Joseph Tabrikian

Associate Professor

 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

 

Tel: +972-8-6477774
Fax: +972-8-6472949

joseph@ee.bgu.ac.il

 

 

Research interests

Statistical Signal Processing Theory and Applications:

·         Bayesian and non-Bayesian performance lower bounds for parameter estimation

·         Performance lower bounds for detection theory

·         MIMO radar, cognitive radar

·         Speech enhancement and multi-pitch tracking

 

Courses

·         Introduction to Stochastic Processes

·         Introduction to Estimation Theory

·         Detection Theory

·         Spatial Signal Processing

·         Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing

 

 

List of Publications

 

Refereed papers in scientific journals:

1.      J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Three dimensional source localization in a waveguide," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 1-13, January 1996.

2.      J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Source localization in a waveguide using polynomial rooting," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 1861-1871,  August 1996.

3.      J. Tabrikian, J. L. Krolik, and H. Messer, "Robust maximum likelihood source localization in an uncertain shallow water waveguide," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 241-249, January 1997.

4.      J. Tabrikian, G. Fostick, and H. Messer, "Detection of environmental mismatch in a shallow water waveguide,"  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 2181-2190, August 1999.

5.      J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Barankin bounds for source localization in an uncertain ocean environment,"  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 2917-2927, November 1999.

6.      J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Theoretical performance limits on tropospheric refractivity estimation using point-to-point microwave measurements," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 1727-1734, November 1999.

7.      K. Harmanci, J. Tabrikian, and J. L. Krolik, "Relationships between adaptive minimum-variance beamforming and optimal source localization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 1-13, January 2000.

8.      A. Ephraty, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "Underwater source detection using a spatial stationarity test," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 1053-1063, March 2001.

9.      J. Tabrikian, S. Dubnov, and Y. Dickalov, "Maximum a-posteriori probability pitch tracking in noisy environments using harmonic model," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 76-87, January 2004.

10.  J. Tabrikian, R. Shavit, and D. Rahamim, "An efficient vector sensor configuration for source localization," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 690-693, August 2004.

11.  D. Rahamim, J. Tabrikian, and R. Shavit, "Source localization using vector sensor array in a multipath environment," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 3096-3103, November 2004.

12.  I. Bilik, J. Tabrikian, and A. Cohen, "GMM-based target classification for ground surveillance Doppler radar," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 267-278, January 2006.

13.  S. Dubnov, J. Tabrikian, and M. Arnon-Targan, "Speech source separation in convolutive environments using space-time-frequency analysis," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, January 2006.

14.  E. Fisher, J. Tabrikian, and S. Dubnov, "Generalized likelihood ratio test for voiced-unvoiced decision in noisy speech using the harmonic model," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 502-510, March 2006.

15.  I. Bekkerman and J. Tabrikian, "Target detection and localization using MIMO radars and sonars," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 3873-3883, October 2006.

16.  G. Katz, D. Sadot, and J. Tabrikian, "Electrical dispersion compensation equalizers in optical direct- and coherent-detection systems," IEEE Transactions on Communications,  vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2045-2050, November 2006.

17.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Blind separation of independent sources using Gaussian mixture model," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 3645-3658, July 2007.

18.  A. Kisliansky, R. Shavit, and J. Tabrikian, "Direction of arrival estimation in the presence of noise coupling in antenna arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1940-1947, July 2007.

19.  S. Tejman-Yarden, A. Zlotnik, L. Weizman, J. Tabrikian, A. Cohen, N. Weksler, and G. Gurman," Acoustic monitoring of lung sounds  for detection of one-lung intubation," Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 397-404, August 2007.

20.  Y. Noam and J. Tabrikian, "Marginal likelihood for estimation and detection theory," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 3963-3974, August 2007.

21.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Radar target classification using Doppler signatures of human locomotion models," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1510-1522, October 2007.

22.  L. Weizman, J. Tabrikian, and A. Cohen, "Detection of one-lung intubation incidents," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 1844-1855, November 2008.

23.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "MIMO-AR system identification and blind source separation for GMM-distributed sources," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1717-1730, May 2009.

24.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Maneuvering target tracking in the presence of glint using the nonlinear Gaussian mixture Kalman filter," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 246-262, January 2010.

25.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Blind MIMO-AR system identification and source separation with finite-alphabet," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 990-1000, March 2010.

26.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "MMSE-based filtering in presence of non-Gaussian system and measurement noise ," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1153-1170, July 2010.

27.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "QML-based joint diagonalization of positive-definite Hermitian matrices," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 4658-4673, September 2010.

28.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "General classes of performance lower bounds for parameter estimation - Part I: non-Bayesian bounds for unbiased estimators," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 5045-5063, October 2010.

