Learning-Based Shadow Mitigation for Terahertz Multi-Layer Imaging

This paper proposes a learning-based approach to mitigate the shadow effect in the pixel domain for Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) multi-layer imaging. Compared with model-based approaches, this learning-based approach requires no prior knowledge of material properties of the sample. Preliminary simulations confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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