Object Recognition for Millimeter Wave MIMO-SAR Images Based on High-Resolution Feature Recursive Alignment Fusion Network

Abstract

There are several complex situations in recognizing concealed objects from millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output synthetic aperture radar (MIMO-SAR) security images, such as incomplete imaging of objects, partially occluded objects, and overlapping objects, which are detrimental to the accurate recognition of concealed objects. To solve these problems, a concealed object detection method based on a high-resolution feature recursive alignment fusion network (HR-FRAFnet) is proposed. The HR-FRAFnet can segment the object area from the grayscale image with complex human background and complete the recognition. The overall architecture of the HR-FRAFnet follows the encoder-decoder framework. Specifically, in the encoder stage, a deep parallel feature extraction network (DPFEN) connects the multi-resolution feature maps in parallel and repeats multi-scale feature fusion. This approach suppresses the background noise flowing and retains more recognizable target characteristics. Then, in the decoder stage, a feature recursive alignment fusion module (FRAFM) is designed to enhance the perception of object edges. The FRAFM effectively improves the segmentation accuracy of objects whereas decreasing the computational complexity of the network. Besides, we employ a combined loss function to alleviate the foreground-background imbalance problem in MIMO-SAR images. Homemade human security screening image datasets are used for evaluation. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing semantic segmentation methods in Mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) and reduces the incidence of missed and error detection of targets.