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[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!

[PDP8E]

This is brief report on a work in progress: focusing of the MI images
The adaptive contrast was just an attempt to see in low light levels ... with varying success...depending on the quality of the input images.

I cobbled together a focus program that takes some aspects of wavelets and the related least square methods.
As a worst case input (but easiest for me) I used the processed mosaic (thanks Astro-naught) of JPL's 1st attempt to see beneath Spirit.

After I finished the coding and debug, it ran 2 hours of CPU time (!) and deconvolved into utter ugliness. I ran it again and stopped it at iteration 211 (52 mins) and here is the result.



<little rock in the SW corner is better (and closer to the camera)...what is going on with the LM wheel?...>
<a distant 'rock' seen through the (out of focus and) upside down 'U' of the hull, in the NW corner may be seen by the NAV/PAnN cameras for a check?>
<can somebody get on their belly and take a series of pictures at the TEE BEE of the underside of the test rover? ...and post them?>

The overall goal is to iteratively compute a new hi-res image and check it by producing a newer low res version, while comparing it to the actual low res (and then adjusting for the next iteration) -- I cheated and used 2 arrays -one each for a 1D representation of X and Y - rather than a more (days! worth of) complex matrix computations. (confession: averaging was used at the the intersections of pixels in the output array ~! )

Since this wost case image (super processed by me and then skillfully mosaiced by Astro0) 'looks' like it can be improved (?some what?.. you tell me...?) then, the next step: is to try this method on the original JPL original images, then contrast enhance, then mosaic.

As a note, I can only detect one seam from the mosaic in the deconvolution...I thought I'd see them all.

See you in a few days...?

Cheers

Ustrax: beautiful Tennyson poem...the Crew, Marines, and all of us caught up in this adventure hear you loud and clear...