Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 17, Issue 3, 187(2021)

Edge extraction and reconstruction of terahertz image using simulation evolutionary with the symmetric fourth order partial differential equation

Xue-wen PAN1, Quan-you ZHAO1, and Jian-jun LIU2、*
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  • 1School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, Yongzhou 425199, China
  • 2School of Intelligent Engineering, Shaoguan University, Shaoguan 363000, China
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    Terahertz (THz) pulse imaging can be used for biomedicine, material, and food security. However, image quality is lower attributed to the THz time-domain spectroscopy system. Such as, noises and lower space resolution are presented in some THz images. To improve the THz image quality, we proposed a novel method which combining the simulation evolutionary with the symmetric fourth order partial differential equation. The image edge is first detected by using the simulation evolutionary. Then the symmetric fourth order partial differential equation (PDE) is applied on the non-edge image for noise reduction. Finally, the de-noise image is combined with the edge image obtained from the edge detection step. Experiments on four different THz images prove that the proposed method can preserve the edge information during noise reduction.

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    PAN Xue-wen, ZHAO Quan-you, LIU Jian-jun. Edge extraction and reconstruction of terahertz image using simulation evolutionary with the symmetric fourth order partial differential equation[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2021, 17(3): 187

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    Paper Information

    Received: May. 12, 2020

    Accepted: Aug. 12, 2020

    Published Online: Sep. 2, 2021

    The Author Email: Jian-jun LIU (37644313@qq.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-021-0080-z

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