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  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,612 Views
16 Pages

Progress on Infrared Imaging Technology in Animal Production: A Review

  • Shuailong Zheng,
  • Changfan Zhou,
  • Xunping Jiang,
  • Jingshu Huang and
  • Dequan Xu

18 January 2022

Infrared thermography (IRT) imaging technology, as a convenient, efficient, and contactless temperature measurement technology, has been widely applied to animal production. In this review, we systematically summarized the principles and influencing...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
13,898 Views
42 Pages

Progress in Active Infrared Imaging for Defect Detection in the Renewable and Electronic Industries

  • Xinfeng Zhao,
  • Yangjing Zhao,
  • Shunchang Hu,
  • Hongyan Wang and ,
  • Yuyan Zhang and
  • Wuyi Ming
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 October 2023

In recent years, infrared thermographic (IRT) technology has experienced notable advancements and found widespread applications in various fields, such as renewable industry, electronic industry, construction, aviation, and healthcare. IRT technology...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Techniques  (Volume II))
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,130 Views
15 Pages

8 January 2021

Faults in electrical facilities may cause severe damages, such as the electrocution of maintenance personnel, which could be fatal, or a power outage. To detect electrical faults safely, electricians disconnect the power or use heavy equipment during...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Maintenance Using Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,070 Views
20 Pages

A Review of Fault Diagnosis Methods for Rotating Machinery Using Infrared Thermography

  • Rongcai Wang,
  • Xianbiao Zhan,
  • Huajun Bai,
  • Enzhi Dong and ,
  • Zhonghua Cheng and
  • Xisheng Jia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 September 2022

At present, rotating machinery is widely used in all walks of life and has become the key equipment in many production processes. It is of great significance to strengthen the condition monitoring of rotating machinery, timely diagnose and eliminate...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
98 Citations
8,163 Views
12 Pages

First Evaluation of Infrared Thermography as a Tool for the Monitoring of Udder Health Status in Farms of Dairy Cows

  • Mauro Zaninelli,
  • Veronica Redaelli,
  • Fabio Luzi,
  • Valerio Bronzo and ,
  • Malcolm Mitchell,
  • Vittorio Dell’Orto,
  • Valentino Bontempo,
  • Donata Cattaneo and
  • Giovanni Savoini
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

14 March 2018

The aim of the present study was to test infrared thermography (IRT), under field conditions, as a possible tool for the evaluation of cow udder health status. Thermographic images (n. 310) from different farms (n. 3) were collected and evaluated usi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Infrared Imaging: Sensing, Exploitation and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,556 Views
14 Pages

Quantitative Infrared Thermography to Evaluate the Humidification of Lightweight Concrete

  • Eva Barreira,
  • Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida,
  • Maria L. Simões and
  • Daniela Rebelo

17 March 2020

Moisture is one of the major causes of problems in buildings, and it can compromise their performance. Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non-destructive testing technology that can be used to assess the humidification phenomenon and, thus, prevent som...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infrared Thermography and Additional Non-Destructive Testing for Building, Structure and Material Inspections)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,047 Views
22 Pages

1 December 2022

Deep learning techniques underpinned by extensive data sources encompassing complex pavement features have proven effective in early pavement damage detection. With pavement features exhibiting temperature variation, inexpensive infra-red imaging tec...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,754 Views
15 Pages

Automated Collection and Analysis of Infrared Thermograms for Measuring Eye and Cheek Temperatures in Calves

  • Gemma Lowe,
  • Brendan McCane,
  • Mhairi Sutherland,
  • Joe Waas and ,
  • Allan Schaefer,
  • Neil Cox and
  • Mairi Stewart
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 February 2020

As the reliance upon automated systems in the livestock industry increases, technologies need to be developed which can be incorporated into these systems to monitor animal health and welfare. Infrared thermography (IRT) is one such technology that h...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal System and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,967 Views
38 Pages

IRT and GPR Techniques for Moisture Detection and Characterisation in Buildings

  • Iván Garrido,
  • Mercedes Solla,
  • Susana Lagüela and
  • Norberto Fernández

10 November 2020

The integrity, comfort, and energy demand of a building can be negatively affected by the presence of moisture in its walls. Therefore, it is essential to identify and characterise this building pathology with the most appropriate technologies to per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infrared Thermography and Additional Non-Destructive Testing for Building, Structure and Material Inspections)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,827 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2022

This study uses innovation resistance theory (IRT) to investigate why consumers are hesitant to purchase zero-waste products. Most of the existing IRT application studies have been conducted on innovation resistance to technology or devices. This stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Analysis of Brand Sustainability and Consumer Satisfaction)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,759 Views
12 Pages

