Generative-Adversarial-Networks-based Ghost Recognition

Nowadays, target recognition technique plays an important role in many fields. However, the existing image information based methods suffer from the influence of target image quality. In addition, some methods also need image reconstruction, which will bring additional time cost. In this paper, we propose a novel coincidence recognition method combining ghost imaging (GI) and generative adversarial networks (GAN). Based on the mechanism of GI, a set of random speckles sequence is employed to illuminate target, and a bucket detector without resolution is utilized to receive echo signal. The bucket signal sequence formed after continuous detections is constructed into a bucket signal array, which is regarded as the sample of GAN. Then, conditional GAN is used to map bucket signal array and target category. In practical application, the speckles sequence in training step is still employed to illuminate target, and the bucket signal array is input GAN for recognition. The proposed method can improve the problems caused by existing recognition methods that based on image information, and provide a certain turbulence-free ability. Extensive experiments are show that the proposed method achieves promising performance.