Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization
Abstract The wideband microwave imaging system is a passive focal-plane imaging system which is used for large-scale, wideband electromagnetic interference source (EMS) imaging. The system is mainly composed of a parabolic reflecting surface and a multi-channel ultra-wideband signal acquisition syst...
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| description | Abstract The wideband microwave imaging system is a passive focal-plane imaging system which is used for large-scale, wideband electromagnetic interference source (EMS) imaging. The system is mainly composed of a parabolic reflecting surface and a multi-channel ultra-wideband signal acquisition system. However, due to the influence of manufacturing processes and the varied response characteristics of the sensors to different frequency radiation, the stripe noise exists in the obtained electromagnetic (EM) images, which severely affects the accuracy of localization. To solve this problem, an innovative wavelet deep unfolding network from the perspective of the transform domain is presented in this paper. The network fully considers the inherent characteristics of stripe noise and the complementary information between the coefficients of different wavelet sub-bands to accurately estimate stripe noise while minimizing computational cost. An iterative deep unfolding structure is employed to remove stripe noise by exploiting the correlation between adjacent row signals. It iteratively refines the noise estimation, using the output of each network iteration as input for the subsequent one. A bidirectional gated recurrent unit with a spatial attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the long-time correlation, thus separating the scene details from the stripe noise more thoroughly and restoring the details accurately. Furthermore, a novel stripe noise mathematical model and a wideband dataset are developed. These innovations enable the proposed algorithm to effectively handle dynamically varying noise in wideband. The extensive experiments on simulated and real data demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms several classical de-striping methods on both quantitative and qualitative assessments. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2071892ff0b94f57bb3b6816fbf6f9312025-08-20T01:57:47ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-03-0115111910.1038/s41598-025-92229-9Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localizationYanju Zhu0Zihan Zhao1School of Information Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang Tiedao UniversitySchool of Information Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang Tiedao UniversityAbstract The wideband microwave imaging system is a passive focal-plane imaging system which is used for large-scale, wideband electromagnetic interference source (EMS) imaging. The system is mainly composed of a parabolic reflecting surface and a multi-channel ultra-wideband signal acquisition system. However, due to the influence of manufacturing processes and the varied response characteristics of the sensors to different frequency radiation, the stripe noise exists in the obtained electromagnetic (EM) images, which severely affects the accuracy of localization. To solve this problem, an innovative wavelet deep unfolding network from the perspective of the transform domain is presented in this paper. The network fully considers the inherent characteristics of stripe noise and the complementary information between the coefficients of different wavelet sub-bands to accurately estimate stripe noise while minimizing computational cost. An iterative deep unfolding structure is employed to remove stripe noise by exploiting the correlation between adjacent row signals. It iteratively refines the noise estimation, using the output of each network iteration as input for the subsequent one. A bidirectional gated recurrent unit with a spatial attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the long-time correlation, thus separating the scene details from the stripe noise more thoroughly and restoring the details accurately. Furthermore, a novel stripe noise mathematical model and a wideband dataset are developed. These innovations enable the proposed algorithm to effectively handle dynamically varying noise in wideband. The extensive experiments on simulated and real data demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms several classical de-striping methods on both quantitative and qualitative assessments.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92229-9Wideband microwave imaging systemWavelet deep unfolding networkStripe noiseDe-striping algorithm |
| spellingShingle | Yanju Zhu Zihan Zhao Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization Scientific Reports Wideband microwave imaging system Wavelet deep unfolding network Stripe noise De-striping algorithm |
| title | Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization |
| title_full | Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization |
| title_fullStr | Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization |
| title_short | Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization |
| title_sort | wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for ems localization |
| topic | Wideband microwave imaging system Wavelet deep unfolding network Stripe noise De-striping algorithm |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92229-9 |
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