A Decade from the Costa Concordia Shipwreck: Lesson Learned on the Contribution of Infrared Thermography during the Maritime Salvage Operations

  • William Frodella,
  • Guglielmo Rossi,
  • Luca Tanteri,
  • Ascanio Rosi and ,
  • Luca Lombardi,
  • Francesco Mugnai,
  • Riccardo Fanti and
  • Nicola Casagli
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2023

On 13 January 2012, the Italian vessel Costa Concordia wrecked on the shore of Giglio Island, about 15 km off the coast of southern Tuscany (Italy), causing the loss of 32 lives. It is considered one of the worst disasters in maritime history. Salvag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Marine Environmental Disaster Response)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,615 Views
11 Pages

Can Adipose Tissue Influence the Evaluation of Thermographic Images in Adolescents?

  • Hamilton H. T. Reis,
  • Ciro J. Brito,
  • Manuel Sillero-Quintana,
  • Alisson G. Silva and ,
  • Ismael Fernández-Cuevas,
  • Matheus S. Cerqueira,
  • Francisco Z. Werneck and
  • João C. B. Marins
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Infrared thermography (IRT) is a technology easy to use for clinical purposes as a pre-diagnostic tool for many health conditions. However, the analysis process of a thermographic image needs to be meticulous to make an appropriate decision. The adip...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Care Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,318 Views
44 Pages

Introduction of Deep Learning in Thermographic Monitoring of Cultural Heritage and Improvement by Automatic Thermogram Pre-Processing Algorithms

  • Iván Garrido,
  • Jorge Erazo-Aux,
  • Susana Lagüela,
  • Stefano Sfarra and ,
  • Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo,
  • Elena Pivarčiová,
  • Gianfranco Gargiulo,
  • Xavier Maldague and
  • Pedro Arias
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

22 January 2021

The monitoring of heritage objects is necessary due to their continuous deterioration over time. Therefore, the joint use of the most up-to-date inspection techniques with the most innovative data processing algorithms plays an important role to appl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Cultural Heritage Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,358 Views
13 Pages

31 July 2020

Internal body temperature is the gold standard for the fever of pigs, however non-contact infrared imaging technology (IRT) can only measure the skin temperature of regions of interest (ROI). Therefore, using IRT to detect the internal body temperatu...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
116 Citations
17,390 Views
21 Pages

31 July 2014

The improvements in crop production needed to meet the increasing food demand in the 21st Century will rely on improved crop management and better crop varieties. In the last decade our ability to use genetics and genomics in crop science has been re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Phenotyping Platforms for Field Trials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,800 Views
13 Pages

22 January 2023

Among the non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques, infrared thermography (IRT) is an attractive and highly reliable technology that can measure the thermal response of a wide area in real-time. In this study, thinning defects in S275 specimens were...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-destructive Inspection with Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,126 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2022

A research study aimed at the extending the means of estimating ISRM (International Society for Rock Mechanics) geomechanical parameters through non-contact methodologies, in the frame of the remote survey of rock masses, is herein presented. It was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,408 Views
21 Pages

8 July 2024

With the rapid development of UAV and infrared imaging technology, the cost of UAV infrared imaging technology has decreased steadily. Small target detection technology in aerial infrared images has great potential for applications in many fields, es...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Civil Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
11,516 Views
20 Pages

Non-Invasive Methods of Quantifying Heat Stress Response in Farm Animals with Special Reference to Dairy Cattle

  • Veerasamy Sejian,
  • Chikamagalore Gopalakrishna Shashank,
  • Mullakkalparambil Velayudhan Silpa,
  • Aradotlu Parameshwarappa Madhusoodan and ,
  • Chinnasamy Devaraj and
  • Sven Koenig
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 October 2022

Non-invasive methods of detecting heat stress magnitude for livestock is gaining momentum in the context of global climate change. Therefore, the objective of this review is to focus on the synthesis information pertaining to recent efforts to develo...

(This article belongs to the Section Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
140 Citations
24,271 Views
27 Pages

21 June 2018

The article provides a review of the state-of-art non-destructive testing (NDT) methods used for evaluation of integrated circuit (IC) packaging. The review identifies various types of the defects and the capabilities of most common NDT methods emplo...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,774 Views
26 Pages

Multi-Technique Approach for the Sustainable Characterisation and the Digital Documentation of Painted Surfaces in the Hypogeum Environment of the Priscilla Catacombs in Rome

  • Paola Calicchia,
  • Sofia Ceccarelli,
  • Francesco Colao,
  • Chiara D’Erme and ,
  • Valeria Di Tullio,
  • Massimiliano Guarneri,
  • Loredana Luvidi,
  • Noemi Proietti,
  • Valeria Spizzichino and
  • Rocco Zito
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

