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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Research on Colorization Algorithm for γ-Photon Flow Field Images Using the SECN Model.

Hui Xiao, Liying Hou, Jiantang Liu, Shengjun Huang

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Hui XiaoCollege of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing 211106, China.
Liying HouCollege of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing 211106, China.
Jiantang LiuCollege of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing 211106, China.
Shengjun HuangCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing 211106, China.

Funding

Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China G.No. U2441285National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program) G.No. 62571239Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation (General Program) G.No. JCYJ20250604190734042
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Abstract

γ-photon tomography, which leverages the high penetration and electrical neutrality of high-energy γ-photons, offers a promising non-contact approach for industrial flow field monitoring. However, γ-photon flow-field images are inherently grayscale and exhibit probabilistic statistical imaging characteristics, leading to color banding artifacts when processed by mainstream colorization algorithms like DeOldify, which compromise structural continuity and visual consistency. To address this issue, this paper proposes a Structure Enhancement Colorization Network (SECN) model for γ-photon flow-field image colorization. A U-Net + GAN framework is employed, with ResNet101 as the generator backbone. It integrates structure-aware enhancement and multi-scale attention modules, while the discriminator incorporates enhanced blocks for improved boundary and texture discrimination. By adaptively fusing global-local features across channel and spatial dimensions, the SECN model effectively suppresses color banding artifacts and enhances structural consistency. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, two CFD-simulated γ-photon flow-field image colorization scenarios-namely a large-scale vortex wake and a horizontal wake-are used as evaluation targets. In terms of image quality metrics, the proposed colorization algorithm achieves PSNR, SSIM, FID, and MAE values of 32.5831, 0.8612, 17.8514, and 0.0191, respectively, corresponding to improvements over DeOldify of 4.54%, 2.82%, 5.18%, and 11.16%. When considering information entropy, the proposed colorization algorithm achieves an average entropy value of 4.0257, marking a 4.44% increase compared to DeOldify's 3.8543, demonstrating superior information preservation and reduced uncertainty in reconstructing complex probabilistic structures. Furthermore, from the perspective of parameter inversion, the temperature inversion MAPE is 7.60%, which is a significant reduction of 18.42% compared to that of DeOldify.

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flow field monitoringimage colorizationphoton imagingSECN model

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PMCPMC13114761

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