Publications

Please find the list of my peer-refereed publications below. For complete citation information, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

  1. R. Seifullaev, S. Knorn, A. Ahlén, and R. Hostettler, “Reinforcement learning based transmission policies for energy harvesting powered sensors,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2024, to Appear.

  2. O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, Y. Ge, H. Kim, J. Talvitie, H. Wymeersch, and M. Valkama, “A multi-hypotheses importance density for SLAM in cluttered scenarios,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024, to appear.

  3. W. Birk, R. Hostettler, M. Razi, K. Atta, and R. Tammia, “Automatic generation and updating of process industrial digital twins for estimation and control - a review,” Frontiers in Control Engineering, vol. 3, August 2022.

  4. Z. Zhao, T. Karvonen, R. Hostettler, and S. Särkkä, “Taylor moment expansion for continuous-discrete Gaussian filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 4460–4467, September 2021

    [Link] [PDF] [arXiv]

  5. O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, H. Yiğitler, and M. Valkama, “Unsupervised learning in RSS-based DFLT using an EM algorithm,” Sensors, vol. 21, no. 16, August 2021.

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  6. O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, and N. Patwari, “A novel Bayesian filter for RSS-based device-free localization and tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 780–795, March 2021.

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  7. R. Hostettler, F. Tronarp, A. F. Garcı́a-Fernández, and S. Särkkä, “Importance densities for particle filtering using iterated conditional expectations,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 27, pp. 211–215, December 2020.

    [Link] [PDF] [Supplement] [Code*]

    *Also requires the EKF/UKF toolbox.

  8. M. Raitoharju, A. F. Garcı́a-Fernández, R. Hostettler, R. Piché and S. Särkkä, “Gaussian mixture models for signal mapping and positioning,” Signal Processing, vol. 168, March 2020.

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  9. H. Yiğitler, O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, A. S. Abrar, R. Jäntti, N. Patwari, and S. Särkkä, “RSS models for respiration rate monitoring,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 3, March 2020.

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  10. E. Brücken, S. Bharthuar, M. Emzir, M. Golovleva, A. Gädda, R. Hostettler, J. Härkönen, S. Kirschenmann, V. Litichevskyi, P. Luukka, L. Martikainen, T. Naaranoja, I. Nincă, J. Ott, H. Petrow, Z. Purisha, T. Siiskonen, S. Särkkä, J. Tikkanen, T. Tuuva, and A. Winkler, “Multispectral photon-counting for medical imaging and beam characterization,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 15, no. 02, February 2020.

    [Link]

  11. A. F. Garcı́a-Fernández, R. Hostettler, and S. Särkkä, “Rao–Blackwellized posterior linearization backward simultaneous localization and mapping,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 4734–4747, May 2019.

    [Link] [PDF]

  12. W. Aftab, R. Hostettler, A. De Freitas, M. Arvaneh, and L. Mihaylova, “Spatio-temporal Gaussian process models for extended and group object tracking with irregular shapes,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 2137–2151, March 2019.

    [Link] [PDF]

  13. R. Hostettler and S. Särkkä, “Rao–Blackwellized Gaussian smoothing,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 302–309, January 2019.

    [Link] [PDF] [Github]

  14. R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, “Maximum likelihood estimation of the non-parametric FRF for pulse-like excitations,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 2276-2281, August 2016

    [Link] [PDF]

  15. R. Hostettler and P. M. Djurić, “Vehicle tracking based on fusion of magnetometer and accelerometer sensor measurements with particle filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 4917–4928, November 2015

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  16. R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, “Joint vehicle trajectory and model parameter estimation using road side sensors,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 5075–5086, September 2015

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  17. R. Hostettler, M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, and W. Birk, “The pavement as a waveguide: Modeling, system identification, and parameter estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 2052–2063, 2014

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  18. N. Wahlström, R. Hostettler, F. Gustafsson, and W. Birk, “Classification of driving direction in traffic surveillance using magnetometers,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1405–1418, 2014

    [Link] [PDF]

  19. R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, “Feasibility of road vibrations-based vehicle property sensing,” IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 356–364, December 2010

    [Link] [PDF]

Conference Contributions

  1. O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, J. Talvitie, and M. Valkama, “Gaussian process for received signal strength based device-free localization,” in 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2024.

  2. M. Raitoharju, R. Hostettler, and S. Särkkä, “Posterior linearisation filter for non-linear state transformation noises,” in 25th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Linköping, Sweden, July 2022.

