Graph-CNNs for RF Imaging: Learning the Electric Field Integral Equations

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Main Authors: Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos, Gavriilidis, Panagiotis, Gradoni, Gabriele, Alexandropoulos, George C.
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Published: 2025
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author Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos
Gavriilidis, Panagiotis
Gradoni, Gabriele
Alexandropoulos, George C.
author_facet Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos
Gavriilidis, Panagiotis
Gradoni, Gabriele
Alexandropoulos, George C.
contents Radio-Frequency (RF) imaging concerns the digital recreation of the surfaces of scene objects based on the scattered field at distributed receivers. To solve this difficult inverse scattering problems, data-driven methods are often employed that extract patterns from similar training examples, while offering minimal latency. In this paper, we first provide an approximate yet fast electromagnetic model, which is based on the electric field integral equations, for data generation, and subsequently propose a Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture to learn the corresponding inverse model. A graph-attention backbone allows for the system geometry to be passed to the DNN, where residual convolutional layers extract features about the objects, while a UNet head performs the final image reconstruction. Our quantitative and qualitative evaluations on two synthetic data sets of different characteristics showcase the performance gains of thee proposed advanced architecture and its relative resilience to signal noise levels and various reception configurations.
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spellingShingle Graph-CNNs for RF Imaging: Learning the Electric Field Integral Equations
Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos
Gavriilidis, Panagiotis
Gradoni, Gabriele
Alexandropoulos, George C.
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Radio-Frequency (RF) imaging concerns the digital recreation of the surfaces of scene objects based on the scattered field at distributed receivers. To solve this difficult inverse scattering problems, data-driven methods are often employed that extract patterns from similar training examples, while offering minimal latency. In this paper, we first provide an approximate yet fast electromagnetic model, which is based on the electric field integral equations, for data generation, and subsequently propose a Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture to learn the corresponding inverse model. A graph-attention backbone allows for the system geometry to be passed to the DNN, where residual convolutional layers extract features about the objects, while a UNet head performs the final image reconstruction. Our quantitative and qualitative evaluations on two synthetic data sets of different characteristics showcase the performance gains of thee proposed advanced architecture and its relative resilience to signal noise levels and various reception configurations.
title Graph-CNNs for RF Imaging: Learning the Electric Field Integral Equations
topic Machine Learning
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14439