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Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar with Dynamic Metasurfaces
We investigate the use of a dynamic metasurface as the transmitting antenna
for a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging system. The dynamic metasurface
consists of a one-dimensional microstrip waveguide with complementary electric
resonator (cELC) elements patterned into the upper conductor. Integrated into
each of the cELCs are two diodes that can be used to shift each cELC resonance
out of band with an applied voltage. The aperture is designed to operate at K
band frequencies (17.5 to 20.3 GHz), with a bandwidth of 2.8 GHz. We
experimentally demonstrate imaging with a fabricated metasurface aperture using
existing SAR modalities, showing image quality comparable to traditional
antennas. The agility of this aperture allows it to operate in spotlight and
stripmap SAR modes, as well as in a third modality inspired by computational
imaging strategies. We describe its operation in detail, demonstrate
high-quality imaging in both 2D and 3D, and examine various trade-offs
governing the integration of dynamic metasurfaces in future SAR imaging
platforms
Novel Hybrid-Learning Algorithms for Improved Millimeter-Wave Imaging Systems
Increasing attention is being paid to millimeter-wave (mmWave), 30 GHz to 300
GHz, and terahertz (THz), 300 GHz to 10 THz, sensing applications including
security sensing, industrial packaging, medical imaging, and non-destructive
testing. Traditional methods for perception and imaging are challenged by novel
data-driven algorithms that offer improved resolution, localization, and
detection rates. Over the past decade, deep learning technology has garnered
substantial popularity, particularly in perception and computer vision
applications. Whereas conventional signal processing techniques are more easily
generalized to various applications, hybrid approaches where signal processing
and learning-based algorithms are interleaved pose a promising compromise
between performance and generalizability. Furthermore, such hybrid algorithms
improve model training by leveraging the known characteristics of radio
frequency (RF) waveforms, thus yielding more efficiently trained deep learning
algorithms and offering higher performance than conventional methods. This
dissertation introduces novel hybrid-learning algorithms for improved mmWave
imaging systems applicable to a host of problems in perception and sensing.
Various problem spaces are explored, including static and dynamic gesture
classification; precise hand localization for human computer interaction;
high-resolution near-field mmWave imaging using forward synthetic aperture
radar (SAR); SAR under irregular scanning geometries; mmWave image
super-resolution using deep neural network (DNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT)
architectures; and data-level multiband radar fusion using a novel
hybrid-learning architecture. Furthermore, we introduce several novel
approaches for deep learning model training and dataset synthesis.Comment: PhD Dissertation Submitted to UTD ECE Departmen
Emerging Approaches for THz Array Imaging: A Tutorial Review and Software Tool
Accelerated by the increasing attention drawn by 5G, 6G, and Internet of
Things applications, communication and sensing technologies have rapidly
evolved from millimeter-wave (mmWave) to terahertz (THz) in recent years.
Enabled by significant advancements in electromagnetic (EM) hardware, mmWave
and THz frequency regimes spanning 30 GHz to 300 GHz and 300 GHz to 3000 GHz,
respectively, can be employed for a host of applications. The main feature of
THz systems is high-bandwidth transmission, enabling ultra-high-resolution
imaging and high-throughput communications; however, challenges in both the
hardware and algorithmic arenas remain for the ubiquitous adoption of THz
technology. Spectra comprising mmWave and THz frequencies are well-suited for
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging at sub-millimeter resolutions for a wide
spectrum of tasks like material characterization and nondestructive testing
(NDT). This article provides a tutorial review of systems and algorithms for
THz SAR in the near-field with an emphasis on emerging algorithms that combine
signal processing and machine learning techniques. As part of this study, an
overview of classical and data-driven THz SAR algorithms is provided, focusing
on object detection for security applications and SAR image super-resolution.
We also discuss relevant issues, challenges, and future research directions for
emerging algorithms and THz SAR, including standardization of system and
algorithm benchmarking, adoption of state-of-the-art deep learning techniques,
signal processing-optimized machine learning, and hybrid data-driven signal
processing algorithms...Comment: Submitted to Proceedings of IEE
Phaseless computational imaging with a radiating metasurface
Computational imaging modalities support a simplification of the active
architectures required in an imaging system and these approaches have been
validated across the electromagnetic spectrum. Recent implementations have
utilized pseudo-orthogonal radiation patterns to illuminate an object of
interest---notably, frequency-diverse metasurfaces have been exploited as fast
and low-cost alternative to conventional coherent imaging systems. However,
accurately measuring the complex-valued signals in the frequency domain can be
burdensome, particularly for sub-centimeter wavelengths. Here, computational
imaging is studied under the relaxed constraint of intensity-only measurements.
