Louis L. Scharf

15.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
297 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Louis L. Scharf is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Aerospace Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis L. Scharf has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Signal Processing, 71 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 67 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Louis L. Scharf's work include Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (85 papers), Blind Source Separation Techniques (83 papers) and Radar Systems and Signal Processing (60 papers). Louis L. Scharf is often cited by papers focused on Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (85 papers), Blind Source Separation Techniques (83 papers) and Radar Systems and Signal Processing (60 papers). Louis L. Scharf collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Australia. Louis L. Scharf's co-authors include Peter J. Schreier, Cédric Demeure, S. Kraut, B. Friedlander, L.T. McWhorter, Ali Pezeshki, C.J. Demeure, J.F. Hauer, I.S. Reed and Yuejie Chi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Louis L. Scharf

269 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Statistical signal processing : detection, estimation, and time series analysis

1991 1.4k citations Louis L. Scharf et al. profile →
Matched subspace detectors

1994 698 citations Louis L. Scharf, B. Friedlander IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
Initial results in Prony analysis of power system response signals

1990 667 citations J.F. Hauer, C.J. Demeure et al. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems profile →
Sensitivity to Basis Mismatch in Compressed Sensing

2011 627 citations Louis L. Scharf et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
Adaptive subspace detectors

2001 542 citations Louis L. Scharf, L.T. McWhorter et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
A multistage representation of the Wiener filter based on orthogonal projections

1998 538 citations Louis L. Scharf et al. profile →
Statistical Signal Processing of Complex-Valued Data

2010 498 citations Peter J. Schreier, Louis L. Scharf profile →
The CFAR adaptive subspace detector is a scale-invariant GLRT

1999 479 citations Louis L. Scharf et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Louis L. Scharf United States	42	4.8k	3.5k	2.9k	2.5k	1.8k	297	11.4k
B. Friedlander United States	58	7.3k 1.5×	4.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	760 0.4×	382	12.2k
Steven Kay United States	44	4.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	4.0k 1.4×	1.8k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	209	14.1k
Harry L. Van Trees United States	18	6.3k 1.3×	4.4k 1.2×	4.3k 1.5×	2.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.4×	47	14.4k
Arye Nehorai United States	59	8.1k 1.7×	6.5k 1.8×	4.9k 1.7×	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	457	17.5k
Bhaskar D. Rao United States	52	6.0k 1.3×	1.9k 0.5×	5.3k 1.8×	5.7k 2.3×	2.8k 1.6×	388	15.1k
Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos United States	53	3.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	5.8k 2.0×	2.6k 1.0×	4.2k 2.3×	360	13.3k
Hing Cheung So Hong Kong	57	5.7k 1.2×	5.0k 1.4×	5.0k 1.7×	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	507	12.2k
Alan V. Oppenheim United States	47	5.7k 1.2×	915 0.3×	4.0k 1.4×	2.7k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	174	18.4k
Wing‐Kin Ma Hong Kong	44	1.5k 0.3×	3.1k 0.9×	7.1k 2.5×	1.2k 0.5×	3.5k 1.9×	241	12.1k
J.G. Proakis United States	49	4.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	10.4k 3.6×	2.7k 1.1×	5.9k 3.3×	232	19.7k

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Cheney, Margaret, et al.. (2024). Image analysis and resolution for detection-based synthetic-aperture passive source localization. Inverse Problems. 40(5). 55003–55003.

Ramírez, David, et al.. (2024). Multi-Channel Factor Analysis: Identifiability and Asymptotics. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 72. 3562–3577.

Ramírez, David, Ignacio Santamarı́a, & Louis L. Scharf. (2023). Passive Detection of Rank-One Gaussian Signals for Known Channel Subspaces and Arbitrary Noise. UCrea (University of Cantabria). 1–5.

Ramírez, David, Ignacio Santamarı́a, & Louis L. Scharf. (2022). Coherence. 3 indexed citations

Francos, Joseph M., et al.. (2021). Matched Manifold Detection for Group-Invariant Registration and Classification of Images. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 69. 4162–4176. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Sissi Xiaoxiao, Anna Scaglione, & Louis L. Scharf. (2019). Decentralized Array Processing with Application to Cooperative Passive Radar. 51–55. 2 indexed citations

Duan, Dongliang, Luoyang Fang, Louis L. Scharf, & Liuqing Yang. (2013). Error Floor Elimination For Dft-Based Frequency Estimators. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Ramírez, David, Javier Vía, Ignacio Santamarı́a, & Louis L. Scharf. (2011). Multi-sensor beamsteering based on the asymptotic likelihood for colored signals. 149–152.

Schreier, Peter J., Louis L. Scharf, & C.T. Mullis. (2003). A unified approach to performance comparisons between linear and widely linear processing. 6 indexed citations

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Scharf, Louis L., et al.. (2003). Matched Subspace Detectors for Stochastic Signals. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 13 indexed citations

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Friedlander, B. & Louis L. Scharf. (2002). Hankel and Toeplitz kernels for time-varying spectrum estimation. 340–343. 1 indexed citations

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Scharf, Louis L. & L.T. McWhorter. (1993). Geometry of the Cramer-Rao bound. Signal Processing. 31(3). 301–311. 87 indexed citations

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Burleson, Wayne & Louis L. Scharf. (1991). Input/Output Design for VLSI Array Architectures.. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 8(5). 357–366. 2 indexed citations

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Scharf, Louis L., et al.. (1990). A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering: With Matlab Programs and Experiments. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 62(6). 1221–9. 6 indexed citations

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Hauer, J.F., C.J. Demeure, & Louis L. Scharf. (1990). Initial results in Prony analysis of power system response signals. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 5(1). 80–89. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mullis, C.T. & Louis L. Scharf. (1989). Quadratic Estimators of the Power Spectrum. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 89. 27964. 38 indexed citations

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Burleson, Wayne, et al.. (1989). A systolic VSLI chip for implementing orthogonal transforms. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 24(2). 466–469. 6 indexed citations

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Kumaresan, R., D.W. Tufts, & Louis L. Scharf. (1984). A Prony method for noisy data: Choosing the signal components and selecting the order in exponential signal models. Proceedings of the IEEE. 72(2). 230–233. 129 indexed citations

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Scharf, Louis L., et al.. (1979). Covariance Sequence Approximation with Applications to Spectrum Analysis and Digital Filter Design.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations

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Farden, David C. & Louis L. Scharf. (1974). Statistical design of nonrecursive digital filters. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing. 22(3). 188–196. 50 indexed citations

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