An airborne/missile-borne array radar forward-looking imaging algorithm based on super-resolution method

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Daiyin Zhu ◽  
Penghui Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Super Resolution ◽  
Resolution Method ◽  
Imaging Algorithm ◽  
Forward Looking

scholarly journals A Novel Bayesian Super-Resolution Method for Radar Forward-Looking Imaging Based on Markov Random Field Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 4115
Author(s):  
Ke Tan ◽  
Xingyu Lu ◽  
Jianchao Yang ◽  
Weimin Su ◽  
Hong Gu
Keyword(s):  
Random Field ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Markov Random Field ◽  
Prior Information ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Resolution Method ◽  
Markov Random ◽  
Shrinkage Method ◽  
Forward Looking

Super-resolution technology is considered as an efficient approach to promote the image quality of forward-looking imaging radar. However, super-resolution technology is inherently an ill-conditioned issue, whose solution is quite susceptible to noise. Bayesian method can efficiently alleviate this issue through utilizing prior knowledge of the imaging process, in which the scene prior information plays a pretty significant role in ensuring the imaging accuracy. In this paper, we proposed a novel Bayesian super-resolution method on the basis of Markov random field (MRF) model. Compared with the traditional super-resolution method which is focused on one-dimensional (1-D) echo processing, the MRF model adopted in this study strives to exploit the two-dimensional (2-D) prior information of the scene. By using the MRF model, the 2-D spatial structural characteristics of the imaging scene can be well described and utilized by the nth-order neighborhood system. Then, the imaging objective function can be constructed through the maximum a posterior (MAP) framework. Finally, an accelerated iterative threshold/shrinkage method is utilized to cope with the objective function. Validation experiments using both synthetic echo and measured data are designed, and results demonstrate that the new MAP-MRF method exceeds other benchmarking approaches in terms of artifacts suppression and contour recovery.

scholarly journals A Superfast Super-Resolution Method for Radar Forward-Looking Imaging

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 817
Author(s):  
Weibo Huo ◽  
Qiping Zhang ◽  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Yongchao Zhang ◽  
Yulin Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Coefficient Matrix ◽  
Resolution Method ◽  
The Real ◽  
L1 Regularization ◽  
Regularization Problem ◽  
Azimuth Resolution ◽  
Forward Looking

The super-resolution method has been widely used for improving azimuth resolution for radar forward-looking imaging. Typically, it can be achieved by solving an undifferentiable L1 regularization problem. The split Bregman algorithm (SBA) is a great tool for solving this undifferentiable problem. However, its real-time imaging ability is limited to matrix inversion and iterations. Although previous studies have used the special structure of the coefficient matrix to reduce the computational complexity of each iteration, the real-time performance is still limited due to the need for hundreds of iterations. In this paper, a superfast SBA (SFSBA) is proposed to overcome this shortcoming. Firstly, the super-resolution problem is transmitted into an L1 regularization problem in the framework of regularization. Then, the proposed SFSBA is used to solve the nondifferentiable L1 regularization problem. Different from the traditional SBA, the proposed SFSBA utilizes the low displacement rank features of Toplitz matrix, along with the Gohberg-Semencul (GS) representation to realize fast inversion of the coefficient matrix, reducing the computational complexity of each iteration from O(N3) to O(N2). It uses a two-order vector extrapolation strategy to reduce the number of iterations. The convergence speed is increased by about 8 times. Finally, the simulation and real data processing results demonstrate that the proposed SFSBA can effectively improve the azimuth resolution of radar forward-looking imaging, and its performance is only slightly lower compared to traditional SBA. The hardware test shows that the computational efficiency of the proposed SFSBA is much higher than that of other traditional super-resolution methods, which would meet the real-time requirements in practice.

scholarly journals Penalized Maximum Likelihood Angular Super-Resolution Method for Scanning Radar Forward-Looking Imaging

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Tan ◽  
Wenchao Li ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Yulin Huang ◽  
Junjie Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Resolution Method ◽  
Penalized Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Forward Looking

TV-Sparse Super-Resolution Method for Radar Forward-Looking Imaging

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 6534-6549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiping Zhang ◽  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Yulin Huang ◽  
Yongchao Zhang ◽  
Jifang Pei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Super Resolution ◽  
Resolution Method ◽  
Forward Looking
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