A novel 3D imaging system is conceived based on 'phaseless' and compressed
measurements, with benefits from recent advances in the field of phase
retrieval. In this paper, the methodology associated with this novel principle
is described, studied, and experimentally demonstrated in the microwave range.
A comparison of the estimated images from both complex valued and phaseless
measurements are presented, verifying the fidelity of phaseless computational
imaging.Comment: 18 pages, 18 figures, articl
์ค์๊ฐ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ํ๋ฅผ ์ํ MIMO ์ญํฉ์ฑ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ ์ด๋ ์์คํ
ํ์๋
ผ๋ฌธ(๋ฐ์ฌ) -- ์์ธ๋ํ๊ต๋ํ์ : ๊ณต๊ณผ๋ํ ์ ๊ธฐยท์ ๋ณด๊ณตํ๋ถ, 2022. 8. ๋จ์์ฑ.Microwave and millimeter wave (micro/mmW) imaging systems have advantages over other imaging systems in that they have penetration properties over non-metallic structures and non-ionization. However, these systems are commercially applicable in limited areas. Depending on the quality and size of the images, a system can be expensive and images cannot be provided in real-time. To overcome the challenges of the current micro/mmW imaging system, it is critical to suggest a new system concept and prove its potential benefits and hazards by demonstrating the testbed. This dissertation presents Ku1DMIC, a wide-band micro/mmW imaging system using Ku-band and 1D-MIMO array, which can overcome the challenges above. For cost-effective 3D imaging capabilities, Ku1DMIC uses 1D-MIMO array configuration and inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) technique. At the same time, Ku1DMIC supports real-time data acquisition through a system-level design of a seamless interface with frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. To show the feasibility of 3D imaging with Ku1DMIC and its real-time capabilities, an accelerated imaging algorithm, 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA, is proposed and demonstrated. The detailed contributions of the dissertation are as follows.
First, this dissertation presents Ku1DMIC โ a Ku-band MIMO frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar experimental platform with real-time 2D near-field imaging capabilities. The proposed system uses Ku-band to cover the wider illumination area given the limited number of antennas and uses a fast ramp and wide-band FMCW waveform for rapid radar data acquisition while providing high-resolution images. The key design aspect behind the platform is stability, reconfigurability, and real-time capabilities, which allows investigating the exploration of the systemโs strengths and weaknesses. To satisfy the design aspect, a digitally assisted platform is proposed and realized based on an AMD-Xilinx UltraScale+ Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC). The experimental investigation for real-time 2D imaging has proved the ability of video-rate imaging at around 60 frames per second.
Second, a waveform digital pre-distortion (DPD) method and calibration method are proposed to enhance the image quality. Even if a clean FMCW waveform is generated with the aid of the optimized waveform generator, the signal will inevitably suffer from distortion, especially in the RF subsystem of the platform. In near-field imaging applications, the waveform DPD is not effective at suppressing distortion in wide-band FMCW radar systems. To solve this issue, the LO-DPD architecture and binary search based DPD algorithm are proposed to make the waveform DPD effective in Ku1DMIC. Furthermore, an image-domain optimization correction method is proposed to compensate for the remaining errors that cannot be eliminated by the waveform DPD. For robustness to various unwanted signals such as noise and clutter signals, two regularized least squares problems are applied and compared: the generalized Tikhonov regularization and the total variation (TV) regularization. Through various 2D imaging experiments, it is confirmed that both methods can enhance the image quality by reducing the sidelobe level.
