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Franz Hlawatsch

Franz Hlawatsch

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Austria
2026
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Engineering and Technology
Austria
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
56
Citations
12716
World Ranking
4070
National Ranking
26

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
55
Citations
12291
World Ranking
2168
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to time-frequency signal processing

Overview

Franz Hlawatsch is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and has a research focus encompassing computer science and engineering. Their work spans multiple specialized areas including artificial intelligence, control and systems engineering, and computer networks and communications.

The scientist's primary research contributions are in the domain of target tracking and data fusion within sensor networks. This includes significant work on fault detection and control systems as well as distributed sensor networks and detection algorithms. Additional topics addressed by their research cover advanced statistical methods and models, Bayesian modeling and causal inference, advanced chemical sensor technologies, and underwater acoustics research.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Florian Meyer, Thomas Kropfreiter, Domenico Gaglione, Giovanni Soldi, and Paolo Braca.

The venues where their work commonly appears include arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the IEEE, Information Fusion, IET Radar Sonar & Navigation, and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

Selected recent publications by Franz Hlawatsch are:

  • "Fusion of Probability Density Functions," 2022, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "A distributed particle-PHD filter using arithmetic-average fusion of Gaussian mixture parameters," 2021, Information Fusion
  • "Bayesian information fusion and multitarget tracking for maritime situational awareness," 2020, IET Radar Sonar & Navigation
  • "Fusion of Sensor Measurements and Target-Provided Information in Multitarget Tracking," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • "An Efficient Labeled/Unlabeled Random Finite Set Algorithm for Multiobject Tracking," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

In recognition of contributions to time-frequency signal processing, they were named an IEEE Fellow in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Linear and quadratic time-frequency signal representations

    F. Hlawatsch;G.F. Boudreaux-Bartels

  • Frame-theoretic analysis of oversampled filter banks

    H. Bolcskei;F. Hlawatsch;H.G. Feichtinger

  • Wireless Communications Over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels

    Franz Hlawatsch;Gerald Matz

  • Compressive Estimation of Doubly Selective Channels in Multicarrier Systems: Leakage Effects and Sparsity-Enhancing Processing

    G. Taubock;F. Hlawatsch;D. Eiwen;H. Rauhut

  • Message Passing Algorithms for Scalable Multitarget Tracking

    Florian Meyer;Thomas Kropfreiter;Jason L. Williams;Roslyn Lau

  • A compressed sensing technique for OFDM channel estimation in mobile environments: Exploiting channel sparsity for reducing pilots

    G. Taubock;F. Hlawatsch

  • Distributed particle filtering in agent networks: A survey, classification, and comparison

    O. Hlinka;F. Hlawatsch;P. M. Djuric

  • Efficient detection algorithms for MIMO channels: a geometrical approach to approximate ML detection

    H. Artes;D. Seethaler;F. Hlawatsch

  • Likelihood Consensus and Its Application to Distributed Particle Filtering

    Ondrej Hlinka;Ondrej Slučiak;Franz Hlawatsch;Petar M. Djurić

  • A Scalable Algorithm for Tracking an Unknown Number of Targets Using Multiple Sensors

    Florian Meyer;Paolo Braca;Peter Willett;Franz Hlawatsch

  • A Belief Propagation Algorithm for Multipath-Based SLAM

    Erik Leitinger;Florian Meyer;Franz Hlawatsch;Klaus Witrisal

  • Distributed Localization and Tracking of Mobile Networks Including Noncooperative Objects

    Florian Meyer;Ondrej Hlinka;Henk Wymeersch;Erwin Riegler

  • The hyperbolic class of quadratic time-frequency representations. I. Constant-Q warping, the hyperbolic paradigm, properties, and members

    A. Papandreou;F. Hlawatsch;G.F. Boudreaux-Bartels

  • Discrete Zak transforms, polyphase transforms, and applications

    H. Bolcskei;F. Hlawatsch

  • Oversampled cosine modulated filter banks with perfect reconstruction

    H. Bolcskei;F. Hlawatsch

  • Time-frequency projection filters and time-frequency signal expansions

    F. Hlawatsch;W. Kozek

  • Fusion of Probability Density Functions

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  • Time-frequency formulation, design, and implementation of time-varying optimal filters for signal estimation

    F. Hlawatsch;G. Matz;H. Kirchauer;W. Kozek

  • Smoothed pseudo-Wigner distribution, Choi-Williams distribution, and cone-kernel representation: ambiguity-domain analysis and experimental comparison

    Franz Hlawatsch;Thulasinath G. Manickam;Rüdiger L. Urbanke;William Jones

  • Analysis, Optimization, and Implementation of Low-Interference Wireless Multicarrier Systems

    G. Matz;D. Schafhuber;K. Grochenig;M. Hartmann

  • Pulse-shaping OFDM/BFDM systems for time-varying channels: ISI/ICI analysis, optimal pulse design, and efficient implementation

    D. Schafhuber;G. Matz;F. Hlawatsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Petar M. Djuric
Petar M. Djuric Stony Brook University
Henk Wymeersch
Henk Wymeersch Chalmers University of Technology
Paolo Braca
Paolo Braca North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Yonina C. Eldar
Yonina C. Eldar Weizmann Institute of Science
Boualem Boashash
Boualem Boashash University of Queensland
Jean-Yves Tourneret
Jean-Yves Tourneret National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse

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