Phaseless terahertz coded-aperture imaging based on deep generative neural network

Abstract

As a promising terahertz radar imaging technology, phaseless terahertz coded-aperture imaging (PL-TCAI) has many advantages such as simple system structure, forward-looking imaging and staring imaging and so forth. However, it is very difficult to recover a target only from its intensity measurements. Although some methods have been proposed to deal with this problem, they require a large number of intensity measurements for both sparse and extended target reconstruction. In this work, we propose a method for PL-TCAI by modeling target scattering coefficient as being in the range of a generative model. Theoretically, we analyze and model the system structure, derive the matrix imaging equation, and then study the deep phase retrieval algorithm. Numerical tests based on different generative models show that the targets with the different spareness can achieve high resolution reconstruction when the number of intensity measurements are smaller than the number of target grids. Also, we find that the proposed method has good anti-noise and stability.