Zhibin Yue

Dr. Zhibin Yue


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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1 January 2026 in IEEE Communications Letters
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HLHan Li
Han Li
WHWu Haoran
Wu Haoran
TJTang Jinsong
Tang Jinsong
ZYZhibin Yue
Zhibin Yue

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JTJinsong Tang
Jinsong Tang
HZHeping Zhong
Heping Zhong
HWHaoran Wu
Haoran Wu
HLHan Li
Han Li
MZMeng Zhao
Meng Zhao
To address the issue of phase mismatch, mainlobe broadening, image defocusing, and high computational complexity caused by spherical wavefront propagation in near-field imaging of uniform linear array (ULA) imaging sonar, this paper proposes an interpolation-free near-field frequency-domain beamforming algorithm for uniform linear arrays. Under the considered operating conditions, the exact range history is approximated as the sum of a range-dependent quadratic term and a range-independent linear term with respect to the element position. The quadratic term produces negligible envelope migration; therefore, only its phase needs to be compensated. By contrast, the linear term produces more significant range migration, which is corrected together with its associated phase through range-domain and azimuth-domain FFT processing. Under the adopted range-history approximation and discrete sampling conditions, this implementation avoids the explicit point-by-point fractional-delay interpolation required by the backprojection (BP) algorithm. The proposed method substantially reduces the computational cost while maintaining near-field focusing performance comparable to that of the BP algorithm. For the simulated data, the runtime is reduced from 58.23 s to 0.41 s, with only a 0.1% broadening of the azimuth impulse-response width and a 0.11 dB degradation in the peak sidelobe ratio. For the measured lake-trial data, the runtime is reduced from 50.18 s to 0.29 s.