Robust Denoise This!

Forget Lena

Julien just mentioned to me some extraordinary shots taken yesterday at the Fukushima plant that could be useful for some of you over the week-end (if you are interested): Namely, clean up video footages from reactor 5 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant taken yesterday.

In the following handout by TEPCO entitled: Trial examination at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 5 for inner inspection of PCV of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Unit 2, one gets an idea of the examination work that is currently undertaken at Fukushima in order to investigate the primary containment vessel of  reactor 5. Less than a year later, we are getting videos to watch, wow, this is simply amazing in terms of transparency. Of interest to the image processing and denoising folks, is the amount of noise from all kinds on these photos and videos. Specifically, radiation hits the FPA of the camera pretty hard. I wonder how any of the current Robust PCA (or similar work) that Nuit Blanche often features behave in such an uncontrolled benchmark. 

I am tempted to see how some denoising and other inpainting could make these videos nicer

of interest eventually, is the ability to have future vision test inside the reactor enabled by these denoising  techniques.

Most information (including the original videos come from this page but they won't be up for too long, get them while you can):

"...Investigation inside of Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2, Fukushima Daiichi NPS

• The digest version

• (Video on January 19, 2012)

• Videos

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• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (Video1)(256MB)

• (Video on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (Video2)(117MB)

• (Video on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (Video3)(92.1MB)

• (Video on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (Video4)(644MB)

• (Video on January 19, 2012)

• [Reference] Endoscope used for the insight survey of Primary Containment Vessel of Unit2 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on January 19, 2012(PDF 38.7KB)

• Endoscope(1)

• (pictured on January 18, 2012)

• Endoscope(2)

• (pictured on January 18, 2012).

• [Reference] Investigation inside of Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2, Fukushima Daiichi NPS (124KB)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (1)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (2)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (3)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (4)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (5)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (6)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

• Inside of the Primary Containment Vessel, Unit 2 (7)

• (pictured on January 19, 2012)

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Thanks Julien!

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