Lastly, the research is conducted to realize real-time 3D imaging by applying the ISAR technique to Ku1DMIC. The realization of real-time 3D imaging using 1D-MIMO array configuration is impactful in that this configuration can significantly reduce the costs of the 3D imaging system and enable imaging of moving objects. To this end, the signal model for the 1D-MIMO-ISAR configuration is presented, and then the 1D-MIMO-ISAR range stacking algorithm (RSA) is proposed to accelerate the imaging reconstruction process. The proposed 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA can reconstruct images within hundreds of milliseconds while maintaining almost the same image quality as the back-projection algorithm, bringing potential use for real-time 3D imaging. It also describes strategies for setting ROI, considering the real-world situations in which objects enter and exit the field of view, and allocating GPU memory. Extensive simulations and experiments have demonstrated the feasibility and potential benefits of 1D-MIMO-IASR configuration and 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA.๋ง์ดํฌ๋กํ ๋ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธํฐํ(micro/mmW) ์์ํ ์์คํ
์ ๋น๊ธ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ ๋ฐ ๋น์ด์จํ์ ๋นํด ์นจํฌ ํน์ฑ์ด ์๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์์คํ
์ ๋นํด ์ฅ์ ์ด ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์คํ
์ ์ ํ๋ ์์ญ์์๋ง ์์
์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ฉ๋๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ํ์ง๊ณผ ํฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์์คํ
์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ผ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ฅผ ์ค์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ณตํ ์ ์๋ ํํฉ์ด๋ค.
ํ์ฌ์ micro/mmW ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์์คํ
์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ๋ ค๋ฉด ์๋ก์ด ์์คํ
๊ฐ๋
์ ์ ์ํ๊ณ ํ
์คํธ๋ฒ ๋๋ฅผ ์์ฐํ์ฌ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ์ํ์ ์
์ฆํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํ๋ค.
๋ณธ ๋
ผ๋ฌธ์์๋ Ku-band์ 1D-MIMO ์ด๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํ ๊ด๋์ญ micro/mmW ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์์คํ
์ธ Ku1DMIC๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ์ฌ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ ๊ทน๋ณตํ ์ ์๋ค.
๋น์ฉ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ 3์ฐจ์ ์์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์ํด Ku1DMIC๋ 1D-MIMO ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ISAR(Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ค.
๋์์ Ku1DMIC๋ ์ฃผํ์ ๋ณ์กฐ ์ฐ์ํ (FMCW) ๋ ์ด๋์์ ์ํํ ์ธํฐํ์ด์ค์ ์์คํ
์์ค ์ค๊ณ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ค์๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ์์ง์ ์ง์ํ๋ค.
Ku1DMIC๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ 3์ฐจ์ ์์ํ์ ๊ตฌํ ๋ฐ ์ค์๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ํด, 2์ฐจ์ ์์ํ๋ฅผ ์ํ 1D-MIMO RSA๊ณผ 3์ฐจ์ ์์ํ๋ฅผ ์ํ 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA๊ฐ ์ ์๋๊ณ Ku1DMIC์์ ๊ตฌํ๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ผ์, ๋ณธ ํ์ ๋
ผ๋ฌธ์ ์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ Ku-band 1D-MIMO ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์์ํ ์์คํ
ํ๋กํ ํ์
์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐ ํ
์คํธํ๊ณ , ISAR ๊ธฐ๋ฐ 3์ฐจ์ ์์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ฒ์ฌํ๊ณ , ์ค์๊ฐ 3์ฐจ์ ์์ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์กฐ์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
์ด์ ๋ํ ์ธ๋ถ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ฌ ํญ๋ชฉ์ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ค.
์ฒซ์งธ, ์ค์๊ฐ 2D ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ฅ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ถ Ku ๋์ญ MIMO ์ฃผํ์ ๋ณ์กฐ ์ฐ์ํ(FMCW) ๋ ์ด๋ ์คํ ํ๋ซํผ์ธ Ku1DMIC๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
์ ์ํ๋ ์์คํ
์ ์ ํ๋ ์์ ์ํ
๋์์ ๋ ๋์ ์กฐ๋ช
์์ญ์ ์ปค๋ฒํ๊ธฐ ์ํด Ku ๋์ญ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ณ ๊ณ ํด์๋ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉด์ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ์์ง์ ์ํด ๊ณ ์ ๋จํ ๋ฐ ๊ด๋์ญ FMCW ํํ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ค.
ํ๋ซํผ์ ํต์ฌ ์ค๊ณ ์์น์ ์์ ์ฑ, ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ๋ฐ ์ค์๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ผ๋ก ์์คํ
์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ฝ์ ์ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ๊ฒ ํ์ํ๋ค.
