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  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communications and localization

Overview

Zhi Tian is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work covers various topics such as Advanced Neural Network Applications, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques, Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection.

Publication venues where Zhi Tian frequently publishes include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Significant recent papers include:

  • FCOS: A Simple and Strong Anchor-free Object Detector, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Twins: Revisiting the Design of Spatial Attention in Vision Transformers, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conditional Positional Encodings for Vision Transformers, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SegViT: Semantic Segmentation with Plain Vision Transformers, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Joint Optimization of Communications and Federated Learning Over the Air, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Frequent coauthors with whom Zhi Tian has collaborated include:

  • Chunhua Shen
  • Yue Wang
  • Hao Chen
  • Xin Fan
  • Yan Huo

Zhi Tian was awarded the title of IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communications and localization.

Best Publications

  • Localization via ultra-wideband radios: a look at positioning aspects for future sensor networks

    S. Gezici;Zhi Tian;G.B. Giannakis;H. Kobayashi

  • Compressed Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radios

    Zhi Tian;G.B. Giannakis

  • A Wavelet Approach to Wideband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios

    Zhi Tian;Georgios B. Giannakis

  • Localization via Ultra- Wideband Radios

    Sinan Gezici;Zhi Tian;Georgios B. Biannakis;Hisashi Kobayashi

  • Distributed Compressive Spectrum Sensing in Cooperative Multihop Cognitive Networks

    Fanzi Zeng;Chen Li;Zhi Tian

  • Cyclic Feature Detection With Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Wideband Spectrum Sensing

    Zhi Tian;Y. Tafesse;B. M. Sadler

  • Optimal waveform design for UWB radios

    Xianren Wu;Zhi Tian;T.N. Davidson;G.B. Giannakis

  • Compressed Wideband Sensing in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks

    Zhi Tian

  • Decentralized Sparse Signal Recovery for Compressive Sleeping Wireless Sensor Networks

    Qing Ling;Zhi Tian

  • A recursive least squares implementation for LCMP beamforming under quadratic constraint

    Zhi Tian;K.L. Bell;H.L. Van Trees

  • Optimal Power Control for Cognitive Radio Networks Under Coupled Interference Constraints: A Cooperative Game-Theoretic Perspective

    Chun-Gang Yang;Jian-Dong Li;Zhi Tian

  • Sparsity Order Estimation and its Application in Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios

    Yue Wang;Zhi Tian;Chunyan Feng

  • Compressive Covariance Sensing: Structure-based compressive sensing beyond sparsity

    Daniel Romero;Dyonisius Dony Ariananda;Zhi Tian;Geert Leus

  • A GLRT approach to data-aided timing acquisition in UWB radios-Part I: algorithms

    Zhi Tian;G.B. Giannakis

  • Near-optimum soft decision equalization for frequency selective MIMO channels

    Shoumin Liu;Zhi Tian

  • BER sensitivity to mistiming in ultra-wideband impulse Radios-part I: nonrandom channels

    Zhi Tian;G.B. Giannakis

  • Non-data aided timing acquisition of ultra-wideband transmissions using cyclostationarity

    Liuqing Yang;Zhi Tian;G.B. Giannakis

  • Error performance of pulse-based ultra-wideband MIMO systems over indoor wireless channels

    Huaping Liu;R.C. Qiu;Zhi Tian

  • Localized Structural Health Monitoring Using Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks

    Qing Ling;Zhi Tian;Yuejun Yin;Yue Li

  • Efficient Two-Dimensional Line Spectrum Estimation Based on Decoupled Atomic Norm Minimization

    Zhe Zhang;Yue Wang;Zhi Tian

  • Weighted Energy Detection for Noncoherent Ultra-Wideband Receiver Design

    Feng Wang;Zhi Tian;B M Sadler

Frequent Co-Authors

Qing Ling
Qing Ling Sun Yat-sen University
Georgios B. Giannakis
Georgios B. Giannakis University of Minnesota
Geert Leus
Geert Leus Delft University of Technology
Xiuzhen Cheng
Xiuzhen Cheng Shandong University
Erik Blasch
Erik Blasch United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Genshe Chen
Genshe Chen Intelligent Fusion Technology (United States)
Timothy N. Davidson
Timothy N. Davidson McMaster University
Yingshu Li
Yingshu Li Georgia State University
Jiguo Yu
Jiguo Yu Qilu University of Technology
Sinan Gezici
Sinan Gezici Bilkent University

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