COMMERCIAL VISION SYSTEMS In the last few years thermal imaging has found its way into many more commercial applications. Most of these applications require a low cost product with an uncooled detector. These sensors image in the LWIR, or longwave infrared band (7 14 μm). Different types of uncooled detectors are available on the market. Since the infrared detector is the heart of any thermal i...

A first step towards the development of a model for the Scanning Laser Source technique is presented, which entails an analytical formulation for the transient response of an isotropic, homogeneous, linearly elastic half-space submitted to a pulsed laser line source operating in the thermoelastic regime. The formulation takes into account optical penetration into the material and thermal diffus...

We consider a scheme for coherent imaging that exploits the classical correlation of two beams obtained by splitting incoherent thermal radiation. This case is analyzed in parallel with the configuration based on two entangled beams produced by parametric down-conversion, and a precise formal analogy is pointed out. This analogy opens the possibility of using classical beams from thermal radiat...

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods are being developed at Argonne National Laboratory for thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) applied to components in the hot-gas path of advanced high-efficiency and low-emission gas turbines, including syn-gas fired turbines. As TBCs become “prime reliant,” it becomes important to know their conditions nondestructively to assure the reliability of these compo...

Face recognition is a wide area having many techniques to achieve the same. The aim of the paper is to introduce Thermal Imaging and to study how it can be used for facial recognition and also for deception detection. This paper looks into the single modal and multi modal face recognition techniques involving infrared (IR) imaging. It then moves to analyze facial variations to study deception u...

We investigate the nature of correlations in Gaussian light sources used for ghost imaging. We adopt methods from quantum information theory to distinguish genuinely quantum from classical correlations. Combining a microscopic analysis of speckle-speckle correlations with an effective coarse-grained description of the beams, we show that quantum correlations exist even in 'classical'-like therm...

Coupled electro-thermal simulations are performed to demonstrate predictive design of microwave devices. These simulations are based on an original, fully physical, thermal impedance matrix approach, capable of describing 'nearly exactly' time-dependent heat flow in complex 3-dimensional systems, whilst requiring no model reduction for electro-thermal CAD. This thermal model is validated by the...

The technique of thermal wave thermography combines advantages of both conventional thermal wave measurement and thermography using a commercial IR camera. This technique allows for shorter imaging time and depth profiling. Non-uniformity of heating area and optical surface structures can be suppressed in phase images. Several examples show the potential applications of thermal wave thermograph...

We report an experimental demonstration of optical coherence tomography for transmissive objects utilizing second-order correlation ghost imaging with thermal light. To evaluate the longitudinal resolution of our system, the concept of the imaging longitudinal coherence length is introduced, which is more accurate for judging the image quality of ghost imaging with unequal optical paths than th...

Many thermal imaging applications stand to gain from the inclusion of multispectral capabilities in the long wave infrared (LWIR). While infrared spectral imaging systems presently exist, the addition of multispectral capabilities will provide a number of advantages, including the ability to accurately quantify the temperature distribution a scene, and the potential for dramatically improved ta...