Title
CNN-Based Deblurring of THz Time-Domain Images
Abstract
In recent years, terahertz (THz) time-domain imaging attracted significant attention and become a useful tool in many applications. A THz time-domain imaging system measures amplitude changes of the THz radiation across a range of frequencies so the absorption coefficient of the materials in the sample can be obtained. THz time-domain images represent 3D hyperspectral cubes with several hundred bands corresponding to different wavelengths i.e., frequencies. Moreover, a THz beam has a non-zero beam waist and therefore introduces band-dependent blurring effects in the resulting images accompanied by system-dependent noise. Removal of blurring effects and noise from the whole 3D hyperspectral cube is addressed in the current work. We will start by introducing THz beam shape effects and its formulation as a deblurring problem, followed by presenting a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approach which is able to tackle all bands jointly. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a CNN is used to remove the THz beam shape effects from all bands jointly of THz time-domain images. Experiments on synthetic images show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms conventional model-based deblurring methods and band-by-band approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/978-3-030-94893-1_22
COMPUTER VISION, IMAGING AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, VISIGRAPP 2020
Keywords
DocType
Volume
THz imaging, THz-TDS, CNN, Deblurring
Conference
1474
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-0929
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marina Ljubenovic100.34
S. Bazrafkan2585.44
Pavel Paramonov300.34
Jan De Beenhouwer404.39
Jan Sijbers500.68