Pixel-based images captured by a charge-coupled device (CCD) with infrared (IR) LEDs around the image sensor are the well-known CCD Red–Green–Blue IR (the so-called CCD RGB-IR) data. The CCD RGB-IR data are generally acquired for video su...
In recent years, solar energy has been regarded as one of the most important sustainable energy sources. Under the rapid and large-scale construction of solar farms, the maintenance and inspection of the health conditions of solar modules in a large...
In this paper, we study IR spectroscopy system design by optimizing the radiation energy in the plane of the surface temperature and wavelength. We provide infrared system designing criteria towards the formation of the optimized image of an arbitrar...
To overcome the limitations of brown adipose tissue (BAT) imaging with MRI and PET/CT, near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging has been utilized in living animals because it is highly sensitive, noninvasive, nonradioactive, and cost-effective. To da...
Background: Nanoparticles conjugated with fluorescent probes have versatile applications, serving not only for targeted fluorescent imaging but also for evaluating the in vivo profiles of designed nanoparticles. However, the relationship between fluo...
The state of the art in IR thermal imaging methods for applications in medical diagnostics is discussed. A review of advances in IR thermal imaging technology in the years 1960–2024 is presented. Recently used artificial intelligence (AI) metho...
For the significant distortion problem caused by the special projection method of equi-rectangular projection (ERP) images, this paper proposes an omnidirectional image super-resolution algorithm model based on position information transformation, ta...
A tumor-targeted near-infrared (NIR) fluorophore CA800Cl was developed based on commercially available IR-786 by modulating its physicochemical properties. IR-786, a hydrophobic cationic heptamethine cyanine fluorophore, was previously recognized as...
Digital tools as 3D (three-dimensional) modelling and imaging techniques are having an increasing role in many applicative fields, thanks to some significative features, such as their powerful communicative capacity, versatility of the results and no...
Current tumor diagnostics rely on fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET imaging, but FDG’s short half-life and high cost limit its widespread use. Infrared (IR) probes are emerging as non-radioactive alternatives to conventional tracers for tissue secti...
RGB-infrared (RGB-IR) object detection leverages complementary information from these two modalities to substantially enhance perception in complex environments, which is particularly beneficial for reliable detection under adverse imaging conditions...
This study describes comprehensive measurements performed for four consecutive nights during a regional-scale radiation fog event in Israel’s central and southern areas in January 2021. Our data included both in situ measurements of droplets size dis...
Due to the complexity of real optical flow capture, the existing research still has not performed real optical flow capture of infrared (IR) images with the production of an optical flow based on IR images, which makes the research and application of...
Transparent polymer delivery devices often contain a solid lubricant coating on a stronger bulk polymer. The distribution of lubricant coating must be monitored for device optimisation appraisals and to ensure consistency during mass production. Howe...
Deep learning-based image super-resolution has shown significantly good performance in improving image quality. In this paper, the RGB-IR cross input and sub-pixel upsampling network is proposed to increase the spatial resolution of an Infrared (IR)...
Thermography is being increasingly used in building inspection due to its capability to determine various defects, as this enables the development of improvement strategies for efficient energy consumption. In this paper, AI algorithms are combined,...
Synthesis of biocompatible near infrared phosphorescent complexes and their application in bioimaging as triplet oxygen sensors in live systems are still challenging areas of organometallic chemistry. We have designed and synthetized four novel iridi...
Biodegradable poly-[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyhexanoates] (PHBHx) have been widely studied for their applications in potentially replacing petroleum-based thermoplastics. In this study, the effect of the high molecular weight (Mn = 3400)...
Electrophoretic Displays (EPDs) are widely adopted in e-readers and portable devices due to their ultra-low power consumption and eye-friendly reflective characteristics. However, inherent hardware limitations, such as low resolution, slow response s...
Weak-signal fluorescence channels (e.g., 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI)) often fail to provide reliable structural details due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and insufficient high-frequency information, limiting the ability of single-...
The potential of Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, multispectral imaging (MSI), and electronic nose (E-nose) was explored in order to determine the microbiological quality of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fillets. Fish fillets wer...
Infrared imaging technology, used both to study deep-space bodies’ radiation and environmental changes on Earth, experienced constant improvements in the last few years, pushing data converter designers to face new challenges in terms of speed, power...
The implementation of fast and nondestructive methods in meat products and colds cuts have become increasingly important to evaluate their quality in relation to different factors such as origin, type of processing, freshness, adulteration, and authe...
Background/Objectives: Back table fluorescence imaging performed on freshly excised tissue specimens represents a critical step in fluorescence-guided surgery, enabling rapid assessment of tumor margins before final pathology. While most preclinical...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an idiopathic, fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive loss of motor function with an average survival time of 2–5 years after diagnosis. Due to the lack of signature biomarkers and he...
