title: Multispectral illumination and image processing techniques for active millimeter-wave concealed object detection.
abstract: Active millimeter-wave imaging systems for concealed object detection offer the possibility of much higher image contrast than passive systems, especially in indoor applications. By studying active millimeter-wave images of different test objects derived in the W band, we show that multispectral illumination is critical to the detectability of targets. We also propose to use image change detection techniques, including image differencing, normalized difference vegetation index, and principle component analysis to process the multispectral millimeter-wave images. The results demonstrate that multispectral illumination can significantly reveal the object features hidden by image artifacts and improve the appearance of the objects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2 Brussels, B-1050, Belgium. lzhang@etro.vub.ac.be
authors.forename: Lixiao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stiens
authors.forename: Amna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elhawil
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vounckx