Contribution of the Temperature of the Objects to the Problem of Thermal Imaging Focusing
This addresses a domain-specific issue for thermal imaging practitioners, but it appears incremental as it adds temperature as a factor without major methodological breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of focusing in thermal imaging by identifying that the temperature of objects or the scene significantly affects focusing, in addition to traditional factors like depth of field, aperture, and distance.
When focusing an image, depth of field, aperture and distance from the camera to the object, must be taking into account, both, in visible and in infrared spectrum. Our experiments reveal that in addition, the focusing problem in thermal spectrum is also hardly dependent of the temperature of the object itself (and/or the scene).