Physics-Informed Domain-Invariant Feature Learning with Autoencoder-Driven Gaussian Clustering for Robust Non-line-of-Sight Scenarios
Authors: Nisha L. Raichur, Lucas Heublein, Dominik Seuß, Frank Deinzer, Felix Ott
Abstract
Jamming and spoofing pose significant threats to wireless and satellite navigation by disrupting radio-frequency (RF) signals and compromising availability and integrity. Robust RF interference direction finding through angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation is therefore essential for detecting and localizing anomalous signals. Although data-driven methods perform well under line-of-sight (LoS) conditions, their performance degrades in practical environments due to non-line-of-sight (NLoS) multipath propagation. In this work, we propose a hybrid learning framework that incorporates physics-informed constraints into deep neural networks to improve the robustness of AoA estimation. A neural network is trained to estimate the azimuth and elevation of incoming signals received by a four-element antenna array, while a physics-informed loss enforces consistency between the predicted angles and inter-antenna phase differences under a plane-wave model. We further introduce a latent-space classifier to distinguish LoS from NLoS samples. Since inter-antenna phase differences under LoS propagation exhibit domain-invariant structure across environments, the physics-based loss is applied only to LoS samples, promoting physically consistent and domain-invariant representations without over-constraining the model in NLoS scenarios. In addition, domain-incremental learning (DIL) across NLoS environments with varying scatterer distributions improves cross-domain generalization. Evaluations on real-world datasets show that the proposed method reduces AoA estimation error by up to 6° in low-exemplar settings compared with DIL baselines.
Reconstructing object geometry from radio frequency (RF) signals is fundamentally challenging due to the lensless imaging nature of RF sensing, which leads to low spatial resolution and high noise. Unlike light signals, RF signals can penetrate occlusions and thus capture information about hidden scenes. Existing Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) 3D neural reconstruction methods can recover coarse surfaces inside enclosed environments but often suffer from unstable optimization, noisy surface geometry, and surface ambiguity, failing to produce accurate zero-level sets from the signed distance field (SDF). These limitations largely stem from neglecting the role of Line-of-Sight (LoS) geometry outside the enclosed region, which provides valuable physical constraints for modeling signal propagation. In this paper, we introduce a Unified LoS and NLoS neural geometry reconstruction framework GeRaF 2.0 that leverages the outside LoS geometry to model and guide RF propagation from the LoS region into the NLoS region. By integrating visual LoS priors into the neural field formulation, GeRaF 2.0 achieves stable training and physically consistent reconstruction of both visible and hidden geometry, setting a new state-of-the-art in RF-based geometry reconstruction.
Localization in 5G and 6G networks is essential for important use cases such as intelligent transportation, smart factories, and smart cities. Although deep learning has enabled improving localization accuracy, depending on the deployment scenario and the effort required for dataset collection campaigns on a given infrastructure, the training process for localization models can vary significantly. Furthermore, with respect to feature selection, recent works have demonstrated the robustness of angle-of-arrival (AoA) based localization. In view of these two points, we propose an adaptive framework for AoA-based localization that consists of two alternative learning strategies, each suited either for large or small training datasets. The proposed framework is evaluated on a real, massive multiple input multiple output (mMIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) outdoor channel state information (CSI) dataset. First, we investigate offline learning when large training datasets are available; we propose a hierarchical framework that first distinguishes between line of sight (LoS) and non line of sight (NLoS) regions and then moves to more fine grained localization in the respective region. This approach provides high-performance localization through accumulated batch retraining and an integrated hyperparameter optimization mechanism. Second, when only a small training dataset is available, an online learning framework is proposed, using incremental tree-based and ensemble-based models for handling streaming data and continuously updating mode, as well as an online few-shot learning model for rapidly initializing new classes from a limited labeled support set. These results showcase that highly accurate robust localization can be achieved incrementally during network operation by exploiting online learning, alleviating the need for large dataset collection campaigns.
Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) interference poses a serious threat to reliable positioning, especially in indoor and multipath-rich environments where source localization is highly challenging. In this paper, we formulate GNSS interference localization as an active sensing problem and propose a reinforcement learning (RL) framework in which an agent sequentially explores the environment to infer the position of an emitter source from radio frequency (RF) observations acquired with a 2x2 patch antenna. The localization task is modeled as a partially observable decision process, since single-snapshot measurements are often ambiguous under multipath propagation and changing channel conditions. To address this, the proposed framework combines high-dimensional RF sensing with deep RL and recurrent policy learning. We investigate both value-based and policy-based approaches, namely Deep Q-Networks (DQN) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), and study their behavior under domain shift. The approach is evaluated on a simulated dataset generated with the Sionna ray-tracing module, which provides realistic propagation effects and diverse environment configurations. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a localization success rate of 80.1, demonstrating the potential of RL for adaptive GNSS interference localization. Overall, the results highlight simulation-assisted training as a promising direction for robust interference localization in challenging propagation environments.
M. Shamail J. Khan, Nisha L. Raichur, Lucas Heublein +5