학술논문

Experimental Microwave Imaging System Calibration via Cycle-GAN
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on. 71(9):7491-7503 Sep, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Transportation
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Calibration
Generators
Microwave imaging
Generative adversarial networks
Training
Computational modeling
Microwave theory and techniques
cycle-generative adversarial networks (Cycle-GANs)
electromagnetic imaging
microwave imaging (MWI)
Language
ISSN
0018-926X
1558-2221
Abstract
Microwave (or electromagnetic) imaging systems seek a quantitative reconstruction of the target permittivity. Such systems require calibration of the raw $S$ -parameter data. This calibration is especially difficult in some systems where known targets cannot be introduced (e.g., grain bin imaging). Herein we present a machine-learning-based method of calibrating such systems that does not require measuring a known target inside of the imaging chamber. Using a cycle-generative adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) machine-learning network, we show that we can calibrate data from a 2-D scalar microwave imaging (MWI) system and successfully reconstruct targets. Cycle-GAN makes use of two sets of data: experimental and synthetic. Unlike traditional calibration, there is no need for the experimental data to be labeled, i.e., the calibration targets do not need to be “known.” The results show that with an experimental calibration set of roughly 150 targets, the Cycle-GAN approach provides comparable results to known-target calibration for the class of targets we used in this 2-D near-field MWI system.