29.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "General classes of performance lower bounds for parameter estimation - Part II: Bayesian bounds," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 5064-5082, October 2010.

30.  T. Li, J. Tabrikian, and A. Nehorai, "A Barankin-type bound on direction estimation using acoustic sensor arrays," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 431-435, January 2011.

31.  A. Koretz and J. Tabrikian, "Maximum a posteriori probability multiple pitch tracking using the harmonic model," IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 2210-2221, September 2011.

32.  G. Ofek, J. Tabrikian, and M. Aladjem, "A modular neural network for direction-of-arrival estimation of two sources," Neurocomputing, vol. 74, no. 17, pp. 3092-3102, October 2011.

33.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Uniformly best biased estimators in non-Bayesian parameter estimation," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 11 pp. 7635-7647, Nov. 2011.

34.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Bayesian parameter estimation using periodic cost functions," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing – accepted.

35.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "A general class of outage error probability lower bounds in Bayesian parameter estimation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing – accepted.

36.  D. Lederman and J. Tabrikian, "Classification of multichannel EEG patterns using parallel hidden Markov models," Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing - accepted.

37.  V. Tourbabin, M. Agmon, B. Rafaely, and J. Tabrikian, Optimal real-weighted beamforming and its application to linear and spherical arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio, and Language Processing – Submitted for publication - in revision.

38.  Y. Eisenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Low complexity space-frequency waveform design for MIMO-OFDM systems," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing – submitted for publication.

 

Refereed book chapters

1.      I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Knowledge-based target classification for Doppler radars," in Knowledge-Based Radar Detection, Tracking  and Classification, edited by F. Gini and M. Rangaswamy, Wiley 2007, Chapter 9, pp. 197-224,.

2.      J. Tabrikian, "Performance bounds and techniques for target localization using MIMO radars," in MIMO Radar Signal Processing, Ed. J. Li and P. Stoica, Wiley November 2008, Chapter 4, pp. 153-192.

3.      I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "MMSE-based filtering for linear and nonlinear systems in the presence of non-Gaussian system and measurement noise," in Applications of Kalman Filter, I-Tech Education and Publishing, November 2008.

 

Reprinted papers in book series

The following papers have been reprinted in Bayesian Bounds for Parameter Estimation and Nonlinear Filtering and Tracking. Ed. H. L. Van Trees and K. Bell, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2007.

1.      J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Theoretical performance limits on tropospheric refractivity estimation using point-to-point microwave measurements".

2.      J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Efficient computation of the Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound on estimating parameters of Markov models".

3.      A. Pinkus and J. Tabrikian, "Barankin bound for range and Doppler estimation using orthogonal signal transmission".

4.      J. Tabrikian, "Barankin bounds for target localization for MIMO radars".

 

Conferences

(a) Invited presentations:

1.      J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Performance limits on underwater acoustic matched-field processing," invited presentation in the 133rd meeting of Acoustical Society of America, State College, PA, June 1997.

2.      J. Tabrikian, "Barankin bounds for target localization for MIMO radars," invited presentation in the 4th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing. Waltham, MA, July 2006, pp. 278-281. 

(b) Refereed conference papers:                               

3.      J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Source localization in a waveguide - spatial sampling issues and algorithms," Proc. of Comm-Sphere, January 1995, pp. 185-190.

4.      J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Optimal and sub-optimal source localization in a waveguide," Proc. of the IEEE eighteenth Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, March 1995.

5.      J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Source localization in shallow water using polynomial rooting," Proc. of ICASSP, May 1995, pp. 3111-3114.

6.      J. Tabrikian, J. L. Krolik, and H. Messer, "Robust maximum-likelihood source localization by exploiting predictable acoustic modes," Proc. of ICASSP, May 1996, pp. 3090-3093.

7.      G. Fostick, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "A test for detection of local modeling mismatches in shallow water," Proc. of ICASSP, May 1996, pp. 3078-3081.

8.      A. Ephraty, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "A test for spatial stationarity and applications in source detection in bounded environments," Proc. of 8th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, June 1996, pp. 247-250.

9.      J. Tabrikian, H. Messer, and G. Fostick, "Robust Maximum-Likelihood estimation of local environmental parameters in shallow water," Proc. of ICSP'96, October 1996, vol. 2, pp. 1531-1534.

10.  J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Robust parameter estimation with presence of nuisance parameters," Proc. of IEEE nineteenth Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, November 1996.

11.  A. Ephraty, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "Consistent non-parametric estimation of spatial spectrum," Proc. of IEEE nineteenth Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, November 1996, vol. 5, pp. 3705-3708.

12.  J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Barankin bounds for source localization in shallow water," Proc. of ICASSP, April 1997, vol. 1, pp. 499-502.

