In some applications of thermography, spatial orientation of the thermal infrared information can be desirable. By the photogrammetric processing of thermal infrared (TIR) images, it is possible to create 2D and 3D results augmented by thermal infrar...
12 February 2021
The evaluation of physiological and psychological states using thermal infrared images is based on the skin temperature of specific regions of interest, such as the nose, mouth, and cheeks. To extract the skin temperature of the region of interest, f...
24 August 2023
Atmospheric water vapor is an important greenhouse gas, mainly distributed in the lower tropospheric levels where its concentration varies significantly in space and time; consequently, so does precipitable water. This work uses information from ther...
Thermal infrared imagery plays an important role in a variety of fields, such as surface temperature inversion and urban heat island effect analysis, but the spatial resolution has severely restricted the potential for further applications. Data fusi...
The photogrammetric processing of thermal infrared (TIR) images deals with several difficulties. TIR images ordinarily have low-resolution and the contrast of the images is very low. These factors strongly complicate the photogrammetric processing, e...
Nighttime Thermal InfraRed (NTIR) image colorization, also known as the translation of NTIR images into Daytime Color Visible (DCV) images, can facilitate human and intelligent system perception of nighttime scenes under weak lighting conditions. End...
Human pose estimation has a variety of real-life applications, including human action recognition, AI-powered personal trainers, robotics, motion capture and augmented reality, gaming, and video surveillance. However, most current human pose estimati...
In recent years, ablation of the buffer layer in high-voltage cables has become a prevalent issue compromising the reliability of power transmission systems. Given the internal location of these faults, direct monitoring and assessment are challengin...
As the planet most similar to Earth in the solar system, Mars holds an important role in exploring significant scientific problems, such as the evolution of the solar system and the origins of life. Research on Mars mainly rely on planetary remote se...
Nowadays, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in women. Mammography is the standard screening imaging technique for the early detection of breast cancer. However, thermal infrared images (thermographies) can be used to reveal le...
Traditional methods of cow estrus monitoring technology are not suitable for the current needs of large-scale, intensive and welfare-based farming. There is a need to improve the detection rate of cow estrus and to reduce the emergency response cause...
In order to achieve accurate identification of a shearer cutting state, infrared thermal images were creatively adopted in this paper. As the position of a shearer cutting unit is constantly changing, and the temperature in the vicinity is obviously...
Rock disasters caused by rock fractures seriously threaten the safe and sustainable mining of deep coal resources. The infrared thermal imaging of rock fractures has a non-uniform distribution. This is important information for the monitoring and ear...
Considering animal welfare, the free-range laying hen farming model is increasingly gaining attention. However, in some countries, large-scale farming still relies on the cage-rearing model, making the focus on the welfare of caged laying hens equall...
Thermal infrared (TIR) whole-sky imaging enables continuous cloud observations during both daytime and nighttime, making it an important tool for ground-based cloud monitoring. However, existing infrared cloud detection methods mainly rely on manuall...
Facial temperature distribution in healthy people shows contralateral symmetry, which is generally disrupted by facial paralysis. This study aims to develop a quantitative thermal asymmetry analysis method for early diagnosis of facial paralysis in i...
Infrared thermal imaging offers objective physiological insights for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), yet automated acupoint localization struggles with low texture and extreme pose variations. To address this, we constructed a multi-pose thermal...
The leakage of underground natural gas has a negative impact on the environment and safety. Trace amounts of gas leak concentration cannot reach the threshold for direct detection. The low concentration of natural gas can cause changes in surface veg...
Canopy temperature (Tc) is used to characterize plant water physiology, and thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing is a convenient technology for measuring Tc in forest ecosystems. However, the images produced through this method contain background pi...
The surface temperature (ST) of high-emissivity surfaces is an important parameter in climate systems. The empirical methods for retrieving ST for high-emissivity surfaces from hyperspectral thermal infrared (HypTIR) images require spectrally continu...
Piping is a major factor contributing to river embankment breaches, particularly during flood season in small and medium rivers. To reduce the costs of earth rock embankment inspections, avoid the need for human inspectors and enable the quick and wi...
Marangoni condensation is formed due to the surface tension gradient caused by the local temperature or concentration gradient on the condensate surface; thus, the investigation of the surface temperature distribution characteristics is crucial to re...
Detecting thermal bridges in building envelopes should be a priority to improve the thermal performance of buildings. Recently, thermographic surveys are being used to detect thermal bridges. However, conventional methods of detecting thermal bridges...
Obtaining thermal infrared images with prominent details, high contrast, and minimal background noise has always been a focal point of infrared technology research. To address issues such as the blurriness of details and low contrast in thermal infra...
Dams play a significant role in altering the spatial pattern of temperature in rivers and contribute to thermal pollution, which greatly affects the river aquatic ecosystems. Understanding the temporal and spatial variation of thermal pollution cause...
