Monday, October 19, 2020

Abstract-Restoration of integrated circuit terahertz image based on wavelet denoising technique and the point spread function model

 


Zhirui Zhang, Yao Lua,  Cixing Lv, Qi Mao, Song long Wang, Shihan Yan, 


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143816620311878

In recent years, terahertz (THz) imaging technology has attracted much attention in the detection of the integrated circuit (IC). However, limited by the hardware of the imaging system, THz images often contain a significant amount of noise, which impairs the quality of the image details. The THz image is also degraded due to the long wavelength. In this study, we propose a novel method for THz image restoration. We first apply a wavelet denoising technique to process the THz time-frequency signal. The point spread function (PSF) is then mathematically modeled to restore the details of the IC image, as the degradation of the THz image can be regarded as the convolution process of the object equation and PSF. Finally, we compare the performance between the restored THz images before and after wavelet denoising. The results demonstrate that the restored image after denoising performs better in peak signal-to-noise ratio and visual improvements, proving the practicability and precision of our proposed method.

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