Image enhancement in transient lock-in thermography through time series reconstruction and spatial slope correction

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1079-1089

  Chatterjee, Krishnendu ^a   Tuli, Suneet ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Lock in thermography; nonuniform heating; spatial slope correction; surface emissivity variation; time series reconstruction

Indexed keywords

LOCKIN THERMOGRAPHY; NONUNIFORM HEATING; SLOPE CORRECTIONS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; TIME SERIES RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TESTING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TIME SERIES;

HEATING;

EID: 84858342875     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2174095     Document Type: Article

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