ISAC-TWG Webinar: Fundamentals of Radio Imaging for ISAC: Methods, Synchronization and New Frontiers
Date: 05 June 2025
Time: 9:30 AM ET
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
About this topic:
Integrated sensing and Communication (ISAC) is emerging as a foundational component of next-generation wireless networks, marking a paradigm shift by integrating two distinct functionalities—sensing and communication—into a single platform with fully shared hardware and radio resources. In the ISAC community, the term “sensing” is frequently used interchangeably with “localization”, which refers to the estimation of meaningful parameters that describe the state of target objects, such as their position, velocity, and potentially orientation. Recently, ISAC research has increasingly focused on radio imaging, which involves generating 2D or 3D reflectivity maps of the environment at the operating carrier frequency. From these maps, the number, shape, and other characteristics of targets follow detection and subsequent image analysis and interpretation. The webinar starts by covering the fundamentals of coherent radio imaging, outlining and discussing the diffraction tomography theory and the related principles, that rule the resolution of any multistatic radio sensing system. Then, the presenter discusses fundamental signal processing methods for the integration of coherent imaging into communication networks, focusing on practical synchronization techniques and outlining new frontiers.
About the presenter:
Dario Tagliaferri (M‘15) received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degrees in telecommunication engineering (with honors) and the Ph.D. in information technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2012, 2015 and 2019 respectively.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in the framework of Huawei-Polimi Joint Research Lab and the Italian National Resilience Plan (PNRR project "RESTART"). His research interests comprise signal processing techniques for wireless communication and sensing systems. Specific research topics include integrated sensing and communication systems, networked sensing and related synchronization aspects as well as intelligent reflecting surfaces.
Dr. Tagliaferri holds four patents in the field of signal processing for communication and sensing. He was the co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards from the 1st IEEE International Online Symposium on Joint Communication and Sensing (2021), the EuMA Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (2022) and the ICC Workshop on Near-Field Communications, Localization and Sensing (2024). The paper "Deep Learning of Transferable MIMO Channel Modes for 6G V2X Communications," published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation has been selected as a Featured Paper for the 75th Anniversary of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He served as a TPC member in VTC Spring (2022, 2023), IEEE SPAWC, IEEE PIMRC (2024) and IEEE PIMRC (2025) and TPC chair for the 6th IEEE International Online Symposium on Joint Communication and Sensing (2026). Starting from 2024, he serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters.
Reference papers:
[REF1] D. Tagliaferri, M. Manzoni, M. Mizmizi, S. Tebaldini, A.V. Monti-Guarnieri, C.M. Prati, U. Spagnolini "Cooperative Coherent Multistatic Imaging and Phase Synchronization in Networked Sensing," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414609
[REF2] M. Manzoni, D. Tagliaferri, S.Tebaldini, M.Mizmizi, A.V. Monti-Guarnieri, C.M. Prati, U. Spagnolini., "Wavefield Networked Sensing: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. 181-197, 2025, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3521359
