Profiling and characterization of flame radicals by combining spectroscopic imaging and neural network techniques

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1854-1860

  Krabicka, Jan ^a   Lu, Gang ^a   Yan, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron multiplying charge coupled device (EMCCD); flame; flame radicals; image processing; neural networks; principal component analysis (PCA)

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION FLAMES; COMBUSTION GAS; COMBUSTION RIG; COMPUTING ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; FLAME; FLAME RADICALS; FUEL RATIO; GAS-FIRED; IMAGING AND IMAGE PROCESSING; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL SPLITTING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

FREE RADICALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 79953804443     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2102411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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