    [Link] [PDF]

  3. O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, J. Talvitie, Y. Ge, H. Kim, H. Wymeersch, and M. Valkama, “Towards real-time radio-SLAM via optimal importance sampling,” in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Oulu, Finland, July 2022

    [Link] [PDF]

  4. Z. Zhao, F. Tronarp, R. Hostettler, and S. Särkkä, “State-space Gaussian process for drift estimation in stochastic differential equations,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2020

    [Link] [PDF]

  5. R. Hostettler and S. Särkkä, “Rejection-sampling-based ancestor sampling for particle Gibbs,” in 29th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2019

    [Link] [PDF]

  6. R. Hostettler, A. F. Garcı́a-Fernández, F. Tronarp, and S. Särkkä, “Joint calibration of inertial sensors and magnetometers using von Mises-Fisher filtering and expectation maximization,” in 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Ottawa, Canada, July 2019

    [Link] [PDF]

  7. O. Kaltiokallio, R. Hostettler, N. Patwari, and R. Jäntti, “Recursive Bayesian filters for RSS-based device-free localization and tracking,” in 9th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Nantes, France, September 2018

    [Link] [PDF]

  8. F. Tronarp, R. Hostettler, and S. Särkkä, “Continuous-discrete von Mises-Fisher filtering on S^2 for reference vector tracking,” in 21th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Cambridge, UK, July 2018

    [Link] [PDF]

  9. R. Hostettler, T. Lumikari, L. Palva, T. Nieminen, and S. Särkkä, “Motion artifact reduction in ambulatory electrocardiography using inertial measurement units and Kalman filtering,” in 21th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Cambridge, UK, July 2018

    [Link] [PDF]

  10. R. Hostettler and T. B. Schön, “Auxiliary-particle-filter-based two-filter smoothing for Wiener state-space models,” in 21th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Cambridge, UK, July 2018

    [Link] [PDF] [Code] [Github]

  11. R. Hostettler, F. Tronarp, and S. Särkkä, “Modeling the drift function in stochastic differential equations using reduced rank Gaussian processes,” in 18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID), Stockholm, Sweden, July 2018

    [Link] [PDF] [Code]

  12. R. Hostettler, S. Särkkä, and S. J. Godsill, “Rao–Blackwellized particle MCMC for parameter estimation in spatio-temporal Gaussian processes,” in 27th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Tokyo, Japan, September 2017

    [Link] [PDF]

  13. R. Hostettler, O. Kaltiokallio, H. Yiğitler, S. Särkkä, and R. Jäntti, “RSS-based respiratory rate monitoring using periodic Gaussian processes and Kalman filtering,” in 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, Greece, August 2017

    [Link] [PDF]

  14. K. T. Atta, R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and A. Johansson, “Phasor extremum seeking control with adaptive perturbation amplitude,” in 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 2016

    [Link] [PDF]

  15. D. Kleyko, R. Hostettler, N. Lyamin, W. Birk, U. Wiklund, and E. Osipov, “Vehicle classification using road side sensors and feature-free data smashing approach,” in IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2016

    [Link] [PDF]

  16. R. Hostettler and S. Särkkä, “IMU and magnetometer modeling for smartphone-based PDR,” in 7th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 2016

    [Link] [PDF]

  17. F. Tronarp, R. Hostettler, and S. Särkkä, “Sigma-point filtering for nonlinear systems with non-additive heavy-tailed noise,” in 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Heidelberg, Germany, July 2016

    Best Student Paper Award Runner Up

    [Link] [PDF]

  18. R. Hostettler, “A two filter particle smoother for Wiener state-space systems,” in IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Sydney, Australia, September 2015

    [Link] [PDF] [Code] [Github]

  19. D. Kleyko, R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and E. Osipov, “Comparison of machine learning techniques for vehicle classification using road side sensors,” in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Las Palmas, Spain, September 2015

    [Link] [PDF]

  20. A. Alhashimi, R. Hostettler, and T. Gustafsson, “An improvement in the observation model for Monte Carlo localization,” in 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vienna, Austria, September 2014, pp. 498–505

    [Link] [PDF]

  21. R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, “Extended Kalman filter for vehicle tracking using road surface vibration measurements,” in 51st IEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, HI, USA, December 2012, pp. 5643–5648

    [Link] [PDF]

  22. R. Hostettler, M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, and W. Birk, “A system identification approach to modeling of wave propagation in pavements,” in 16th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID), Brussels, Belgium, July 2012

    [Link] [PDF]

  23. N. Wahlström, R. Hostettler, F. Gustafsson, and W. Birk, “Rapid classification of vehicle heading direction with two-axis magnetometer,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012, pp. 3385–3388

    [Link] [PDF]

  24. R. Hostettler and W. Birk, “Analysis of the adaptive threshold vehicle detection algorithm applied to traffic vibrations,” in 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011

    [Link] [PDF]

  25. R. Hostettler, W. Birk, and M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, “Surface mounted vehicle property sensing for cooperative vehicle infrastructure systems,” in 16th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2009

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