Linear-Model-inspired Neural Network for Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering

Abstract: Electromagnetic inverse scattering problems (ISPs) aim to retrieve permittivities of dielectric scatterers from the scattering measurement. It is often highly nonlinear, caus-ing the problem to be very difficult to solve. To alleviate the issue, this letter exploits a linear model-based network (LMN) learning strategy, which benefits from both model complexity and data learning. By introducing a linear model for ISPs, a new model with network-driven regular-izer is proposed. For attaining efficient end-to-end learning, the network architecture and hyper-parameter estimation are presented. Experimental results validate its superiority to some state-of-the-arts.