Gender recognition of pedestrians in uncontrolled outdoor environments, such as intelligent surveillance scenarios, involves various problems in terms of performance degradation. Most previous studies on gender recognition examined recognition method...
Electro-optic (EO) image sensors exhibit the properties of high resolution and low noise level at daytime, but they do not work in dark environments. Infrared (IR) image sensors exhibit poor resolution and cannot separate objects with similar tempera...
An infrared (IR) sub-imaging system is composed of an optical scanning device and a single IR detector, which provides the target location information to the servo system. Currently, further improvement of positioning accuracy and imaging quality in...
It is important to maintain the safety of road driving by automatically performing a series of processes to automatically measure and repair damage to the road pavement. However, road pavements include not only damages such as longitudinal cracks, tr...
Identifying parathyroid glands during surgery is challenging and time-consuming due to their small size (3–5 mm) and camouflaged appearance in the background of the thyroid, lymph nodes, fat, and other neck structures. For the gland itself, it...
Infrared (IR) Image preprocessing is aimed at image denoising and enhancement to help with small target detection. According to the sparse representation theory, the IR original image is low rank, and the coefficient shows a sparse character. The low...
Reliable acupoint localization is essential for developing artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) tools in traditional Korean medicine; however, conventional annotation of 2D images often suffers from inter- and intra-annotator variab...
Multitemporal cross-sensor imagery is fundamental for the monitoring of the Earth’s surface over time. However, these data often lack visual consistency because of variations in the atmospheric and surface conditions, making it challenging to c...
We explore the potential of computing coastal ocean surface currents from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite imagery using the maximum cross-correlation (MCC) method....
IR-783, a commercially available near-infrared (NIR) heptamethine cyanine dye, has been used for selective tumor imaging in breast, prostate, cervical, and brain cancers in vitro and in vivo. Although the molecular mechanism behind the structure-inhe...
Alcohol intoxication is a significant phenomenon, affecting many social areas, including work procedures or car driving. Alcohol causes certain side effects including changing the facial thermal distribution, which may enable the contactless identifi...
Photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy that employ organic dye in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II) became an attractive theranostical strategy for eliminating solid tumors, in which IR1048 was previously reported to be a good candidat...
Digital time-delay integration (TDI) enhances the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in infrared (IR) imaging, but its effectiveness in push-broom scanning is contingent upon maintaining a stable image shift velocity. Unpredictable image shifts and rotation...
The freezing phenomenon has a dramatic impact on the quality of freeze-dried products. Several freezing models applied to solutions in vials have been proposed to predict the resulting product morphology and describe heat transfer mechanisms. However...
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy has been used for decades to study collagen in mammalian tissues. While many changes in the spectral profiles appear under polarized IR light, the absorption bands are naturally broad because of tissue heterogeneity. A bett...
Targeted medicine uses the distinctive features of cancer cells to find and destroy tumors. We present human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted PLGA–chitosan nanoparticles for cancer therapy and visualization. Loading with two n...
Recently, increased attention has been devoted to intermittent and ephemeral streams (IRES) due to the recognition of their importance for ecology, hydrology, and biogeochemistry. However, IRES dynamics still demand further research, and traditional...
Multi-modal systems extract information about the environment using specialized sensors that are optimized based on the wavelength of the phenomenology and material interactions. To maximize the entropy, complementary systems operating in regions of...
Real-time small infrared (IR) target detection is critical to the performance of the situational awareness system in high-altitude aircraft. However, current IR target detection systems are generally hardware-unfriendly and have difficulty in achievi...
Infrared cameras allow non-invasive and 24 h continuous monitoring. Thus, they are widely used in automatic pig monitoring, which is essential to maintain the profitability and sustainability of intensive pig farms. However, in practice, impurities s...
Heptamethine cyanine dyes are widely used for in vivo near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging and NIR laser-induced cancer phototherapy due to their good optical properties. Since most of heptamethine cyanine dyes available commercially are highly h...
With the urgent demand for automatic management of large numbers of high-resolution remote sensing images, content-based high-resolution remote sensing image retrieval (CB-HRRS-IR) has attracted much research interest. Accordingly, this paper propose...
The presence of mesopores in the interior of microporous particles may significantly improve their transport properties. Complementing previous macroscopic transient sorption experiments and pulsed field gradient NMR self-diffusion studies with such...
A synergistic set of NDT techniques, including I–V analysis, UVF imaging, IR thermography, and EL imaging, supports a diagnostics methodology developed in this work to qualitatively and quantitatively identify a wide range of PV defects. The me...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and multispectral imaging (MSI) were evaluated for the prediction of the microbiological quality of poultry meat via regression and classification models. Chicken thigh fillets (n = 402) were subjected...
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