Journal Papers

58. Automated Detection of Seafloor Gas Seeps in Multibeam Echosounder Data With an Attention-Guided Convolutional Neural Network
      S. M. Manjur, V. Senyurek, R. Kalski, S. Gupta, A. Skarke and A. C. Gurbuz
      IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 18, pp. 5633-5645, 2025,

57. DREAM-CFA: joint learning of binary color filter array and demosaicing
      Cemre Ömer Ayna, Bahadir Kursat GunturkAli Cafer Gurbuz
      Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 34, Issue 2, 023063 (April 2025).

56. Integrating UAS-Based GNSS-R, LiDAR, and Multispectral Data for Soil Moisture Estimation: Summary of Results From a Three-Year-Long Field Campaign,
     Farhad,M, Senyurek, V.; Rafi, M. A. S.; Baray, S. B.; McCraine, C.; Hathcock, L. A.; Adeli, A.; Yanbo, H.; Gurbuz, Ali C.; Kurum, M.
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, vol. 18, pp. 16896-16915, 2025

55. Beam Coefficient Prediction for Antenna Arrays Using Physics-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks
      G. D. King, M. Asaduzzaman Towfiq, A. C. Gurbuz and B. A. Cetiner
       IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 176908-176919, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3491828

54. Best Linear Unbiased Estimators for Fusion of Multiple CYGNSS Soil Moisture Products
      M. M. Nabi, V. Senyurek, M. Kurum and A. C. Gurbuz
      IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3443100

53. HRSpecNET: A Deep Learning-Based High-Resolution Radar Micro-Doppler Signature Reconstruction for Improved HAR
      S. Biswas, A. Manavi Alam and A. C. Gurbuz
      IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, vol. 2, pp. 484-497, 2024

52. SDR-Based Dual Polarized L-Band Microwave Radiometer Operating From Small UAS Platforms,
      M. M. Farhad, A. M. Alam, S. Biswas, M. A. S. Rafi, A. C. Gurbuz and M. Kurum
      IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 9389-9402, 2024

51. Emerging Trends in Autonomous Vehicle Perception: Multimodal Fusion for 3D Object Detection   
      Alaba, Simegnew Yihunie, Ali C. Gurbuz, and John E. Ball.
     World Electric Vehicle Journal 15, no. 1: 20.  2024. 

50. Microwave Radiometer Calibration Using Deep Learning With Reduced Reference Information and 2-D Spectral Features
      A. M. Alam, M. Kurum, M. Ogut and A. C. Gurbuz,
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 748-765, 2024,

2023

49. Learning-Based Optimization of Hyperspectral Band Selection for Classification
       
C. O. Ayna, R. Mdrafi, Qian Du, and A. C. Gurbuz
       
Remote Sensing 15, no. 18: 4460 2023. 

​48.  CV-SincNet: Learning Complex Sinc Filters from Raw Radar Data for Computationally Efficient Human Motion Recognition
       S. Biswas, C. O. Ayna, S.Z. Gurbuz, A.C. Gurbuz
  IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems,  vol. 1, pp. 493-504, 2023

47.  A Ubiquitous GNSS-R Methodology to Estimate Surface Reflectivity Using Spinning Smartphone Onboard a  Small UAS
       M. M. Farhad, M. Kurum and A. C. Gurbuz
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 6568-6578, 2023.

46.  Quasi-Global Assessment of Deep Learning-Based CYGNSS Soil Moisture Retrieval
       M. M. Nabi, V. Senyurek, F. Lei, M. Kurum and A. C. Gurbuz
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 5629-5644, 2023.

45. ​  Boosting multi-target recognition performance with multi-input multi-output radar-based angular subspace   projection and multi-view deep neural network
        E. Kurtoglu, S. Biswas, A. C. Gurbuz, and S.Z. Gurbuz
        IET Radar Sonar Navigation 17(7), 1115–1128, 2023.

​44.  Closing the Wearable Gap: Foot–ankle kinematic modeling via deep learning models based on a smart sock  wearable
        S. Davarzani, et.al. 
        Wearable Technologies, 4, E4, 2023. doi:10.1017/wtc.2023.3

2022

43.  Radio Frequency Interference Detection for SMAP Radiometer Using Convolutional Neural Networks
       A. M. Alam, M. Kurum and A. C. Gurbuz
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 15, pp. 10099-10112, 2022.

 42. Deep Learning-Based Soil Moisture Retrieval in CONUS Using CYGNSS Delay–Doppler Maps
       M. M. Nabi, V. Senyurek, A. C. Gurbuz and M. Kurum
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 15, pp. 6867-6881, 2022.

41.  Fusion of Reflected GPS Signals With Multispectral Imagery to Estimate Soil Moisture at Subfield Scale From Small UAS
      V. Senyurek, M. M. Farhad, A. C. Gurbuz, M. Kurum and A. Adeli
      IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 15, pp. 6843-6855, 2022.

