Auto-minimum resolvable temperature difference method for thermal imagers

Singh, Haridwar; Pant, Millie

doi:10.1007/s12596-021-00730-x

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“…The studies in [13,14] discussed the possibilities for objective measurements and alternative MRTD measurement methods. Some researchers [15][16][17] used an indirect method to evaluate the MRTD by computing the modulation transfer function and the noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) of the thermal imager. Furthermore, a mathematical model [18] for numerical estimation of the MRTD has been proposed, while other scientists have attempted to use indirect methods to generate the four-rod targets using computer simulations [19] or a controlled blackbody [20].…”

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Multiscale Deblurred Feature Extraction Network for Automatic Four-Rod Target Detection in MRTD Measuring Process of Thermal Imagers

Guo

Guan

2023

Sensors

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The minimum resolvable temperature difference (MRTD) at which a four-rod target can be resolved is a critical parameter used to assess the comprehensive performance of thermal imaging systems, which is important for technological innovation in military and other fields. Recently, there have been some attempts to use an automatic objective approach based on deep learning to take the place of the classical manual subjective MRTD measurement approach, which is strongly affected by the psychological subjective factors of the experimenter and is limited in accuracy and speed. However, the scale variability of four-rod targets and the low pixels of infrared thermal cameras have turned out to be a challenging problem for automatic MRTD measurement. We propose a multiscale deblurred feature extraction network (MDF-Net), a backbone based on a yolov5 neural network, in an attempt to solve the aforementioned problem. We first present a global attention mechanism (GAM) attention module to represent strong images of the four-rod targets. Next, a Rep VGG module is introduced to decrease the blur. Our experiments show that the proposed method achieves the desired effect and state-of-the-art detection results, which innovatively improve the accuracy of four-rod target detection to 82.3% and thus make it possible for the thermal imagers to see further and to respond faster and more accurately.

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