Feasibility of detecting and localizing radioactive source using image processing and computational geometry algorithms

We consider the problem of nding the localization of radioactive source by using data from a digital camera. In other words, the camera could help us to detect the direction of radioactive rays radiation. Therefore, the outcome could be used to command a robot to move to- ward the true direction to achieve the source. The pro- cess of camera data is performed by using image pro- cessing and computational geometry algorithms. an‎d the robot is looking for the source in a space with ge- ometrical obstacles. Lots of radioactive accidents daily occur all over the world. During the radiography, the radioactive source is sometimes thrown out from its pro- tection layer and the radiographer has to look for it in the space around. This would have lots of irreparable costs. Thus, it seems necessary to make a robot which could search the radioactive source intelligently.