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3D sparse imaging in biosonar scene analysis
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Bats can navigate through foliage thanks to their biosonar. To build an image of their environment they emit ultrasonic pulses and analyse the corresponding echo signals which consist of a complex superposition of a set of highly overlapping reflected pulses coming from the targets at their different positions. We propose to use a sparse representation of echoes in overcomplete dictionaries to perform 3D imaging using biosonar signals. We show that even if the echosignal is a superposition of highly overlapping echoes the algorithm can efficiently reconstruct the image only from a single measurement. Those results can be useful from a robot sensor perspective where the robot has to find a free path. It can also help to understand better how bats can efficiently navigate through dense foliage.
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English
Source (book)
SPARS'09 :Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (2009)
Publication
2009
Volume/pages
5 p.
UAntwerpen
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Last edited 17.06.2024
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