English
Related papers

Related papers: Why are thermal images blurry

200 papers

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task since it requires excessively more low-level spatial information of the image compared to other computer vision problems. The accuracy of pixel-level classification can be affected by many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zülfiye Kütük , Görkem Algan

We introduce DeepIR, a new thermal image processing framework that combines physically accurate sensor modeling with deep network-based image representation. Our key enabling observations are that the images captured by thermal sensors can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Vishwanath Saragadam , Akshat Dave , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Rongfeng Lu , Hangyu Chen , Zunjie Zhu , Yuhang Qin , Ming Lu , Le Zhang , Chenggang Yan , Anke Xue

We introduce Deep Thermal Imaging, a new approach for close-range automatic recognition of materials to enhance the understanding of people and ubiquitous technologies of their proximal environment. Our approach uses a low-cost mobile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Youngjun Cho , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze , Nicolai Marquardt , Simon J. Julier

Thermal waves are caused by pure diffusion: their amplitude is decreased by more than a factor of 500 within a propagation distance of one wavelength. The diffusion equation, which describes the temperature as a function of space and time,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Peter Burgholzer

By using the ghost imaging technique, we experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of the diffraction pattern of a {\em pure phase} object by using the classical correlation of incoherent thermal light split on a beam splitter. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bache , D. Magatti , A. Gatti , E. Brambilla , F. Ferri , L. A. Lugiato

Grayscale images are fundamental to many image processing applications like data compression, feature extraction, printing and tone mapping. However, some image information is lost when converting from color to grayscale. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Prasoon Ambalathankandy , Yafei Ou , Masayuki Ikebe

Ghost imaging was first demonstrated with entangled photon pairs and well-known for its peculiar properties. The signal beam that illuminates the object possesses no spatial resolution, whereas the reference beam, which never interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Meixue Chen , Yiqi Song , Yu Gu , Huafan Zhang , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

The temperature-dependent photoluminescence of perovskite quantum dots (CsPbBr3) in the visible band, is analyzed to evaluate their suitability for use in thermometry. A differential measurement of the photoluminescence can be used to…

Autonomous driving relies on deriving understanding of objects and scenes through images. These images are often captured by sensors in the visible spectrum. For improved detection capabilities we propose the use of thermal sensors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Kshitij Agrawal , Anbumani Subramanian

We investigate experimentally fundamental properties of coherent ghost imaging using spatially incoherent beams generated from a pseudo-thermal source. A complementarity between the coherence of the beams and the correlation between them is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gatti , M. Bache , D. Magatti , E. Brambilla , F. Ferri , L. A. Lugiato

Thermal tomography is an imaging technique for deducing information about the internal structure of a physical body from temperature measurements on its boundary. This work considers time-dependent thermal tomography modeled by a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen

Thermal images model the long-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum and provide meaningful information even when there is no visible illumination. Yet, unlike imagery that represents radiation from the visible continuum, infrared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Nolan B. Gutierrez , William J. Beksi

Optical images of transparent three-dimensional objects can be different from a replica of the object's cross section in the image plane due to refraction at the surface or in the body of the object. Simulations of the object's image are…

A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, reflectance, or illumination rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathan T. Barron , Jitendra Malik

In recent years, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated significant potential in encoding highly-detailed 3D geometry and environmental appearance, positioning themselves as a promising alternative to traditional explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Tianxiang Ye , Qi Wu , Junyuan Deng , Guoqing Liu , Liu Liu , Songpengcheng Xia , Liang Pang , Wenxian Yu , Ling Pei

In this work, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate the possibility to create an image of an opaque object using a few-photon thermal optical field. We utilize the Quadrature-Noise Shadow Imaging (QSI) technique that detects the…

Thermal images from low-cost cameras often suffer from low resolution, fixed pattern noise, and other localized degradations. Available datasets for thermal imaging are also limited in both size and diversity. To address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Piyush Dashpute , Niki Nezakati , Wolfgang Heidrich , Vishwanath Saragadam

Underexposure regions are vital to construct a complete perception of the surroundings for safe autonomous driving. The availability of thermal cameras has provided an essential alternate to explore regions where other optical sensors lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Farzeen Munir , Shoaib Azam , Muhammd Aasim Rafique , Ahmad Muqeem Sheri , Moongu Jeon , Witold Pedrycz

Image retrieval based on deep convolutional features has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in popular benchmarks. In this paper, we present a unified solution to address deep convolutional feature aggregation and image re-ranking by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shanmin Pang , Jin Ma , Jianru Xue , Jihua Zhu , Vicente Ordonez