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Calibration of a camera have various applications in computer vision. This process is particularly challenging with a thermal camera instead of a standard color one. A calibration target with two layers of different thermal emissivity is commonly used but reflects appear and degrade the corner extraction of the chessboard. While traditional and commonly used methods heat the target chessboard, we cool it down that inverts the distribution of emission of the two layers. The reflects on the reflective layer enhance the contrast instead of decreasing it. Experiments on various configurations and orientations demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.

Thermal imaging is nowadays widely used in many industrial areas for non destructive analysis. This paper focuses on the detection by active thermography of cracks in a transparent and specular piece of glass. A continuous laser scans the target by creating a hot spot that is acquired by a thermal camera. A thermal map is computed by averaging of thermal measurements for all the positions of the hot spot on the target. Then edge filters are applied to highlight the cracks. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the material damage estimation in a short processing time.