Workshop on Short Range mmW Imaging Systems

Millimetre-wave (mmW) imaging is extending its footprint rapidly to serve new applications. Solutions for security screening as well as industrial demands are evolving in the market space. A huge burden caused by the needed integration complexity is vanishing nowadays thanks to the cost reduction by various semiconductor miniaturisations, e.g., SiGe and CMOS, as well as the ever-increasing computation capacities of digital units, e.g., GPUs and FPGAs. Short-range imaging is specifically interesting for high-resolution demanding applications. Security screening for instance is among them, where a few millimetre of resolution is essential for threat detection. In addition, object illumination is optimal at short ranges. In achieving this, image formation is very challenging due to the antennas wide looking angles involved. Many advanced image formation algorithms adapted for short range imagery are also evolving from academia. Consequently, vast realisation possibilities for short-range mmW imaging systems are becoming available.

In this workshop, talks from industry as well as research institutes are presented to highlight the state-of-the-art in this domain, and to offer an attractive overview for newcomers into mmW imaging technologies.