13.  A. Ephraty, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "Robust source detection in shallow water," Proc. of ICASSP, April 1997, vol. 5, pp. 3705-3709.

14.  J. Tabrikian, O. Wust, and J. L. Krolik, "The performance of microwave sensing techniques for tropospheric refractivity estimation," Proc. of PIERS'97, July 1997.

15.  J. L. Krolik and J. Tabrikian, "Tropospheric refractivity estimation using radar clutter from the sea surface," Proc. of the 1997 Battlespace Atmospherics Conference, SSC-SD, San Diego, December 1997, pp. 635-642.

16.  K. Harmanci, J. Tabrikian, and J. L. Krolik, "Maximum-Likelihood track-before-detect matched-field beamforming with SWELLEX data," 135th meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, June 1998.

17.  A. Eliaz, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "Robust communications techniques in uncertain shallow water acoustic channels," Proc. of 9th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, September 1998, 124-127.

18.  J. Tabrikian and J. L. Krolik, "Efficient computation of the Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound on estimating parameters of Markov models," Proc. of ICASSP, March 1999, vol. 3, pp. 1761-1764.

19.  J. L. Krolik, J. Tabrikian, S. Vasudevan, and L. T.  Rogers, "Using radar sea clutter to estimate refractivity profiles associated with the capping inversion of the marine atmospheric boundary layer," Proc. Intl. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 1999, pp. 649-651.

20.  I. Avital, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "Multi-tone sensor gain calibration in an uncertain underwater environment," Proc. of the IEEE Sensor Array and Mulichannel Signal Processing Workshop, March 2000, pp. 107-111.

21.  M. Wasserblatt and J. Tabrikian, "Underwater acoustic communications in a time-varying environment," Proc. of the 21st IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Tel Aviv, April 2000, pp. 452-455.

22.  M. Wasserblatt and J. Tabrikian, "Underwater acoustic communications using a-priori statistics on channel time-variations,"  Proc. of ICASSP, June 2000, vol. 5, pp. 2689-2692.

23.  J. Tabrikian and H. Messer, "Robust localization of scattered sources," Proc. of the 10th Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, August 2000, pp. 453-457.

24.  J. Tabrikian and A. Faizakov, "Optimal preprocessing for source localization by fewer receivers than sensors," Proc. of the 11th Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, August 2001, pp. 213-216.

25.  J. Tabrikian, S. Dubnov, and Y. Dickalov, "Speech enhancement by harmonic modeling via map pitch tracking," Proc. of  ICASSP, May 2002, vol. 1, pp. 549-552.

26.  J. Tabrikian and A. Nehorai, "Channel equalization in the presence of strong interference sources," Proc. of Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, August 2002, pp. 308-312.

27.  D. Rahamim, J. Tabrikian, and R. Shavit, "Coherent source localization using vector sensor arrays," Proc. of   ICASSP, April 2003, vol. 5, pp. 141-144.

28.  E. Fisher, J. Tabrikian, and S. Dubnov, "Generalized likelihood ratio test for voiced / unvoiced decision using the harmonic plus noise model," Proc. of  ICASSP, April 2003, vol. 1, pp. 440-443.

29.  I. Bekkerman and J. Tabrikian, "Spatially coded signal model for active arrays," Proc. of ICASSP, May 2004, vol. 2, pp. 209-212.

30.  S. Dubnov, J. Tabrikian, and M. Arnon-Taragan, "A method for directionally-disjoint source separation in convolutive environment," Proc. of ICASSP,  May 2004, vol. 5, pp. 489-492.

31.  L. Weizman, J. Tabrikian, and A. Cohen, "Detection of one lung intubation by monitoring lungs sounds" Proc. of EMBS 2004, September 2004, pp. 917-920.

32.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Blind separation of non-stationary and non-Gaussian independent sources," Proc. of the 23rd IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, September  2004, pp. 392-395.

33.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Application of Gaussian Mixture Models for Blind Separation of Independent Sources," in Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, Springer-Verlag Berlin, pp. 382-389, 2004.

34.  Y. Amos, J. Tabrikian, and I. Shallom, "Capon's time-frequency representation with non-stationary AR auto-correlation," Proc. of ICASSP, March 2005, vol. 4, pp. 509-512.

35.  Y. Noam and J. Tabrikian, "Parametric estimation of cumulants," Proc. of ICASSP, March 2005, vol. 4, pp. 305-308.

36.  J. Tabrikian and I. Bekkerman, "Transmission diversity smoothing for multitarget localization," Proc. of ICASSP, March 2005, vol. 4, pp. 1041-1044.

37.  I. Bilik, J. Tabrikian, A. Cohen, "Target classification using Gaussian mixture model for ground surveillance Doppler radar," Proc. of IEEE International Radar Conference, May 2005, pp. 910-915. Best student paper award.

