Improved Clutter Removal by Robust Principal Component Analysis for Chaos Through-Wall Imaging Radar

Chaos through-wall imaging radar has attracted wide attention due to its inherent low probability of detection/interception, strong anti-jamming, and high resolution. However, the target response is usually overwhelmed by strong clutter. This paper proposes an imaging-then-decomposition method based on two-stage robust principal component analysis (RPCA) to remove the clutter and recover the target image. The proposed method firstly focuses the energy of the preprocessing data by the back-projection imaging algorithm; then, it performs matrix decomposition on the full and the sparse component of the focused data, in succession, by the RPCA algorithm. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method can suppress the clutter dramatically and indicate human targets distinctly. Compared with the traditional methods, it has effectiveness and superiority in improving the signal-to-clutter ratio.