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Dr. Juan Nogueira-Nine

at Sony Deutschland GmbH

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2011 Paper

Reducing the acquisition time in a single sensor passive millimetre wave (PMMW) imaging system utilizing compressive sensing

Juan Nogueira-Nine, Richard Stirling-Gallacher

Proceedings Volume 8188, 818803 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.897739

KEYWORDS: Compressed sensing, Imaging systems, Sensors, Passive millimeter wave sensors, Antennas, Radiometry, Image restoration, Receivers, Image quality, Wave sensors

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Single sensor passive millimetre wave (PMMW) imaging systems typically suffer from long acquisition times, which inhibit their utilization in some security applications (i.e. concealed weapons detection systems) where real time operation is required. This is inherent to the physical principle behind the system, where the achievable temperature resolution and the integration time are inversely proportional to each other. The longer the sensor can collect (and integrate) energy radiated by the scene at each position, the finer the temperature resolution becomes. Reducing the integration time without degrading the temperature resolution can be achieved by increasing the bandwidth of the radiometer, but this is possible only up to certain limits. We propose to reduce the acquisition time in such a single sensor, by combining the recent theory of compressive sensing with special sparse trajectories, designed to achieve the level of incoherence that the theory of compressive sensing requires to successfully recover the image. Another alternative proposal is to sample all the pixels in the scene, but for each pixel, the integration time is randomly selected from a pool of discrete possible values. The radiometric image is then reconstructed by combining the images obtained from the individual application of compressive sensing to each group of pixels having the same integration time. For demonstration purposes, a single pixel PMMW imaging simulator has been implemented in Matlab/Simulink, which includes a configurable radiometric scene generator. The paper presents results from simulated radiometric scenes at 140GHz acquired with the proposed sparse trajectories and recovered using compressive sensing. The results show that savings in acquisition times between 50% and 70% are possible while maintaining the required temperature resolution.

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