Means of eliminating background effects for defect detection and visualization in infrared thermography

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 879-884

  Plotnlkov, Yuri A ^a,c   Rajic, Nik ^b,d,e   Winfree, William P ^a,f,g,h  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AERO AND MAR RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Australia)

^c MOSCOW POWER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^h NASA Langley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSE INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; POLYNOMIALS; THERMAL NOISE; VISIBILITY;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 0033734655     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602460     Document Type: Article

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