Declutter-GAN: GPR B-Scan Data Clutter Removal Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets

Abstract

Clutter removal in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) B-scan data has been widely studied in recent years. In this letter, we propose a novel data-driven clutter suppression method in GPR data based on conditional generative adversarial nets (cGANs). The proposed method learns a function that maps the cluttered data to the clutter-free data from the training set. The training set consists of pairs of cluttered data and corresponding clutter-free data. Different from the traditional method that only uses the simulation training set, we simulate the clutter-free data and add the real collected non-target data to the simulated clutter-free data as cluttered data, so that the trained network can generalize well to the real GPR data. The proposed method is compared with the subspace method, sparse representation-based method, and low-rank and sparse matrix decomposition (LRSD) methods on both simulation data and real collected data. The results show that the proposed method has higher performance in terms of computational complexity, clutter suppression results, and applicability than those state-of-the-art methods.