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High-Resolution Object Detection with SAR Imaging for Autonomous Driving

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The development of autonomous driving technology has been rapidly developing for the past decades. One key task in autonomous driving technology is the detection of objects around the vehicle. Radars are now more and more widely equipped by autonomous vehicles for object detection. In this paper, we present a novel approach of using on-board radars for high-resolution objection detection. Our approach is based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR). As the vehicle is moving, the position of the receiving antenna keeps changing, which allows the detection of objects at a higher accuracy. In this paper, the cross range resolution of the proposed detection system will be studied. The simulation and measurement data of the proposed multi-point observation scheme will be presented. It is shown that the method described in this paper can significantly improve the resolution of the object detection, and can be potentially useful in autonomous driving vehicles.

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ICCDA '21: Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis
February 2021
194 pages
ISBN:9781450389112
DOI:10.1145/3456529
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  1. Autonomous driving
  2. object detection
  3. remote sensing
  4. self-driving cars
  5. synthetic aperture radar

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