์ค๊ณ ์์น์ ๋ง์กฑ์ํค๊ธฐ ์ํด AMD-Xilinx UltraScale+ RFSoC(Radio Frequency System on Chip)๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋์งํธ ์ง์ ํ๋ซํผ์ ์ ์ํ๊ณ ๊ตฌํํ๋ค.
์ค์๊ฐ 2D ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ๋ํ ์คํ์ ์กฐ์ฌ๋ ์ด๋น ์ฝ 60ํ๋ ์์์ ๋น๋์ค ์๋ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ์
์ฆํ๋ค.
๋์งธ, ์์ ํ์ง ํฅ์์ ์ํ ํํ ๋์งํธ ์ ์น์๊ณก(DPD) ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๊ณผ ๋ณด์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
์ต์ ํ๋ ํํ ๋ฐ์๊ธฐ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ๊นจ๋ํ FMCW ํํ์ด ์์ฑ๋๋๋ผ๋ ํนํ ํ๋ซํผ์ RF ํ์ ์์คํ
์์ ์ ํธ๋ ํ์ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณก์ ๊ฒช๊ฒ๋๋ค.
๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ํ ์์ฉ ๋ถ์ผ์์๋ ํํ DPD๋ ๊ด๋์ญ FMCW ๋ ์ด๋ ์์คํ
์ ์๊ณก์ ์ต์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์ง ์๋ค.
์ด ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ํด๊ฒฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํด Ku1DMIC์์ ํํ DPD๊ฐ ์ ํจํ๋๋ก LO-DPD ์ํคํ
์ฒ์ ์ด์ง ํ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ DPD ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
๋ํ, ํํ DPD๋ก ์ ๊ฑฐํ ์ ์๋ ๋๋จธ์ง ์ค๋ฅ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์์ญ ์ต์ ํ ๋ณด์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
๋
ธ์ด์ฆ ๋ฐ ํด๋ฌํฐ ์ ํธ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ํ ์์น ์๋ ์ ํธ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ์ฑ์ ์ํด ์ผ๋ฐํ๋ Tikhonov ์ ๊ทํ ๋ฐ ์ ์ฒด ๋ณ๋(TV) ์ ๊ทํ๋ผ๋ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ๊ทํ๋ ์ต์ ์์น ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ์ฉ ํ ๋น๊ตํ๋ค.
๋ค์ํ 2์ฐจ์ ์์ํ ์คํ์ ํตํด ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ์ฝ ๋ ๋ฒจ์ ์ค์ฌ ํ์ง์ ํฅ์์ํฌ ์ ์์์ ํ์ธํ๋ค.
๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ISAR ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ 2์ฐจ์ ์์ ํ๋ซํผ์ ์ ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ค์๊ฐ 3์ฐจ์ ์์์ ๊ตฌํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์งํํ๋ค.
1D-MIMO-ISAR ๊ตฌ์ฑ์์ ์ค์๊ฐ 3D ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ๊ตฌํ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ด 3D ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์์คํ
์ ๋น์ฉ์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ค์ผ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ๋
ผ๋ฌธ์์๋ 1D-MIMO-ISAR ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด 1D-MIMO-ISAR ๋ฒ์ ์คํํน ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ(RSA)์ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
์ ์๋ 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA๋ ๋๋ฆฌ ์๋ ค์ง Back-Projection ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋์ผํ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ํ์ง์ ์ ์งํ๋ฉด์๋ ์๋ฐฑ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ด ์ด๋ด์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ค์๊ฐ ์์ํ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค.
๋ํ ๋ฌผ์ฒด๊ฐ ์์ผ์ ๋ค์ด์ค๊ณ ๋๊ฐ๋ ์ค์ ์ํฉ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ROI ์ค์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ํ ๋น์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ต์ ์ค๋ช
ํ๋ค.
๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ์๋ฎฌ๋ ์ด์
๊ณผ ์คํ์ ํตํด 1D-MIMO-IASR ๊ตฌ์ฑ ๋ฐ 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ด์ ์ ํ์ธํ๋ค.1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Microwave and millimeter-wave imaging 1
1.2 Imaging with radar system 2
1.3 Challenges and motivation 5
1.4 Outline of the dissertation 8
2 FUNDAMENTAL OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING USING A MIMO RADAR 9
2.1 Signal model 9
2.2 Consideration of waveform 12
2.3 Image reconstruction algorithm 16
2.3.1 Back-projection algorithm 16
2.3.2 1D-MIMO range-migration algorithm 20
2.3.3 1D-MIMO range stacking algorithm 27
2.4 Sampling criteria and resolution 31
2.5 Simulation results 36
3 MIMO-FMCW RADAR IMPLEMENTATION WITH 16 TX - 16 RX ONE- DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS 46
3.1 Wide-band FMCW waveform generator architecture 46
3.2 Overall system architecture 48
3.3 Antenna and RF transceiver module 53
3.4 Wide-band FMCW waveform generator 55
3.5 FPGA-based digital hardware design 63
3.6 System integration and software design 71
3.7 Testing and measurement 75
3.7.1 Chirp waveform measurement 75
3.7.2 Range profile measurement 77
3.7.3 2-D imaging test 79
4 METHODS OF IMAGE QUALITY ENHANCEMENT 84
4.1 Signal model 84
4.2 Digital pre-distortion of chirp signal 86
4.2.1 Proposed DPD hardware system 86
4.2.2 Proposed DPD algorithm 88
4.2.3 Measurement results 90
4.3 Robust calibration method for signal distortion 97
4.3.1 Signal model 98
4.3.2 Problem formulation 99
4.3.3 Measurement results 105
5 THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING USING 1-D ARRAY SYSTEM AND ISAR TECHNIQUE 110
5.1 Formulation for 1D-MIMO-ISAR RSA 111
5.2 Algorithm implementation 114
5.3 Simulation results 120
5.4 Experimental results 122
6 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 127
6.1 Conclusions 127
6.2 Future work 129
6.2.1 Effects of antenna polarization in the Ku-band 129
6.2.2 Forward-looking near-field ISAR configuration 130
6.2.3 Estimation of the movement errors in ISAR configuration 131
Abstract (In Korean) 145
Acknowlegement 148๋ฐ
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Sparse Reconstruction for Near-Field MIMO Radar Imaging Using Fast Multipole Method
Radar imaging using multiple input multiple output systems are becoming popular recently. These applications typically contain a sparse scene and the imaging system is challenged by the requirement of high quality real-time image reconstruction from under-sampled measurements via compressive sensing. In this paper, we deal with obtaining sparse solution to near- field radar imaging problems by developing efficient sparse reconstruction, which avoid storing and using large-scale sensing matrices. We demonstrate that the "fast multipole method" can be employed within sparse reconstruction algorithms to efficiently compute the sensing operator and its adjoint (backward) operator, hence improving the computation speed and memory usage, especially for large-scale 3-D imaging problems. For several near-field imaging scenarios including point scatterers and 2-D/3-D extended targets, the performances of sparse reconstruction algorithms are numerically tested in comparison with a classical solver. Furthermore, effectiveness of the fast multipole method and efficient reconstruction are illustrated in terms of memory requirement and processing time
Towards Large-scale Single-shot Millimeter-wave Imaging for Low-cost Security Inspection
Millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging is emerging as a promising technique for safe
security inspection. It achieves a delicate balance between imaging resolution,
penetrability and human safety, resulting in higher resolution compared to
low-frequency microwave, stronger penetrability compared to visible light, and
stronger safety compared to X ray. Despite of recent advance in the last
decades, the high cost of requisite large-scale antenna array hinders
widespread adoption of MMW imaging in practice. To tackle this challenge, we
report a large-scale single-shot MMW imaging framework using sparse antenna
array, achieving low-cost but high-fidelity security inspection under an
interpretable learning scheme. We first collected extensive full-sampled MMW
echoes to study the statistical ranking of each element in the large-scale
array. These elements are then sampled based on the ranking, building the
experimentally optimal sparse sampling strategy that reduces the cost of
antenna array by up to one order of magnitude. Additionally, we derived an
untrained interpretable learning scheme, which realizes robust and accurate
image reconstruction from sparsely sampled echoes. Last, we developed a neural
network for automatic object detection, and experimentally demonstrated
successful detection of concealed centimeter-sized targets using 10% sparse
array, whereas all the other contemporary approaches failed at the same sample
sampling ratio. The performance of the reported technique presents higher than
50% superiority over the existing MMW imaging schemes on various metrics
including precision, recall, and mAP50. With such strong detection ability and
order-of-magnitude cost reduction, we anticipate that this technique provides a
practical way for large-scale single-shot MMW imaging, and could advocate its
further practical applications
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