A novel concept towards pervasively available low-cost infrared thermal imaging system lunched on a mobile phone (MTIS) was proposed and demonstrated in this article. Through digestion on the evolutional development of milestone technologies in the a...
Pedestrian detection has important research value and practical significance. It has been used in intelligent monitoring, intelligent transportation, intelligent therapy, and automatic driving. However, in the pixel-level fusion and the feature-level...
In this paper, we proposed a nondestructive detection method for egg freshness based on infrared thermal imaging technology. We studied the relationship between egg thermal infrared images (different shell colors and cleanliness levels) and egg fresh...
Thermal infrared imaging is widely used in applications such as disaster monitoring and target recognition because it remains stable under illumination changes and supports nighttime observation. However, thermal infrared data are expensive to acquir...
To address the technical challenge of simultaneously achieving snapshot imaging capability and high spectral resolution in thermal infrared spectral imaging, this paper proposes a computational imaging method based on a snapshot divided-aperture imag...
Thermal infrared hyperspectral imager is one of the frontier payloads in current hyperspectral remote sensing research. It has broad application prospects in land and ocean temperature inversion, environmental monitoring, and other fields. However, d...
This study explored and developed high-resolution infrared thermal (HRIT) imaging for screening toddler’s fractures. A toddler’s fracture is a common tibial fracture in children younger than six years old. The study included 39 participan...
With the dynamic development of imaging technologies and increasing demands in various industrial fields, neural networks are playing a crucial role in advanced design, monitoring, and analysis techniques. This review article presents the latest rese...
In this study, a new monitoring method was developed, titled infrared thermal imaging technology, which can effectively evaluate the thermal effect of the charge-discharge test in the vanadium/iodine redox flow battery (V/I RFB). The results show tha...
In industrial applications, thermal infrared images, which are commonly used, often suffer from issues such as low contrast and blurred details. Traditional image enhancement algorithms are limited in their effectiveness in improving the visual quali...
Vegetation has become very important decision-making information in promoting tasks such as urban regeneration, urban planning, environment, and landscaping. In the past, the vegetation index was calculated by combining images of various wavelength r...
When traditional super-resolution reconstruction methods are applied to infrared thermal images, they often ignore the problem of poor image quality caused by the imaging mechanism, which makes it difficult to obtain high-quality reconstruction resul...
During the night or in poorly lit areas, thermal cameras are a better choice instead of normal cameras for security surveillance because they do not rely on illumination. A thermal camera is able to detect a person within its view, but identification...
Infrared thermal imaging has been widely used to show the correlation between thermal characteristics of the body and muscle activation. This study aims to investigate a method using thermal imaging to visualize and differentiate target muscles durin...
Thermal defects of substation equipment have a great impact on the stability of power systems. Temperature is crucial for thermal defect detection in infrared images. The traditional detection methods, which have low efficiency and poor accuracy, rec...
This study demonstrates the applicability of visible-near infrared and thermal imaging for detection of Huanglongbing (HLB) disease in citrus trees. Visible-near infrared (440–900 nm) and thermal infrared spectral reflectance data were collected from...
Infrared sensors capture infrared rays radiated by objects to form thermal images. They have a steady ability to penetrate smoke and fog, and are widely used in security monitoring, military, etc. However, civilian infrared detectors with lower resol...
Infrared and visible images provide complementary information for transmission equipment inspection, but a single modality is often insufficient to simultaneously represent structural defects and thermal abnormalities. To address this issue, this stu...
Infrared thermal (IRT) imaging is a modality that allows non-invasive and non-ionizing monitoring of skin surface temperature distribution, providing underlining physiological information on peripheral blood flow, autonomic nervous system, vasoconstr...
Thermally comfortable indoor environments are of great importance, as modern lifestyles often require people to spend more than 20 h per day indoors. Since most of the thermal comfort models use a variety of different environmental and personal facto...
Advancements in satellite technologies are increasing the power density of electronics and payloads. When the power consumption increases within a limited volume, waste heat generation also increases and this necessitates a proper and efficient therm...
High-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing images can more accurately retrieve land surface temperature and describe the spatial pattern of urban thermal environment. The Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (TIS), which has high spatial resoluti...
The present review aims to analyze the application of infrared thermal imaging, aided by bio-heat models, as a tool for the diagnosis of skin and breast cancers. The state of the art of the related technical procedures, bio-heat transfer modeling, an...
An infrared lifetime thermal imaging technique for the measurement of lettuce seed viability was evaluated. Thermal emission signals from mid-infrared images of healthy seeds and seeds aged for 24, 48, and 72 h were obtained and reconstructed using r...
Detecting transformer oil leakage from infrared thermal images is challenging due to complex thermal backgrounds, low contrast, and sensor noise. To address these issues, this study proposes IR-OilNet, a lightweight CNN–Transformer fusion netwo...
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