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11 May 2016 Automatic thermographic scanning with the creation of 3D panoramic views of buildings
G. Ferrarini, G. Cadelano, A. Bortolin
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Abstract
Infrared thermography is widely applied to the inspection of building, enabling the identification of thermal anomalies due to the presence of hidden structures, air leakages, and moisture. One of the main advantages of this technique is the possibility to acquire rapidly a temperature map of a surface. However, due to the actual low-resolution of thermal camera and the necessity of scanning surfaces with different orientation, during a building survey it is necessary to take multiple images.

In this work a device based on quantitative infrared thermography, called aIRview, has been applied during building surveys to automatically acquire thermograms with a camera mounted on a robotized pan tilt unit. The goal is to perform a first rapid survey of the building that could give useful information for the successive quantitative thermal investigations. For each data acquisition, the instrument covers a rotational field of view of 360° around the vertical axis and up to 180° around the horizontal one. The obtained images have been processed in order to create a full equirectangular projection of the ambient.

For this reason the images have been integrated into a web visualization tool, working with web panorama viewers such as Google Street View, creating a webpage where it is possible to have a three dimensional virtual visit of the building. The thermographic data are embedded with the visual imaging and with other sensor data, facilitating the understanding of the physical phenomena underlying the temperature distribution.
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G. Ferrarini, G. Cadelano, and A. Bortolin "Automatic thermographic scanning with the creation of 3D panoramic views of buildings", Proc. SPIE 9861, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVIII, 98610W (11 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2225083
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KEYWORDS
Buildings

Cameras

Thermography

Panoramic photography

Sensors

Infrared radiation

Infrared imaging

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