Nokia Research Center

Publications

Many of the following publications are available at the IEEE Xplore. For further questions, please, do not hesitate to contact me.

D.Sc.(Tech) Thesis: "Signal Processing for Arbitrary
Sensor Array Configurations: Theory and Algorithms", Helsinki
University of Technology (TKK), Signal Processing Laboratory,
Finland, 2007, ISBN: 978-951-22-8969-1, ISSN: 1458-6401.

M.Sc.(Tech) Thesis: "Direction of Arrival Estimation
Algorithms for Linear and Circular Antenna Arrays", Dipartimento
di Electronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano, Milan,
Italy, 2003. This thesis was carried out at the Signal Processing
Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), in the
accademic year 2002/2003.

International Scientific Journals

F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "Beamspace Transform for UCA: Error
Analysis and Bias Reduction", IEEE Transactions Signal
Processing, vol. 54 no. 8, pp. 3078-3089, Aug. 2006.

F. Belloni, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "DoA Estimation via
Manifold Separation for Arbitrary Array Structures", IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55 no. 10, pp. 4800-4810, Oct. 2007.

International Scientific Conference Proceedings

F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "High-resolution Direction Finding
using Uniform Circular Array", Proceedings of the Signal
Processing Advances and Smart Antenna Systems, Helsinki, Oct.
7-8, 2003. 

F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "Unitary root-MUSIC technique for
Uniform Circular Array", Proceedings of the IEEE
International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information
Technology (ISSPIT), Darmstadt, Germany, Dec. 14-17, 2003.

F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "Analysis of Beamspace Transform on
Uniform Circular Array", Proceedings of the 38th Annual
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific
Grove, California, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2004.

F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "Reducing Bias in Beamspace Methods
for Uniform Circular Array", Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Mar. 19-23, 2005.

F. Belloni, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "Reducing Excess Variance
in Beamspace Methods for Uniform Circular Array",
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal
Processing (SSP), Bordeaux, France, Jul. 17-20, 2005.

F. Belloni, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "Avoiding Bias in
Circular Arrays Using Optimal Beampattern Shaping and EADF",
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA,
Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2005.

F. Belloni, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "Extension of root-MUSIC
to non-ULA Array Configurations", Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.

A. Richter, F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "DoA and Polarization
Estimation using Arbitrary Polarimetric Array Configurations",
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and
Multi-channel Processing (SAM), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, Jul.
12-14, 2006.

F. Belloni, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "Performance of
root-MUSIC algorithm using Real-World Arrays", Proceedings
of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO),
Florence, Italy, Sept. 4-8, 2006.

M. Costa, A. Richter, F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "Polynomial
rooting-based direction finding for arbitrary array
configurations", Proceedigns of 5th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and
Multi-channel Processing (SAM), pp. 58-62, Darmstadt, Germany,
Jul. 21-23, 2008.

J. Rahola, F. Belloni, and A. Richter, "Processing of radiation
patterns using spherical harmonic expansions", Finnish
National URSI Convention Radio Science/Electromagnetic, Espoo,
Oct. 2008.

J. Rahola, F. Belloni, and A. Richter, "Modeling of radiation
patterns using scalar spherical harmonics with vector
coefficients", Proceedings of European Conference on
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Berlin, Germany, 2009.

F. Belloni, V. Ranki, A. Kainulainen, and A. Richter, "Angle-based
Indoor Positioning System for Open Indoor Environments", Proceeding of Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication
(WPNC), Hannover, Germany, 2009.

P. Kemppi, J. Pajunen, V. Ranki, F. Belloni, T. Rautiainen,”Hybrid positioning system combining angle-based localization, pedestrian dead reckoning, and map-filtering”, International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Zurich, Switzerland, 2010. 

T. Ahola, T. Ahmaniemi, K. Tahiroglu, F. Belloni, and V. Ranki, "Raja - a multidisciplinary artistic performance", Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Oslo, Norway, 2011.

Other Scientific Publications or Presentations

F. Belloni, and V. Koivunen, "Beamspace Transform for UCA: Error
Analysis and Bias Reduction", Technical Report No. 48,
ISBN: 951-22-7292-X, Signal Processing Laboratory, Helsinki
University of Technology (TKK), 2004.

F. Belloni, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "DoA Estimation via
Manifold Separation for Arbitrary Array Structures: Error
Analysis", Technical Report No. 56, ISBN: 951-22-8346-8,
Signal Processing Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
(TKK), 2006.

F. Belloni, A. Kainulainen, A. Richter, and V. Koivunen, "Direction Finding based Multi-Emitter Tracking System for Mobile Phones", Presented at the Show & Tell Section at the IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei,
Taiwan, 2009.