Experimental methods of indoor millimeter-wave radiometric imaging for personnel concealed contraband detection

Taiyang Hu; Zelong Xiao; Hao Li; Rongchuan Lv; Xuan Lu

doi:10.1117/12.2073356

11 November 2014 Experimental methods of indoor millimeter-wave radiometric imaging for personnel concealed contraband detection

Taiyang Hu, Zelong Xiao, Hao Li, Rongchuan Lv, Xuan Lu

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Proceedings Volume 9275, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies III; 92751G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073356
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2014, Beijing, China

Abstract

The increasingly emerging terrorism attacks and violence crimes around the world have posed severe threats to public security, so carrying out relevant research on advanced experimental methods of personnel concealed contraband detection is crucial and meaningful. All of the advantages of imaging covertly, avoidance of interference with other systems, intrinsic property of being safe to persons under screening , and the superior ability of imaging through natural or manmade obscurants, have significantly combined to enable millimeter-wave (MMW) radiometric imaging to offer great potential in personnel concealed contraband detection. Based upon the current research status of MMW radiometric imaging and urgent demands of personnel security screening, this paper mainly focuses on the experimental methods of indoor MMW radiometric imaging. The reverse radiation noise resulting from super-heterodyne receivers seriously affects the image experiments carried out at short range, so both the generation mechanism and reducing methods of this noise are investigated. Then, the benefit of sky illumination no longer exists for the indoor radiometric imaging, and this leads to the decrease in radiometric temperature contrast between target and background. In order to enhance the radiometric temperature contrast for improving indoor imaging performance, the noise illumination technique is adopted in the indoor imaging scenario. In addition, the speed and accuracy of concealed contraband detection from acquired MMW radiometric images are usually restricted to the deficiencies in traditional artificial interpretation by security inspectors, thus an automatic recognition and location algorithm by integrating improved Fuzzy C-means clustering with moment invariants is put forward. A series of original results are also presented to demonstrate the significance and validity of these methods.

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Taiyang Hu, Zelong Xiao, Hao Li, Rongchuan Lv, and Xuan Lu "Experimental methods of indoor millimeter-wave radiometric imaging for personnel concealed contraband detection", Proc. SPIE 9275, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies III, 92751G (11 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073356

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