A Fast and Robust Inverse Scattering Algorithm

Abstract

It is well known that the inverse scattering problem is usually computationally demanding, characterized by (1) slow convergence rate; (2) possibility of convergence to a local optimum instead of the global minimum; (3) instability in the presence of noise. The common way of solving an inverse scattering problem is to cast the problem into an optimization problem where the objective is to minimize the mismatch between the measured scattered field and the calculated scattered field. During the project, five important contributions have been documented: (1) Proposed improved version of the Subspace-based Optimization Method (SOM) to solve general inverse scattering problems. (2) Applied frequency hopping technique in one-sided transmitter/receiver inverse scattering problems. (3) Efficiently located small scatterers are embedded in inhomogeneous background, such as through-wall-imaging. (4) Reconstructed large scatterers embedded in inhomogeneous background. (5) Reconstructed scatterers using only the magnitude of wave information (i.e., the phase information is not available)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 27, 2011
Accession Number
ADA541558

Entities

People

  • Swee P. Yeo
  • Xudong Chen

Organizations

  • National University of Singapore

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Complexity
  • Convergence
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Information Operations
  • Instability
  • Integral Equations
  • Inverse Problems
  • Inverse Scattering
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Optimization
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transmitters

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.