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Environmental-induced temperature variations across the bridge deck were one of the major factors that degraded the performance of delamination detection through thermography. The non-uniformly distributed thermal background yields the…
Environmental and surface texture-induced temperature variation across the bridge deck is a major source of errors in delamination detection through thermography. This type of external noise poses a significant challenge for conventional…
Using thermography as a nondestructive method for subsurface detection of the concrete structure has been developed for decades. However, the performance of current practice is limited due to the heavy reliance on the environmental…
Boundary detection has long been a fundamental tool for image processing and computer vision, supporting the analysis of static and time-varying data. In this work, we built upon the theory of Graph Signal Processing to propose a novel…
Thermography is especially valuable for the military and other users of surveillance cameras. Some recent methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are proposed to reconstruct the thermal scenes in 3D from a set of thermal and RGB…
Nondestructive detecting defects (NDD) in concrete structures have been explored for decades. Although limited successes were reported, major limitations still exist. The major limitations are the high noises to signal ratio created from…
Thermal infrared imaging offers the advantage of all-weather capability, enabling non-intrusive measurement of an object's surface temperature. Consequently, thermal infrared images are employed to reconstruct 3D models that accurately…
Over the past decades, thermal ablation procedures such as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) have been developed vaporize cancerous tissues in a focal area. Thermal ablation has the potential to non-invasively eliminate tumors and…
We study the problem of estimating the temperature of Gaussian systems with feasible measurements, namely Gaussian and photo-detection-like measurements. For Gaussian measurements, we develop a general method to identify the optimal…
The thermal dynamics in thermo-mechanical systems exhibits a much slower time scale compared to the structural dynamics. In this work, we use the method of multiple scales to reduce the thermo-mechanical structural models with a…
This paper deals with the parallel simulation of delamination problems at the meso-scale by means of multi-scale methods, the aim being the Virtual Delamination Testing of Composite parts. In the non-linear context, Domain Decomposition…
Laplacian Pyramid Blending is a commonly used method for several seamless image blending tasks. While the method works well for images with comparable intensity levels, it is often unable to produce artifact free images for applications…
Information from an image occurs over multiple and distinct spatial scales. Image pyramid multiresolution representations are a useful data structure for image analysis and manipulation over a spectrum of spatial scales. This paper employs…
In the last few years, the fusion of multi-modal data has been widely studied for various applications such as robotics, gesture recognition, and autonomous navigation. Indeed, high-quality visual sensors are expensive, and consumer-grade…
As quotidian use of sophisticated cameras surges, people in modern society are more interested in capturing fine-quality images. However, the quality of the images might be inferior to people's expectations due to the noise contamination in…
We introduce a technique based on infrared thermal emission, termed depth thermography, that can remotely measure the temperature distribution beneath the surface of certain objects. Depth thermography utilizes the thermal-emission spectrum…
Efficient and robust 3D scene representation is crucial in autonomous driving, robotics, and related fields. While RGB images provide valuable content for 3D reconstruction, other modalities like thermal or depth can enable additional…
In this paper, we develop a procedure for the detection of the contours of thermal bridges from thermographic images, in order to study the energetic performance of buildings. Two main steps of the above method are: the enhancement of the…
The majority of human detection methods rely on the sensor using visible lights (e.g., RGB cameras) but such sensors are limited in scenarios with degraded vision conditions. In this paper, we present a multimodal human detection system…
Image defogging is a technique used extensively for enhancing visual quality of images in bad weather condition. Even though defogging algorithms have been well studied, defogging performance is degraded by demosaicking artifacts and sensor…