40. A Quasi-Global Machine Learning-based Soil Moisture at High Spatio-Temporal Scales using CYGNSS and SMAP Observati
      F . Lei, V. Senyurek, M. Kurum, A. Gurbuz, D. R. Boyd, R. Moorhead, W.T. Crow, and O. Eroglu
      Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 276, July 2022, 113041. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113041.

39.  ASL Trigger Recognition in Mixed Activity/Signing Sequences for RF Sensor-Based User Interfaces
     .  E. Kurtoglu, A. C. Gurbuz, E. A. Malaia, D. Griffin, C. Crawford and S. Z. Gurbuz
       IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 699-712, Aug. 2022

38.  Effect of Kinematics and Fluency in Adversarial Synthetic Data Generation for ASL Recognition With RF Sensors
 
      M. M. Rahman, E. A. Malaia, A. C. Gurbuz, D. J. Griffin, C. Crawford and S. Z. Gurbuz
       IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 2732-2745, Aug. 2022

37.   Multi-Frequency RF Sensor Fusion for Word-Level Fluent ASL Recognition
       S. Z. Gurbuz, M. M. Rahman; E. Kurtoglu, A. C. Gurbuz;; E. A. Malaia; D. J. Griffin; C. Crawford
       IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 11373-11381, 15 June15, 2022

36.  Complexity in Sign Languages: Linguistic and Dimensional Analysis of Information Transfer in Dynamic Visual Comm
       E.A. Malaia, J.D. Borneman, E. Kurtoglu, S.Z. Gurbuz, D. Griffin, C. Crawford and A. C. Gurbuz
       Linguistic Vanguard, 2022, DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0005

2021

35.  Assessment of Interpolation Errors of CYGNSS Soil Moisture Estimations
       V. Senyurek, A. C. Gurbuz, M. Kurum
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 9815 – 9825, 2021.

34.  Robust estimation of the number of coherent radar signal sources using deep learning
       J. Rogers, J. E. Ball, , A. C. Gurbuz;
       IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, Vol 15, No 5, pp. 431-440, 2021

33.   American Sign Language Recognition Using RF Sensing
        S. Z. Gurbuz, A. C. Gurbuz; E. A. Malaia; D. J. Griffin; C. Crawford; M. M. Rahman; E. Kurtoglu, R. Aksu, T. Macks, R. Mdrafi
        IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 3763-3775, 1 Feb.1, 2021

32.   Integration of Smartphones into Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems to Sense Water in Soil by Using Reflected GPS Signals
        M. Kurum, M. M. Farhad and A. C. Gurbuz;,
        IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 1048-1059, 2021

2020

31.  Attention-Based Domain Adaptation Using Residual Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
       R. Mdrafi, Q. Du, A. C. Gurbuz, B. Tang, L. Ma and N. H. Younan,
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 13, pp. 6424-6433, 2020

30.  Evaluations of a Machine Learning-based CYGNSS Soil Moisture Estimates against SMAP Observations
       Senyurek, V.; Lei, F.; Boyd, D.; Kurum, M.; Gurbuz, Ali C.; Moorhead, R.
       Remote Sensing, 2020, 12(21), 3480; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213480

29.  SCoBi Multilayer: A Signals of Opportunity Reflectometry Model for Multilayer Dielectric Reflections
        D. R. Boyd, A. C. Gurbuz , M. Kurum, J. L. Garrison,B. R. Nold, J. R. Piepmeier, M. Vega, R. Bindlish
        Remote Sensing, 2020, 12(21), 3480; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213480

28.  Cramer–Rao Lower Bound for SoOp-R-Based Root-Zone Soil Moisture Remote Sensing
       D. R. Boyd, A. C. Gurbuz , M. Kurum, J. L. Garrison,B. R. Nold, J. R. Piepmeier, M. Vega, R. Bindlish
       IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 13, pp. 6101-6114, 2020

27.   Cognitive Radar Target Detection and Tracking with Multifunctional Reconfigurable Antennas
A. C. Gurbuz, R. Mdrafi, B. A. Cetiner
       IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 64-76, 1 June 2020,

26.    Machine Learning-Based CYGNSS Soil Moisture Estimates over ISMN sites in CONUS
       V. Senyurek, F. Lei, D. Boyd, M. Kurum, A. C. Gurbuz, R. Moorhead
       Remote Sensing, 2020, 12, 1168.

25.   Joint Learning of Measurement Matrix and Signal Reconstruction via Deep Learning
       R. Mdrafi, Ali C. Gurbuz
       IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 6, pp. 818-829, 2020,

24.  Off-Grid Aware Channel and Covariance Estimation in mmWave Networks
       C. K. Anjinappa, Ali C. Gurbuz, Y. Yapici, I. Guvenc
       IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3908-3921, June 2020

23.  CRLB based mode selection and enhanced DOA estimation for multifunctional reconfigurable arrays
Ali C. Gurbuz, Bedri A. Cetiner
       Physical Communication, Vol. 38, 100894, 2020.

2007-2019

22. An Internet-Inspired Proportional Fair EV Charging Control Method
      E. Ucer, M. C. Kisacikoglu, M. Yuksel and A. C. Gurbuz
      IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 4292-4302, Dec. 2019.

