Spirit's UnderBelly, processing the MI images Options

[PDP8E]

Here is a work in progress.
I was working on a another thread (processing the envelope challenge for PFK) and thought I could use the same technique to 'see' underneath Spirit's deck with the MI.
While I don't fix the focus, the technique does what amounts to a smart contrast...
If anyone would like to to do a mosaic, i would appreciate it (I haven't done them enough to pull them off like you guys)
I will post the whole underbelly later, but here are the test images:



Cheers and thanks!

[Floyd]

pdp8 Do you think think the focus deconvolution could be used after your smart contrast, or have you distorted the image too much to do a deconvolution? (not that I am the one to do such a trick)

[PDP8E]

Hi Floyd, (...nice weather you and I are having ... )
A focus deconvolution should still work...
However...The adaptive contrast enhancement was very successful in dark regions of the image.
I think it may have to do with the camera and the darker parts of the scene working together 'simulating a high f number' exposure in that area (which can fix out of focus shots). So the top and bottom of the new images are almost OK, but the sun drenched background of the middle part of the image is still way out of focus. A focus program may fix the middle 1/3 and mess up the top and bottom.
But, that's just theory! Who has a nice Richardson-Lucy deconvolver? Let's see!
I can post the rest of the image sequence tonight . (thanks for the feedback Paolo and for the mosaic Astro0)

Cheers