Thermal cameras are used in numerous computer vision applications, such as human detection and scene understanding. However, the cost of high quality and high resolution thermal sensors is often a limiting factor. Conversely, high resolution visual spectrum cameras are readily available and generally inexpensive. Herein, we explore the creation of higher quality upsampled thermal imagery using a high resolution visual spectrum camera and Markov random fields theory. This paper also presents a discussion of the tradeoffs from this approach and the effects of upsampling, both from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Our results demonstrate the successful application of this approach for human detection and the accurate propagation of thermal measurements within images for more general tasks like scene understanding. A tradeoff analysis of the costs related to performance as the resolution of the thermal camera decreases are also provided.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-3363 |
| Date | 06 May 2017 |
| Creators | Smith, Ryan Elliott |
| Publisher | Scholars Junction |
| Source Sets | Mississippi State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
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