Abstract:The EM waves unintentionally emitted by computer displays contain valuable information, but are highly susceptible to noise during propagation, degrading the recovery of leaked data. To suppress this noise, a preprocessing method combining an improved Pelican Optimization Algorithm (POA)-VMD with wavelet threshold denoising is proposed. The improved POA optimizes the parameters for VMD. The decomposed modes are then screened via cosine similarity, and effective components are further denoised using an enhanced wavelet threshold algorithm. Simulations show the proposed method outperforms both POA-VMD reconstruction and POA-VMD-wavelet methods in signal-to-noise ratio, root mean square error, and correlation coefficient. Practical tests on multiple leakage signal datasets yield an average noise suppression ratio of 18.4924 dB, representing improvements of 2.9567 dB and 1.2685 dB over the contrasting methods. Image reconstruction experiments confirm the method"s effectiveness in restoring electromagnetic leakage information.