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Structured Sparse Signal Processing for Infrared and Terahertz Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 4355

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lu Gan

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College of Engineering, Design and Physical Science, Brunel University, London, UK
Interests: Signal processing; machine learning; terahertz imaging; wavelets; high dynamic signal sampling
Prof. Dr. Yaochun Shen

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GJ, UK
Interests: advanced 3D imaging technology; terahertz imaging and compressed sensing; optical coherence tomography (OCT)
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Dear Colleagues,

Infrared and terahertz (THz) systems hold tremendous potential for applications in robotics, medicine, non-destructive inspection, quality control, and homeland security, etc. These sensing systems often generate high-dimensional signals with large volume. The recent explosive growth of sparse signal processing and machine learning offer new opportunities and tools to design high performance sensing systems.

The goal of the Special Issue is to collect original and high-quality research articles as well as review papers focused on recent advances of structured sparse signal processing and deep learning for the infrared and terahertz system. It aims to highlight new research accomplishments and developments in system design, theory, algorithms, and applications. This Special Issue will include high-quality novel contributions in this emerging field, including, but not limited to:

  • Infrared spectroscopy and imaging systems;
  • Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging systems;
  • Non-destructive testing;
  • Sparse signal processing;
  • Structured sparsity learning;
  • Compressive sensing;
  • Computational imaging;
  • Terahertz and infrared spectroscopic imaging.

Dr. Lu Gan
Prof. Dr. Yaochun Shen
Guest Editors

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DRUNet: A Method for Infrared Point Target Detection
by Changan Wei, Qiqi Li, Ji Xu, Jingli Yang and Shouda Jiang
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(18), 9299; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12189299 - 16 Sep 2022
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Deep learning is widely used in vision tasks, but feature extraction of IR small targets is difficult due to the inconspicuous contours and lack of color information. This paper proposes a new convolutional neural network–based (CNN-based) method for IR small target detection called [...] Read more.
Deep learning is widely used in vision tasks, but feature extraction of IR small targets is difficult due to the inconspicuous contours and lack of color information. This paper proposes a new convolutional neural network–based (CNN-based) method for IR small target detection called DRUNet. The algorithm is divided into two parts: the feature extraction network and the prediction head. For the small IR targets, which are difficult to accurately label, Gaussian soft labels are added to supervise the training process and make the network converge faster. We use a simplified object keypoint similarity to evaluate the network accuracy by the ratio of the distance to the radius of the inner tangent circle of the target box and a fair method for evaluating the model inference speed after GPU preheating. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm performs better when compared with commonly used algorithms in the field of small target detection. The model size is 10.5 M, and the test speed reaches 133 FPS under the RTX3090 experimental platform. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structured Sparse Signal Processing for Infrared and Terahertz Systems)
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Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection Based on the Improved Tensor Nuclear Norm
by Xiangsuo Fan, Anqing Wu, Huajin Chen, Qingnan Huang and Zhiyong Xu
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(11), 5570; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115570 - 30 May 2022
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In the face of complex scenes with strong edge contours and high levels of noise, suppressing edge contours and noise levels is challenging with infrared dim and small target detection algorithms. Many advanced algorithms suffer from high false alarm rates when facing this [...] Read more.
In the face of complex scenes with strong edge contours and high levels of noise, suppressing edge contours and noise levels is challenging with infrared dim and small target detection algorithms. Many advanced algorithms suffer from high false alarm rates when facing this problem. To solve this, a new anisotropic background feature weight function based on the infrared patch tensor (IPT) model was developed in this study to characterize the background airspace difference features by effectively combining the local features with the global features to suppress the strong edge contours in the structural tensor. Secondly, to enhance the target energy in the a priori model, an improved high-order cumulative model was proposed to establish the local significance region of the target as a way to achieve energy enhancement of the significant target in the structural tensor. Finally, the energy-enhanced structural tensor was introduced into the partial sum of the sensor nuclear norm (PSTNN) model as a local feature information weight matrix; the detection results were obtained by solving the model with the help of ADMM. A series of experiments show that the algorithm in this paper achieves better detection results compared with other algorithms. Full article
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