Thermal image analysis for detecting facemask leakage

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5782, Issue , 2005, Pages 46-53

  Dowdall, Jonathan ^a   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^a   Levine, James ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Facemask leakage; Thermography; Touchless monitoring

Indexed keywords

FACEMASK LEAKAGE; INFRARED SPECTRUM; THERMAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; TOUCHLESS MONITORING;

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAT TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; THERMODYNAMICS;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 26444570343     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.601177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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