• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.508-515
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• 2011

Bovine incisor was investigated using active infrared thermography(IRT) to visualize crack on bovine teeth. An artificial crack was carefully created in bovine incisor sample by compression load of universal tensile machine. While applying a sinusoidal heat wave to the cracked bovine incisor through halogen lamp, consecutive digital infrared images was captured from the sample surface at a frequency synchronized with heat excitation. Phase information of thermal image was calculated by four-point correlation method and processed to produce the phase image of bovine incisor. This phase image showed clearly the crack on the incisor, which was hardly detected in traditional passive thermography.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2011

A LabVIEW program has been developed together with simple infrared thermography(IRT) system to control the lock-in conditions of the system efficiently. The IR imaging software was designed to operate both of infrared camera and halogen lamp by synchronizing them with periodic sine signal based on thyristor(SCR) circuits. LabVIEW software was programmed to provide users with screen-menu functions by which it can change the period and energy of heat source, operate the camera to acquire image, and monitor the state of the system on the computer screen. In experiment, lock-in IR image for a specimen with artificial hole defects was obtained by the developed IRT system and compared with optical image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.8-10
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• 2019

열화상 장비는 빛이 없는 암흑 상태에서도 물체에서 발산하는 적외선을 탐지하여 이를 영상으로 제공하는 장비이다. 이러한 장점으로 기존 활용되던 군사 분야와 더불어 자동차 및 감시시스템 등 다양한 민수 분야로 활용분야가 넓어지고 있다. 따라서 기존 방식인 FPGA 기반 열화상 이미지 모듈은 민수 시장의 다양한 요구사항과 환경을 반영하기에는 힘들 실정이다. 그에 따라 FPGA 기반 시스템의 단점을 보완하고 추가적인 요구사항을 만족하는 시스템의 필요성이 대두되었다. 본 논문에서는 상용 이미지 프로세서 기반 열화상 이미지 처리 모듈을 제안한다. 기존 FPGA 기반 열화상 이미지 처리 방식이 아닌 상용 이미지 프로세서 기반 구조 설계로 함으로써 다양한 영상 입·출력 인터페이스 수신 및 표준 영상 출력 포멧을 지원한다. 따라서 상용 프로세서 기반 열상 처리 모듈을 통한 시스템 개발 시 뛰어난 접근성으로 시스템 구축이 용이하고 다양한 요구사항 적용이 가능함에 따라 개발 기간 및 비용 단축, 다양한 응용에 사용이 가능할 것으로 예상한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.193-199
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• 2015

Active thermography techniques have the capability of inspecting a broad range simultaneously. By evaluating the phase difference between the defected area and the healthy area, the technique indicates the qualitative location and size of the defect. Previously, the development of the defect detection method used a variety of materials and the test specimen was done. In this study, the proposed technique of lock-in is verified with artificial specimens that have different size and depth of subsurface defects. Finally, the defect detection capability was evaluated using comparisons of the phase image and the amplitude image according to the size and depth of defects.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2012

This study conducted infrared (IR) thermography tests using pipe and plate specimens with artificial wall-thinning defects to find an optimal condition for IR thermography test on the wall-thinned nuclear piping components. In the experiment halogen lamp was used to heat the specimens. The distance between the specimen and the lamp and the intensity of halogen lamp were regarded as experimental parameter. When the distance was set to 1~2 m and the lamp intensity was above 60 % of full power, a single scanning of IR thermography detected all artificial wall-thinning defects, whose minimum dimension was $2{\Theta}=90^{\circ}$, d/t=0.5, and $L/D_o=0.25$, within the pipe of 500 mm in length. Regardless of the distance between the specimen and the lamp, the image of wall-thinning defect in IR thermography became distinctive as the intensity of halogen lamp increased. The detectability of IR thermography was similar for both plate and pipe specimens, but the optimal test condition for IR thermography depended on the type of specimen.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.162-169
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• 2012

This study detected SCC defects of dissimilar metal welded(STS304 and SA106 Gr. b) pipes using the ultrasonic infrared thermography method and the lock-in image treatment method among infrared thermography method. The infrared excitement equipment has 250 Watt of output and 20 kHz of frequency. By using the ultrasound infrared thermography method, the internal defects of dissimilar metal weld joints of pipes used at nuclear power plants could get detected. By an actual PT test, it was observed that the cracks inside the pipe existed not as a single crack but rather as a multiple cracks within a certain area and generated a hot spot image of a broad area on the thermography image. In addition, UT technology could not easily defects detected by the width of $10\;{\mu}m$ fine hair cracks. but, ultrasound infrared thermography technique was defect detected.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 2020

The thermal image system was widely used in the defence-related industry because of detect infrared light from the object without light. but, as the demand in the security system and automobile market increases, the civilian industry are expanding to the private sector. There are difficult to apply various requirement because of previous systems are based by FPGA, so it need new system that apply to various requirement. The proposed paper is thermal image processing system using common image processor. It has various requirement and scalable to support image input/output interface and device driver. If it is used to proposed system, it reduce development cost and period than previous system based FPGA. Because there has very high accessibility. In addition, it expect to have satisfaction of customer requirements, development cost, development period, release date of product.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

The thermal image device support image to detect infrared light from the object without light. It can use not only defence-related industry, but also civilian industry. This paper presents a new thermal image processing module using common image processor. The proposed module shows 10~20% performance improvement with normal mode and 50% performance improvement with sleep mode compared with the previously thermal image module based FPGA. and it guarantees high scalability according to modular system. In addition, the proposed module improves modulation and reuse, so it expect to have reduction of development period, low development cost. various application. In addition, it expect to have satisfaction of customer requirements, development design, development period, release date of product.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.301-307
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• 2024

This study introduces a novel cascade fusion architecture aimed at enhancing thermal images across various scale conditions. The processing of thermal images at multiple scales has been challenging due to the limitations of existing methods that are designed for specific scales. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a unified framework that utilizes cascade feature fusion to effectively learn multi-scale representations. Confidence maps from different image scales are fused in a cascaded manner, enabling scale-invariant learning. The architecture comprises end-to-end trained convolutional neural networks to enhance image quality by reinforcing mutual scale dependencies. Experimental results indicate that the proposed technique outperforms existing methods in multi-scale thermal image enhancement. Performance evaluation results are provided, demonstrating consistent improvements in image quality metrics. The cascade fusion design facilitates robust generalization across scales and efficient learning of cross-scale representations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.341-348
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• 2015

Active infrared thermography methods have been known to possess good fault detection capabilities for the detection of defects in materials compared to the conventional passive thermal infrared imaging techniques. However, the reliability of the technique has been under scrutiny. This paper proposes the lock-in thermography technique for the detection and estimation of artificial subsurface defect size and depth with uncertainty measurement.