Showing papers in "Infrared Physics & Technology in 2016"

TL;DR: This paper proposes a new image fusion method based on saliency detection and two-scale image decomposition, which is fast and efficient and able to integrate the visually significant information of source images into the fused image.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of thermography NDT techniques for composites inspection was conducted based on an orderly and concise literature survey and detailed analysis, and some research trends were predicted.

TL;DR: The proposed WIPI model is converted to a column-wise weighted robust principal component analysis (CWRPCA) problem, and a target unlikelihood coefficient is designed based on the steering kernel, serving as the adaptive weight for each column.

TL;DR: An online and non invasive technique that uses infrared thermography, in order to detect the presence of inter turn fault in induction motor drive, which is considered the most severe fault in the motors.

TL;DR: An effective infrared and visible image fusion scheme in nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain, in which the NSCT is firstly employed to decompose each of the source images into a series of high frequency subbands and one low frequency subband.

TL;DR: The experimental results show that the proposed spatial–temporal local contrast filter (STLCF) has great superiority in moving point target detection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the possibility of using hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technique to discriminate viable and non-viable corn seeds, where a group of corn samples were heat treated by using microwave process while another group of seeds were kept as control group (untreated).

TL;DR: A novel nonsubsampled contourlet transform transform (NSCT) based image fusion approach, implementing an adaptive-Gaussian fuzzy membership method, compressed sensing technique, total variation based gradient descent reconstruction algorithm, is proposed for the fusion computation of infrared and visible images.

TL;DR: An overview of studies that relate foot temperature with diabetic foot problems through infrared thermography is presented and the different methods for thermogram analysis are presented, being the asymmetric analysis the method most used so far.

TL;DR: Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed new infrared and visible image fusion algorithm can highlight the infrared objects as well as retain the background information in visible image.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of W doping on the thermochromic properties of VO2 thin films were studied, and the results showed that W atoms entered the crystal lattice of VO 2 and the transition temperature decreases gradually with increasing doping amount of W.

TL;DR: Bichara, Laura Cecilia as discussed by the authors, et al. Facultad de Bioquimica, Quimica y Farmacia. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman.

TL;DR: This paper uses a drone combined with a thermal far-infrared camera to detect potential sinkholes over a large area based on computer vision and pattern classification techniques and proves that the CNN ensemble and the BRF one with handcrafted features are better at detecting sinkholes than other classifiers or standalone CNN.

TL;DR: Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed image enhancement with the AGCCH method can perform well in brightness preservation, contrast enhancement, and detail preservation, and it is superior to previous state-of-the-art methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, a low-velocity impact is detected using infrared thermography, and different damages in the impacted composites are analyzed in the thermal maps, and the results obtained show that the combination of the above two detection methods can greatly improve the capability for detecting and evaluating the impact damage in CFRP.

TL;DR: An improved fusion algorithm for infrared and visible images based on multi-scale transform is proposed and can significantly improve image fusion performance, accomplish notable target information and high contrast and preserve rich details information at the same time.

TL;DR: Large numbers of experiments demonstrate that the proposed method based on in-frame inter-frame information to detect infrared moving small targets accurately has satisfying detection effectiveness and robustness for infraredMoving small target detection under complex cloud backgrounds.

TL;DR: A review on the sub-THz/THz gyrotrons is performed in this article, where the present development status of gyros can be divided into three streams for the sake of better understanding: 1. low frequency ( 200 GHz), 2. high frequency ( GHz), and 3.

TL;DR: In this article, thin films of manganese (III) chloride 5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl-21H,23H-porphine (MnTPPCl) with different film thickness were deposited by an evaporation technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of buffer layer on the formation and thermochromic performances of VO 2 films, using RF magnetron sputtering method, was investigated, and three kinds of buffer layers SiO 2, TiO 2 and SnO 2 on soda lime float-glass were fabricated.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the proposed fast method for real-time small target detection in single image frame under various complex backgrounds outperforms the state-of-the-art methods not only in detection accuracy, but also in computation efficiency.

TL;DR: A greater improvement in estimation accuracy can be achieved by removing the unnecessary parameter, and the combination of laser power cutting speed forms the most influential combination foe the prediction of water-jet assisted underwater laser cutting parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, a hyperspectral imaging system in the spectral region of 400-1000nm was used for visualization and determination of intramuscular fat concentration in beef samples, and spectral information was extracted from each single sample from the fat and non-fat regions.

TL;DR: In this article, the spectral normal-hemispherical reflectance of an optically thick sample of porous alumina ceramics produced by hydrothermal oxidation of aluminum and subsequent high-temperature treatment of boehmite (or bohmite), AlO(OH), is used in combination with the published data for absorption coefficient of alumina to retrieve the near-infrared optical properties of the alumina Ceramics at both room and elevated temperatures.

TL;DR: An image segmentation approach to enhance the feature extraction in infrared image analysis and demonstrates that the presented segmented feature enhancement approach outperforms the one from the original image using both Naive Bayes classifier and support vector machine.

TL;DR: Experimental results and objective metrics demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm over the conventional ones used to compare.

TL;DR: This work designed a systematical way to combine four features, including Local binary pattern, Gabor jet descriptor, Weber local descriptor and Down-sampling feature, which outperforms methods that leverage only a single feature and is robust to noise, occlusion, expression, low resolution and different l 1 -minimization methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the results obtained through Raman spectroscopy and FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) measurements of healthy and cancerous breast tissues were either embedded in paraffin or deparaffinized.

TL;DR: The detection algorithm based on the classical W4 and frame difference cannot only overcome the shortcoming of falsely detecting because of state mutations from background, but also eliminate holes caused by frame difference.

TL;DR: The proposed method was successfully applied to the pedestrian unsafe behavior (PUB) dataset captured from far-infrared camera at night and its behavior recognition accuracy is confirmed to be higher than that of some algorithms related to CNNs, with a shorter processing time.