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Ground penetrating radar clutter suppression algorithm for airport runways
Haifeng LI, Wenqiang LIU, Nansha LI, Zhongcheng GUI
Journal of Computer Applications    2026, 46 (2): 659-665.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2025020243
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To address the problem of complex background clutter and interference of strong inter-layer reflection in airport runway Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data, an improved U-Net-based deep learning algorithm for clutter suppression was proposed. In the algorithm, a detail enhancement module DE-Conv was introduced at the skip connections of U-Net to improve the network ability to capture details of target signals in multi-scale shallow features, and a feature-pixel dual-level fusion loss function was adopted using clutter-contaminated and clutter-free image pairs to optimize the training process. Specifically, high-dimensional features from both clutter-contaminated and clutter-free data were extracted by a shared-weight encoder, feature-level losses were computed to guide the training of the encoder, and pixel-level losses were computed using the images output by the decoder and the corresponding clutter-free simulated images to optimize the decoder’s performance. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves a Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of 37.114 7 dB and a Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) of 0.999 8 on a synthetic dataset, and an average Signal-to-Clutter Ratio (SCR) of 8.28 dB and Improvement Factor (IF) of 5.90 dB on a real airport runway dataset, outperforming the baseline model by 0.952 8 dB, 0.000 4, 6.58 dB, and 5.32 dB in these four metrics, respectively. Compared with Robust Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (RNMF), Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA), and the deep learning-based Clutter-removal Neural Network (CR-Net), the proposed algorithm has superior clutter suppression performance and computational efficiency. At the same time, a lot of ablation experimental results validate the effectiveness of the detail enhancement module and feature-pixel dual-level loss function to clutter removal and target signal recovery.

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