High-Resolution Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging with Exploitation of Target Structure

Abstract

It is quite challenging for through-the-wall radar imaging (TWRI) to achieve high-resolution ghost-free imaging with limited measurements in an indoor multipath scenario. In this paper, a novel high-resolution TWRI algorithm with the exploitation of the target clustered structure in a hierarchical Bayesian framework is proposed. More specifically, an extended spike-and-slab clustered prior is imposed to statistically encourage the cluster formations in both downrange and crossrange domains of the target region, and a generative model of the proposed approach is provided. Then, a Markov Chain Monte Carol (MCMC) sampler is used to implement the posterior inference. Compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms, the proposed nonparametric Bayesian algorithm can preserve underlying target clustered properties and effectively suppress these isolated spurious scatterers without any prior information on targets themselves, such as sizes, shapes, and numbers.