Research on image data filtering methods for extreme environments after the nuclear leak accident

• Published in: Nuclear engineering and technology 2024, 56(10), , pp.4227-4236
• Main Authors: Zhu, Minglei, Wu, Xiangkun, Qi, Jun, Teng, Yunlong, Jiang, Jinmao, Gong, Dawei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Image denoising; Improved median filtering; Multi-frame averaging filtering; Nuclear energy; Radiation image; 원자력공학
• ISSN: 1738-5733; 2234-358X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2024.05.028

Nuclear energy is used more and more widely as a clean energy source, but nuclear energy facilities are risky, and when a nuclear leak occurs, it is necessary to detect equipment in a nuclear radiation environment. In the nuclear radiation environment, due to the impact of high-energy particles on the camera sensor, the collected image contains a lot of radiation noise, which greatly reduces the visual perception of the image. Aiming at the problem that radiation noise reduces image quality, a radiation image compound filtering algorithm combining median filtering and multi-frame average filtering is proposed based on radiation noise characteristics. Compared with several common filtering algorithms, the radiation noise image is filtered under the same radiation dose and achieve the highest Peak Signal Noise Rate (PSNR) and Structural Similarity (SSIM), and compared with the multi-frame average filtering method, the number of image frames required by the algorithm in this paper is greatly reduced. Experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively eliminate radiation noise and is more suitable for image filtering in radiation environment.