Figure 5. Example of synthetic dataset used for evaluation of the spark detection algorithm.
Image with randomly distributed sparks with amplitudes of 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25 × F0 (A) was disturbed by Poisson noise to obtain SNR of the background equal to 2 (B), and analyzed by sparks detection algorithm using smoothed image (C). Notice how all the sparks were detected, as indicated by the white boxes on (C).