Publications [#371114] of Paul L Bendich

Papers Published

1. Koplik, G; Borggren, N; Voisin, S; Angeloro, G; Hineman, J; Johnson, T; Bendich, P, Topological Simplification of Signals for Inference and Approximate Reconstruction, IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, vol. 2023-March (January, 2023), ISBN 9781665490320 [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/09/17)

   Abstract:
   As Internet of Things (loT) devices become both cheaper and more powerful, researchers are increasingly finding solutions to their scientific curiosities both financially and com-putationally feasible. When operating with restricted power or communications budgets, however, devices can only send highly-compressed data. Such circumstances are common for devices placed away from electric grids that can only communicate via satellite, a situation particularly plausible for environmental sensor networks. These restrictions can be further complicated by potential variability in the communications budget, for ex-ample a solar-powered device needing to expend less energy when transmitting data on a cloudy day. We propose a novel, topology-based, lossy compression method well-equipped for these restrictive yet variable circumstances. This technique, Topological Signal Compression, allows sending compressed sig-nals that utilize the entirety of a variable communications budget. To demonstrate our algorithm's capabilities, we per-form entropy calculations as well as a classification exercise on increasingly topologically simplified signals from the Free-Spoken Digit Dataset and explore the stability of the resulting performance against common baselines.