Towards Large-scale Single-shot Millimeter-wave Imaging for Low-cost Security Inspection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15750v2
• Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:36:39 GMT
• Title: Towards Large-scale Single-shot Millimeter-wave Imaging for Low-cost Security Inspection
• Authors: Liheng Bian, Daoyu Li, Shuoguang Wang, Chunyang Teng, Huteng Liu, Hanwen Xu, Xuyang Chang, Guoqiang Zhao, Shiyong Li, Jun Zhang
• Abstract summary: Millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging is emerging as a promising technique for safe security inspection. Despite of recent advance, the high cost of requisite large-scale antenna array hinders widespread adoption of MMW imaging in practice. We report a large-scale single-shot MMW imaging framework using sparse antenna array, achieving low-cost but high-fidelity security inspection.
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• Abstract: 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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