FPGA-based of Thermogram Enhancement Algorithm for Non-destructive Thermal Characterization

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Department of Electronic Engineering, Cheongju University, Cheongju, South Korea

Abstract

Thermal imaging technology is used to translate thermal energy or heat into visible light for analyzing the sample images known as a thermogram. It has numerous applications such as for surveillance, medical diagnosis, and other industry which requires a non-contact temperature measurement, etc. The image results of this proposed algorithm show more visible features in terms of the separation between the sampled object and its background. The extraction process used the integrated Otsu method and the high-value thermal algorithm. The color mapping process helps to highlight the necessary characteristics of the sampled thermal images. This work is synthesized using Xilinx Zync 7000 ZED ZC702. The experimental results extracted more significant features and characteristics of the sampled image. In addition, the proposed algorithm shows a faster processing time and minimizes the resource utilization compared with the other methods.

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International Journal of Engineering
Volume 31, Issue 10
TRANSACTIONS A: Basics
October 2018
Pages 1675-1681

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