Deep learning-based reconstruction for near-field MIMO radar imaging


Manisali I., ÖKTEM S. F.

31st European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2023, Helsinki, Finlandiya, 4 - 08 Eylül 2023, ss.481-485 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.23919/eusipco58844.2023.10289867
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Helsinki
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Finlandiya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.481-485
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: computational imaging, deep learning, inverse problems, microwave imaging, MIMO, radar imaging
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar imaging systems are of interest in diverse fields such as medicine, through-wall imaging, and surveillance. The imaging performance of these systems highly depends on the underlying image reconstruction method. While sparsity-based methods offer better image quality than the traditional direct inversion methods, their high computational cost is undesirable in real-time applications. In this paper, we develop a novel deep learning-based reconstruction method for near-field MIMO radar imaging. The main goal is to achieve high image quality with low computational cost. The developed approach has a two-staged structure. The physics-based first stage performs adjoint operation to back project the measurements to the reconstruction space, and DNN-based second stage converts these backprojected measurements to a scene reflectivity image. As DNN, a 3D U-Net is used to jointly exploit range and cross-range correlations. We illustrate the performance of the reconstruction method using a synthetically generated dataset. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed method compared to commonly used analytical approaches in terms of image quality and computation time.