38.  G. Katz, D. Sadot, and J. Tabrikian, "Electrical dispersion compensation equalizers in optical long-haul coherent-detection system," Proc. of 7th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, July 2005, vol. 2, pp. 80-83.

39.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Optimal recursive filtering using Gaussian mixture model," Proc. of 13th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, July  2005, pp. 399-404.

40.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Maneuvering target tracking using the nonlinear non-Gaussian Kalman filter," Proc. of ICASSP, Toulouse, May 2006.

41.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Target tracking in glint noise environment using nonlinear non-Gaussian Kalman filter," Proc. of IEEE International Radar Conference, April 2006. Best student paper award.

42.  A. Pinkus and J. Tabrikian, "Barankin bound for range and Doppler estimation using orthogonal signal transmission," Proc. of IEEE International Radar Conference, April 2006.

43.  D. Lederman and J. Tabrikian, "Constrained MMSE estimator for distribution mismatch compensation," Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing, July 2006, pp. 439-443.

44.  N. Ophir, J. Tabrikian, and H. Messer, "Capacity Analysis of Ocean Channels," Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing, July 2006, pp. 646-650.

45.  J. Tabrikian, "Barankin bounds for target localization for MIMO radars," invited presentation in the 4th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing, July 2006, pp. 278-281. 

46.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Blind source separation for MIMO-AR mixtures using GMM," Proc. of the 24th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, November 2006, pp. 310-314.

47.  A. Kislianski, R. Shavit, and J. Tabrikian, "Array processing in the presence of inter-sensor mutual coupling," Proc. of the 24th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, November 2006, pp. 189-193.

48.  Y. Noam and J. Tabrikian, "Asymptotic Analysis of Marginal-Likelihood Based Estimators for m-Dependent Processes," Proc. of the 24th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, November 2006, pp. 275-279.

49.  I. Bilik and J. Tabrikian, "Maneuvering target tracking in the presence of glint," Proc. of the 24th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, November 2006, pp. 52-56. Best student paper award.

50.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Blind source separation for MIMO-AR mixtures using GMM," Proc. of ICASSP, April 2007, vol. 3, pp. 761-764.

51.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Fast approximate joint diagonalization of positive definite Hermitian matrices," Proc. of ICASSP, April 2007, vol. 3, pp. 1373-1376.

52.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "A new lower bound on the mean-square-error of unbiased estimators," Proc. of ICASSP, March-April 2008, pp. 3913-3916.

53.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "A new lower bound based on weighted Fourier transform of the likelihood ratio function," Proc. of 5th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing, July 2008, pp. 428-432.

54.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "A new Bayesian lower bound on the mean square error of estimators," Proc. of EUSIPCO-2008, August 2008.

55.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "A general class of lower bounds on the probability of error in multiple hypothesis testing," Proc. of the 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, December 2008, pp. 750-754.

56.  Y. Stark and J. Tabrikian, "MMSE-based speech enhancement using the harmonic model," Proc. of the 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, December 2008, pp. 626-630.

57.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "A new lower bound on the mean-square-error of biased estimators," Proc. of the 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, December 2008, pp. 745-749.

58.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Hybrid lower bound via compression of the sampled CLR function," in the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, August-September 2009, pp. 602-605.

59.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "General classes of Bayesian bounds for outage error probability and MSE," in the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, August-September 2009, pp. 69-72.

60.  M. Agmon, B. Rafaely, and J. Tabrikian, "Maximum directivity beamformer for spherical aperture microphones," WASPAA, October 2009, pp. 153-156.

61.  Y. Eisenberg, J. Tabrikian, and R. Shavit, "Suboptimal space-frequency waveform design for MIMO-OFDM systems," Proc. of ICASSP, March 2010.

62.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "On order relations between lower bounds on the MSE of unbiased estimators," 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2010), June 2010, pp. 1663-1667. Best student paper finalist.

63.  K. Todros and J. Tabrikian, "Achievable MSE lower bounds in non-Bayesian biased estimation," Proc. of 6th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM2010), October 2010, pp. 117-120.

64.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Optimal Bayesian parameter estimation with periodic criteria," Proc. of 6th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM2010), October 2010, pp. 53-56.

65.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Outage error probability lower bounds in vector parameter estimation," Proc. of 6th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM2010), October 2010, pp. 105-108.

66.  T. Routtenberg and J. Tabrikian, "Periodic CRB for non-Bayesian parameter estimation," Proc. of ICASSP, May 2011. Best student paper award.

67.  W. Huleihel, J. Tabrikian, and R. Shavit, "Optimal sequential waveform design for cognitive radar," to appear in Proc. of ICASSP, March 2012.

 

 

Curriculum Vitae