Publications

Preprints

Spectral Power Parameter Estimation of Random Sources with Binary Sampled Signals
Manuel S. Stein
Release: October 2019, Latest Version: October 2019 [arXiv]
Glancing Through Massive Binary Radio Lenses: Hardware-Aware Interferometry With 1-Bit Sensors
Manuel S. Stein
Release: May 2019, Latest Version: July 2019 [arXiv]

Published or in Press

Sensitivity Analysis for Binary Sampling Systems via Quantitative Fisher Information Lower Bounds
Manuel S. Stein
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5601-5618, 2022 [DOI] [arXiv]
On Optimal Quantization in Sequential Detection
Michael Fauß, Manuel S. Stein and H. Vincent Poor
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 4440-4453, 2022 [DOI] [arXiv]
Latency Analysis for Sequential Detection in Low-Complexity Binary Radio Systems
Manuel S. Stein and Michael Fauß
IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 8598-8611, 2019 [DOI] [arXiv]
In a One-Bit Rush: Low-Latency Wireless Spectrum Monitoring with Binary Sensor Arrays
Manuel S. Stein and Michael Fauß
IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Freiburg, Germany, 2018, pp. 223-227 [DOI] [arXiv]
Asymptotic Signal Detection Rates with 1-bit Array Measurements
Manuel S. Stein
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, 2018, pp. 4534-4538 [DOI] [arXiv]
Data-driven Quality Assessment of Noisy Nonlinear Sensor and Measurement Systems
Manuel S. Stein, Markus Neumayer, and Kurt Barbé
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1668-1678, 2018 [DOI]
Performance Analysis for Channel Estimation with 1-bit ADC and Unknown Quantization Threshold
Manuel S. Stein, Shahar Bar, Josef A. Nossek, and Joseph Tabrikian
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 2557-2571, 2018 [DOI] [arXiv]
Joint Transmit and Receive Filter Optimization for Sub-Nyquist Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation
Andreas Lenz, Manuel S. Stein, and A. Lee Swindlehurst
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 2542-2556, 2018 [DOI] [arXiv]
On the Delay-Doppler Tracking Error for Sub-Nyquist Satellite-Based Synchronization
Manuel S. Stein, Andreas Lenz, and A. Lee Swindlehurst
IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Curaçao, Dutch Antilles, 2017, pp. 1-5 [DOI]
Analog Transmit Signal Optimization for Undersampled Delay-Doppler Estimation
Andreas Lenz, Manuel S. Stein, and A. Lee Swindlehurst
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, Greece, 2017, pp. 1205-1209 [DOI] [arXiv]
Performance Analysis for Time-Of-Arrival Estimation with Oversampled Low-Complexity 1-bit A/D Conversion
Manuel S. Stein
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, 2017, pp. 4491-4495 [DOI] [arXiv]
A Pessimistic Approximation for the Fisher Information Measure
Manuel S. Stein and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 386–396, 2017 [DOI] [arXiv]
Measurement-driven Quality Assessment of Nonlinear Systems by Exponential Replacement
Manuel Stein, Josef A. Nossek, and Kurt Barbé
IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Taipei, Taiwan, 2016, pp. 1-5 [DOI] [arXiv]
Performance Analysis for Pilot-based 1-bit Channel Estimation with Unknown Quantization Threshold
Manuel Stein, Shahar Bar, Josef A. Nossek, and Joseph Tabrikian
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016, pp. 4353-4357 [DOI] [arXiv]
Asymptotic Performance Analysis for 1-bit Bayesian Smoothing
Lin Zhang, Manuel Stein, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016, pp. 4458-4462 [DOI] [arXiv]
DOA Parameter Estimation with 1-bit Quantization - Bounds, Methods and the Exponential Replacement
Manuel Stein, Kurt Barbé, and Josef A. Nossek
20th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Munich, Germany, 2016, pp. 1-6 [Xplore] [arXiv]
Signal Parameter Estimation Performance under a Sampling Rate Constraint
Andreas Lenz, Manuel Stein, and Josef A. Nossek
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, 2015, pp. 503-507 [DOI]
Asymptotic Parameter Tracking Performance with Measurement Data of 1-Bit Resolution
Manuel Stein, Alexander Kürzl, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 22, pp. 6086–6095, 2015 [DOI] [arXiv]
Ranging with High Accuracy and without Ambiguities
Sebastian Theiler, Manuel Stein, and Josef A. Nossek
Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC), Dresden, Germany, 2015 [mediaTUM]
Overdemodulation for High-Performance Receivers with Low-Resolution ADC
Manuel Stein, Sebastian Theiler, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 169–172, 2015 [DOI] [arXiv]
Optimum Analog Receive Filters for Detection and Inference under a Sampling Rate Constraint
Manuel Stein, Andreas Lenz, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 2014, pp. 1827–1831 [DOI] [mediaTUM]
Will the 1-bit GNSS Receiver Prevail?
Manuel Stein and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Monterey, USA, 2014, pp. 1033-1040 [DOI] [mediaTUM]
Information-Preserving Spatial Filtering for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Manuel Stein, Mario Castañeda, and Josef A. Nossek
International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Erlangen, Germany, 2014, pp. 1 – 6 [Xplore] [mediaTUM]
A Lower Bound for the Fisher Information Measure
Manuel Stein, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 796–799, 2014 [DOI] [arXiv]
Information-Preserving Transformations for Signal Parameter Estimation
Manuel Stein, Mario Castañeda, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 866–870, 2014 [DOI] [mediaTUM]
Quantization-Loss Reduction for Signal Parameter Estimation
Manuel Stein, Friederike Wendler, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, 2013, pp. 5800-5804 [DOI] [mediaTUM]
Joint Space-Time Interference Mitigation for Embedded Multi-Antenna GNSS Receivers
Mario Castañeda, Manuel Stein, Felix Antreich, Emrah Tasdemir, Lothar Kurz, Tobias G. Noll, and Josef A. Nossek
ION GNSS+, Nashville, USA, 2013, pp. 3399-3408 [ION] [mediaTUM]
Quantization-Loss Analysis for Array Signal-Source Localization
Manuel Stein, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Stuttgart, Germany, 2013, pp. 1-8 [Xplore] [mediaTUM]
Quantization-Loss Reduction for 1-bit BOC Positioning
Friederike Wendler, Manuel Stein, Amine Mezghani, and Josef A. Nossek
ION International Technical Meeting (ITM), San Diego, USA, 2013, pp. 509-518 [ION] [mediaTUM]
Multi-Satellite Time-Delay Estimation for Reliable High-Resolution GNSS Receivers
Christoph Enneking, Manuel Stein, Mario Castañeda, Felix Antreich, and Josef A. Nossek
IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Myrtle Beach, USA, 2012, pp. 488-494 [DOI] [mediaTUM]

