Sparse through-the-wall imaging

We consider electromagnetic imaging of targets hidden behind dielectric walls using sparse regularization. We assume that the targets can be suitably represented by a set of unknown filament currents as in the equivalent-source method. We combine the surface-equivalence theorem and the ray tracing to obtain a linear measurement model. We investigate the efficiency of the proposed method in reconstructing both dielectric and metallic targets.

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