning

Lin Bai, Yang Yang, Chunyan Feng +1

In this paper, a received signal strength assisted Perspective-three-Point positioning algorithm (R-P3P) is proposed for visible light positioning (VLP) systems. The basic idea of…

cs.CV2021

A Surface Geometry Model for LiDAR Depth Completion

Yiming Zhao, Lin Bai, Ziming Zhang +1

LiDAR depth completion is a task that predicts depth values for every pixel on the corresponding camera frame, although only sparse LiDAR points are available. Most of the existing…

cs.IT2022

Efficient User Scheduling for Uplink Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Communication

Lina Zhu, Lin Bai, Lin Zhou +1

Due to increasing demands of seamless connection and massive information exchange across the world, the integrated satellite-terrestrial communication systems develop rapidly. To s…

cs.CV2022

Enabling 3D Object Detection with a Low-Resolution LiDAR

Lin Bai, Yiming Zhao, Xinming Huang

Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used in autonomous vehicles for perception and localization. However, the cost of a high-resolution LiDAR is still prohibitively…

eess.IV2025

mViSE: A Visual Search Engine for Analyzing Multiplex IHC Brain Tissue Images

Liqiang Huang, Rachel W. Mills, Saikiran Mandula +7

Whole-slide multiplex imaging of brain tissue generates massive information-dense images that are challenging to analyze and require custom software. We present an alternative quer…

cs.HC2025

iLearnRobot: An Interactive Learning-Based Multi-Modal Robot with Continuous Improvement

Kohou Wang, ZhaoXiang Liu, Lin Bai +5

It is crucial that robots' performance can be improved after deployment, as they are inherently likely to encounter novel scenarios never seen before. This paper presents an innova…

cs.CV2021

FIDNet: LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Fully Interpolation Decoding

Yiming Zhao, Lin Bai, Xinming Huang

Projecting the point cloud on the 2D spherical range image transforms the LiDAR semantic segmentation to a 2D segmentation task on the range image. However, the LiDAR range image i…

cs.IT2015

Iterative Joint Beamforming Training with Constant-Amplitude Phased Arrays in Millimeter-Wave Communication

Zhenyu Xiao, Lin Bai, Jinho Choi

In millimeter-wave communications (MMWC), in order to compensate for high propagation attenuation, phased arrays are favored to achieve array gain by beamforming, where transmittin…

cs.IT2025

Achievable Second-Order Asymptotics for MAC and RAC with Additive Non-Gaussian Noise

Yiming Wang, Lin Bai, Zhuangfei Wu +1

We first study the two-user additive noise multiple access channel (MAC) where the noise distribution is arbitrary. For such a MAC, we use spherical codebooks and either joint near…

eess.SP2025

Collaborative Secret and Covert Communications for Multi-User Multi-Antenna Uplink UAV Systems: Design and Optimization

Jinpeng Xu, Lin Bai, Xin Xie +1

Motivated by diverse secure requirements of multi-user in UAV systems, we propose a collaborative secret and covert transmission method for multi-antenna ground users to unmanned a…

cs.RO2017

Real-Time Road Segmentation Using LiDAR Data Processing on an FPGA

Yecheng Lyu, Lin Bai, Xinming Huang

This paper presents the FPGA design of a convolutional neural network (CNN) based road segmentation algorithm for real-time processing of LiDAR data. For autonomous vehicles, it is…

cs.IT2024

The Dispersion of Broadcast Channels With Degraded Message Sets Using Gaussian Codebooks

Zhuangfei Wu, Lin Bai, Jinpeng Xu +2

We study the two-user broadcast channel with degraded message sets and derive second-order achievability rate regions. Specifically, the channel noises are not necessarily Gaussian…

cs.LG2018

Learning More Robust Features with Adversarial Training

Shuangtao Li, Yuanke Chen, Yanlin Peng +1

In recent years, it has been found that neural networks can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which is a potential safety hazard in some safety-critical applications. Many…

cs.IT2023

Achievable Error Exponents for Two-Phase Multiple Classification

Lin Zhou, Jun Diao, Lin Bai

We revisit -ary classification of Gutman (TIT 1989), where one is tasked to determine whether a testing sequence is generated with the same distribution as one of the traini…

cs.IT2016

Achievable Sum Rates of Half- and Full-Duplex Bidirectional OFDM Communication Links

Zhenyu Xiao, Yao Li, Lin Bai +1

While full-duplex (FD) transmission has the potential to double the system capacity, its substantial benefit can be offset by the self-interference (SI) and non-ideality of practic…

cs.CV2022

The Outcome of the 2022 Landslide4Sense Competition: Advanced Landslide Detection from Multi-Source Satellite Imagery

Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Yonghao Xu, Hengwei Zhao +12

The scientific outcomes of the 2022 Landslide4Sense (L4S) competition organized by the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI) are presented here. The obj…

eess.SP2023

Machine Learning for Large-Scale Optimization in 6G Wireless Networks

Yandong Shi, Lixiang Lian, Yuanming Shi +6

The sixth generation (6G) wireless systems are envisioned to enable the paradigm shift from "connected things" to "connected intelligence", featured by ultra high density, large-sc…

cs.IT2024

Successive Refinement of Shannon Cipher System Under Maximal Leakage

Zhuangfei Wu, Lin Bai, Lin Zhou

We study the successive refinement setting of Shannon cipher system (SCS) under the maximal leakage secrecy metric for discrete memoryless sources under bounded distortion measures…

eess.SP2020

A High Coverage Camera Assisted Received Signal Strength Ratio Algorithm for Indoor Visible Light Positioning

Lin Bai, Yang Yang, Chunyan Feng +2

In this paper, a high coverage algorithm termed enhanced camera assisted received signal strength ratio (eCA-RSSR) positioning algorithm is proposed for visible light positioning (…

cs.CV2022

A Near Sensor Edge Computing System for Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Lin Bai, Yiming Zhao, Xinming Huang

Point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted attentions due to its robustness to light condition. This makes it an ideal semantic solution for autonomous driving. However, consi…

cs.CV2025

Weak-to-Strong Generalization Enables Fully Automated De Novo Training of Multi-head Mask-RCNN Model for Segmenting Densely Overlapping Cell Nuclei in Multiplex Whole-slice Brain Images

Lin Bai, Xiaoyang Li, Liqiang Huang +7

We present a weak to strong generalization methodology for fully automated training of a multi-head extension of the Mask-RCNN method with efficient channel attention for reliable…

eess.SP2020

Novel Visible Light Communication Assisted Perspective-Four-Line Algorithm for Indoor Localization

Lin Bai

In this paper, we propose a novel visible light communication (VLC) assisted Perspective-fourLine algorithm (V-P4L) for practical indoor localization. The basic idea of V-P4L is to…

cs.IT2022

Resolution Limits of Non-Adaptive 20 Questions Search for Multiple Targets

Lin Zhou, Lin Bai, Alfred Hero

We study the problem of simultaneous search for multiple targets over a multidimensional unit cube and derive fundamental resolution limits of non-adaptive querying procedures usin…

cs.CV2019

Road Segmentation Using CNN and Distributed LSTM

Yecheng Lyu, Lin Bai, Xinming Huang

In automated driving systems (ADS) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), an efficient road segmentation is necessary to perceive the drivable region and build an occupancy…

eess.IV2021

RoadNet-RT: High Throughput CNN Architecture and SoC Design for Real-Time Road Segmentation

Lin Bai, Yecheng Lyu, Xinming Huang

In recent years, convolutional neural network has gained popularity in many engineering applications especially for computer vision. In order to achieve better performance, often m…

cs.IT2022

An Improved EPA based Receiver Design for Uplink LDPC Coded SCMA System

Lingyun Chai, Zilong Liu, Pei Xiao +2

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is an emerging paradigm for efficient enabling of massive connectivity in future machine-type communications (MTC). In this letter, we conceive t…

eess.SP2020

A Unified Hardware Architecture for Convolutions and Deconvolutions in CNN

Lin Bai, Yecheng Lyu, Xinming Huang

In this paper, a scalable neural network hardware architecture for image segmentation is proposed. By sharing the same computing resources, both convolution and deconvolution opera…

eess.IV2019

An Interactive LiDAR to Camera Calibration

Yecheng Lyu, Lin Bai, Mahdi Elhousni +1

Recent progress in the automated driving system (ADS) and advanced driver assistant system (ADAS) has shown that the combined use of 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and the…

cs.SI2024

VGA: Vision and Graph Fused Attention Network for Rumor Detection

Lin Bai, Caiyan Jia, Ziying Song +1

With the development of social media, rumors have been spread broadly on social media platforms, causing great harm to society. Beside textual information, many rumors also use man…

eess.SP2020

PointNet on FPGA for Real-Time LiDAR Point Cloud Processing

Lin Bai, Yecheng Lyu, Xin Xu +1

LiDAR sensors have been widely used in many autonomous vehicle modalities, such as perception, mapping, and localization. This paper presents an FPGA-based deep learning platform f…