Theses

Signal Parameter Estimation with 1-bit ADC - Performance Bounds, Methods and System Design
Manuel S. Stein
Doctoral Thesis, April 2016 [mediaTUM]
Two-way Relay Channels with Half-duplex Constraint
Manuel Stein
Master’s Thesis, October 2010 [mediaTUM]
A Framework for Detection and Tracking of Pedestrians
Manuel Stein
Bachelor’s Thesis, February 2009

Notes & Reports

Towards Optimal Schemes for the Half-Duplex Two-Way Relay Channel
Manuel Stein
Technical Note, 2011 [arXiv]
Dual Problem Algorithms
Manuel Stein
Report, 2009 [mediaTUM]

Granted Patents

Ranging Method and Apparatus
Manuel Stein, Sebastian Theiler, and Josef A. Nossek
US 10527716, January 2020
Method for Demodulation and Demodulator
Josef A. Nossek, Manuel Stein, and Sebastian Theiler
US 9923752, March 2018

Talks & Posters

Glancing Through Massive Binary Radio Lenses
Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), The Netherlands, September 2019.
A Probabilistic Perspective on Massive Binary Sensing Architectures
Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), The Netherlands, June 2019.
Statistical Modeling and Inference for Massive Physical-Binary Sensor Systems
Fall of the Analog-to-Digital Information Bottleneck?
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (UIBK), Austria, January 2019.
CATHLIN - A Conservative Likelihood Framework for Nonlinear Signal Processing
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Bonn, Germany, December 2018.
Statistical Modeling and Inference for Massive Physical-Binary Sensor Systems
Fall of the Analog-to-Digital Information Bottleneck?
Aarhus Universitet (AU), Denmark, November 2018.
Statistical Modeling and Inference for Massive Physical-Binary Sensor Systems
Fall of the Analog-to-Digital Information Bottleneck?
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, September, 2018.
High-Performance Wireless Sensing with Low-Complexity Array Measurements
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, March 2018.
Statistical Signal Processing with Binary Sensor Arrays
Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany, February 2018.
System Design Optimization for Sub-Nyquist Wireless Ranging and Synchronization
Universität Bayreuth (UBT), Germany, January 2018.
Signal Processing with 1-bit Sensor Array Measurements
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, January 2018.
Statistical Signal Processing with Low-Complexity Sensor Design
Universität Bayreuth (UBT), Germany, November 2017.
Signal Parameter Estimation with 1-bit ADC
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, July 2016.
CATHLIN - A Conservative Likelihood Framework for Nonlinear Signal Processing
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Bonn, Germany, July 2016.
High-Resolution Signal Processing with Low-Complexity System Design
Universität der Bundeswehr (UniBW), München, Germany, February 2016.
DOA Parameter Estimation with 1-bit ADC
Universität Paderborn (UPB), Germany, February 2016.
Information-Preserving Spatial Filtering for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Sony European Technology Center (STC), Stuttgart, October 2015.
Will the 1-bit GNSS Receiver Prevail?
DLR Space Administration, Cologne-Bonn, Germany, January 2015.
Will the 1-bit GNSS Receiver Prevail?
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, March 2014.
Opportunities and Challenges of Adaptive Hardware-aware GNSS Channel Estimation
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, November 2013.
Quantization-loss Reduction for Information Measures
IEEE European School of Information Theory, Ohrid, Macedonia, April 2013.
Quantization-loss Reduction for Information Measures
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany, February 2013.
Quantization-loss Reduction for 1-bit GNSS Signal Parameter Estimation
University of California, Irvine, USA, January 2013.
Complexity-Performance Tradeoff for GNSS Signal Parameter Estimation
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, January 2013.
Optimizing Low-Complexity GNSS Receivers
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, October 2012.
Time-delay Estimation for Multi-Satellite Systems
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, March 2012.
Towards Optimal Schemes for the Half-Duplex Two-Way Relay Channel
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, March 2011.
Towards Optimal Schemes for the Half-Duplex Two-Way Relay Channel
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, February 2011.
Two-way Relay Channels with Half-duplex Constraint
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, October 2010.
Optimization for Communications and Signal Processing
Dual Problem Algorithms
TUM Summer School, Sarntal, Austria, September 2009.
Random Matrix Theory for MIMO Communications
Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, July 2009.