Portable Passive Millimeter-Wave Sensor for Detecting Concealed Weapons and Explosives Hidden on a Human Body

Author

Kapilevich, Boris ; Litvak, Boris ; Shulzinger, A. ; Einat, Moshe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Ariel Univ., Ariel, Israel

Volume

13

Issue

11

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov. 2013

Firstpage

4224

Lastpage

4228

Abstract

This paper describes a portable passive millimeter-wave sensor designed for remote detection of both metallic and non-metallic objects hidden on a human body under cloth. The sensor is based on a directly detection and analyses of the energy emitted by a human body. The algorithm of detection estimates unimodality features of traces recorded in the process of a manual scan. The sensor demonstrates a detection probability in the laboratory environment close to 100% at a distance of up to 3 m for the tested samples of explosives and metal objects hidden under cloth.

Keywords

explosive detection; feature extraction; millimetre wave detectors; object detection; probability; weapons; cloth; concealed weapon detection; detection probability; energy analysis; explosive detection; human body; nonmetallic object detection; portable passive millimeter-wave sensor; remote metallic detection; unimodality trace feature detection; Concealed weapon detection; homeland security; millimeter wave; sensors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2013.2263279

Filename

6516526