24 September 2024

The purpose of this paper is to identify an efficient, sustainable, and “green” approach to address the challenges of the preservation of hypogeum heritage, focusing on the problem of moisture, a recurring cause of degradation in porous m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cultural Heritage Conservation: Green Nuclear Physics for Non-invasive Approach to the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Artifacts)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,465 Views
20 Pages

Review of Biomedical Applications of Contactless Imaging of Neonates Using Infrared Thermography and Beyond

  • Abbas K. AlZubaidi,
  • Yahya Ethawi,
  • Georg M. Schmölzer,
  • Sherif Sherif and ,
  • Michael Narvey and
  • Molly Seshia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 October 2018

The sick preterm infant monitoring is an intriguing job that medical staff in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) must deal with on a daily basis. As a standards monitoring procedure, preterm infants are monitored via sensors and electrodes that are...

  • Review
  • Open Access
601 Views
29 Pages

A Narrative Review of Early Pregnancy Diagnosis Technologies for Livestock: From Conventional to Intelligent Systems

  • Yang Shen,
  • Yujie Zhang,
  • Junyi Meng,
  • Yutong Han and ,
  • Jitong Xu,
  • Hongying Wang and
  • Liangju Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 September 2026

Accurate and efficient early pregnancy diagnosis (EPD) in livestock is crucial for optimizing breeding management and enhancing productivity in modern animal husbandry. Over the past century, EPD technology has evolved from empirical methods to sophi...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal System and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,226 Views
17 Pages

An Automated Semantic Segmentation Methodology for Infrared Thermography Analysis of the Human Hand

  • Melchior Arnal,
  • Cyprien Bourrilhon,
  • Vincent Beauchamps,
  • Fabien Sauvet and ,
  • Hassan Zahouani and
  • Coralie Thieulin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Infrared thermography is a non-invasive measurement method that can accurately describe immediate temperature changes of an object. In the case of continuous in vivo hand measurements, extracting correct thermal data requires a first step of image se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Assisted Machine-Environment Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
4,051 Views
17 Pages

Barriers of Mobile Commerce Adoption Intention: Perceptions of Generation X in Malaysia

  • Krishna Moorthy,
  • Ching Suet Ling,
  • Yeong Weng Fatt,
  • Chan Mun Yee and ,
  • Elaine Chong Ket Yin,
  • Kwa Sin Yee and
  • Lee Kok Wei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Many telecommunication companies in Malaysia have been attracted to invest significantly in the development of mobile commerce due to the explosive growth in the usage and market penetration of mobile devices. Eventhough generation X is characterized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,116 Views
23 Pages

Additive manufacturing (AM) enables fabricating intricate objects with complex geometries previously unattainable through conventional methods. This process encompasses various techniques, including powder bed fusion (PBF), such as selective laser si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,809 Views
15 Pages

30 April 2025

With the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, more and more AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT and DeepSeek) are beginning to affect work and lifestyles. Although AI chatbots have brought many opportunities to education and teacher trainee...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,397 Views
38 Pages

22 July 2021

A current trend in mechanical testing technologies is to equip researchers and industrial practitioners with the facilities for non-destructive characterisation of the deformation and fracture processes occurring on different scales. The synergistic...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,260 Views
13 Pages

The Use of Infrared Thermography for the Monitoring of Udder Teat Stress Caused by Milking Machines

  • Francesco Maria Tangorra,
  • Veronica Redaelli,
  • Fabio Luzi and
  • Mauro Zaninelli

22 June 2019

The aim of this study was to test infrared thermography (IRT) as a possible tool for scoring teat color changes after cluster removal; thus, indirectly, to classify the short-term stress of teats caused by milking machines. Thermographic images (n =...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dairy Cow Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,754 Views
14 Pages

Monitoring the training load is crucial in sports science research, as it provides scientific evidence for assessing training effects, optimizing athletic performance, and preventing overtraining by quantifying both external and internal loads. Altho...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomechanics and Sports Medicine)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,791 Views
25 Pages

A Past, Present, and Prospective Review on Microwave Nondestructive Evaluation of Composite Coatings

  • Teng Wei Siang,
  • Muhammad Firdaus Akbar,
  • Ghassan Nihad Jawad,
  • Tan Shin Yee and
  • Mohd Ilyas Sobirin Mohd Sazali

30 July 2021

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of composite coatings for numerous applications, including aerospace, aircraft, and maritime vessels. These materials owe this popularity surge to the superior strength, weight, stiffness, and electr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art on Coatings Research in Asia)