21.  High Spatio-Temporal Resolution CYGNSS Soil Moisture Estimates Using Artificial Neural Networks
      O. Eroglu, M. Kurum , D. Boyd, and A. C. Gurbuz
      MDPI Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 19, pp.1-32, 2019.

20. Autofocused Spotlight SAR Image Reconstruction of Off-Grid Sparse Scenes
      S. Camlica, A. C. Gurbuz and O. Arikan
      IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1880-1892, Aug. 2017.

19.  Compressive Sensing based Robust Off-the-Grid Stretch Processing
      I. Ilhan, A. C. Gurbuz and O. Arikan
      IET Radar, Sonar Navigation, vol. 11, p. 1730-1735, 2017.

18.  3D imaging for ground-penetrating radars via dictionary dimension reduction
      M. Duman; A.C. Gürbüz
      Tubitak Journal of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, vol. 23, pp. 1242-1256, 2015.

17.  Knowledge Exploitation for Human Micro-Doppler Classification
      C. Karabacak, S.Z. Gurbuz, A.C. Gurbuz, M.B. Guldogan, G. Hendeby, F. Gustafsson
      IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol.12, no.10, pp.2125-2129, Oct. 2015.

16. SAR image reconstruction by expectation maximization based matching pursuit
      S. Ugur, O. Arıkan, A. C. Gürbüz
      Digital Signal Processing, vol. 37, pp. 75-84, February 2015.

15.  A Robust Compressive Sensing Based Technique For Reconstruction of Sparse Radar Scenes
      O. Teke, A. C. Gürbüz, O. Arikan
      Digital Signal Processing, vol. 27, pp. 23-32, 2014.

14.  Perturbed Orthogonal Matching Pursuit
      O. Teke, A. C. Gürbüz, O. Arikan
      IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 24, pp. 6220-6231, December 2013.

13.  Sparse Ground-Penetrating Radar Imaging Method for Off-the-Grid Target Problem
      Ali Cafer Gurbuz; Oguzhan Teke; Orhan Arikan
      J. Electron. Imaging. 22 (2), 021007 (January 31, 2013); doi: 10.1117/1.JEI.22.2.021007

12.  Analysis of Energy Efficiency of Compressive Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks
      C Karakus, A. C. Gürbüz, B Tavli
      IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.13, no.5, pp.1999-2008, May 2013.

11.   Bearing Estimation via Spatial Sparsity Using Compressive Sensing
       Ali Cafer Gürbüz, V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan
      IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol 48, No 2, 2012l. 48, no. 2, pp. 1358-1369, April 2012.

10. Compressive Sensing of Underground Structures using GPR
      Ali Cafer Gürbüz, J. H. McClellan, and W.R. Scott
      Digital Signal Processing, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 66–73

9. Ground Bounce Removal for Compressed Sensing Based GPRs
      Mehmet Ali Çağrı Tuncer, Ali Cafer Gürbüz
      IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 9, No 1, pp. 23 – 27, 2012

8. Performance Analysis of Compressive-Sensing-Based Through-the-Wall Imaging with Effect of Unknown Parameters
      Muhammed Duman and Ali Cafer Gurbuz
      International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2012, Article ID 405145, 11 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/405145

7. Analysis of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Based Subsurface Imaging for Compressive Ground Penetrating Radars
      Mehmet Ali Çağrı Tuncer, Ali Cafer Gürbüz
      Tubitak Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, vol 20, no 6, pp. 979-989, 2012

6.   Determination of Background Distribution for Ground-Penetrating Radar Data
      Ali Cafer Gürbüz
      IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 9, no, 4, pp. 544 – 548, 2012

5.   Line Detection with Adaptive Random Samples
      Ali Cafer Gürbüz
      Turk. J. Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci. Volume 19, pp. 21-32, 2011 

 4.  Detection of Linear and Planar Structures in 3D Subsurface Images by Iterative Dimension Reduction
      Ali Cafer Gürbüz, J. H. McClellan, and W.R. Scott
      Digital Signal Processing, vol. 20, no. 2, Pages: 391-400, March 2010. 

 3.   A Compressive Sensing Data Acquisition and Imaging Method for Stepped-Frequency GPRs
       Ali Cafer Gürbüz, J. H. McClellan, and W.R. Scott
      IEEE Tran. On Signal Processing, Vol. 57(7), Pages: 2640-2650 , July 2009

 2.  Compressive Sensing for Subsurface Imaging using Ground Penetrating Radar
      Ali Cafer Gürbüz, J. H. McClellan, and W.R. Scott
      Signal Processing, Vol. 89(10), Pages: 1959-1972, October 2009
       [2013 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Signal Processing Journal]

 1.   Multistatic Ground-Penetrating Radar Experiments
      T. Counts, Ali. C. Gürbüz, K. Kim, W. R. Scott, Jr and J. H. McClellan
      IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45(8), Page(s): 2544 – 2553, Aug. 2007.


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