Method for improving visualization of infrared images

Mario Cimbalista Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.2063670

21 May 2014 Method for improving visualization of infrared images

Mario Cimbalista Jr.

Proceedings Volume 9105, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVI; 910504 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063670
Event: SPIE Sensing Technology + Applications, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Thermography has an extremely important difference from the other visual image converting electronic systems, like XRays or ultrasound: the infrared camera operator usually spend hour after hour with his/her eyes looking only at infrared images, sometimes several intermittent hours a day if not six or more continuous hours. This operational characteristic has a very important impact on yield, precision, errors and misinterpretation of the infrared images contents. Despite a great hardware development over the last fifty years, quality infrared thermography still lacks for a solution for these problems. The human eye physiology has not evolved to see infrared radiation neither the mind-brain has the capability to understand and decode infrared information. Chemical processes inside the human eye and functional cells distributions as well as cognitive-perceptual impact of images plays a crucial role in the perception, detection, and other steps of dealing with infrared images. The system presented here, called ThermoScala and patented in USA solves this problem using a coding process applicable to an original infrared image, generated from any value matrix, from any kind of infrared camera to make it much more suitable for human usage, causing a substantial difference in the way the retina and the brain processes the resultant images. The result obtained is a much less exhaustive way to see, identify and interpret infrared images generated by any infrared camera that uses this conversion process.

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Mario Cimbalista Jr. "Method for improving visualization of infrared images", Proc. SPIE 9105, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVI, 910504 (21 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063670

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