IMAGE PROCESSING USED FOR THERMOGRAPHIC RESPONSE ASSESSMENT FROM THE HAND-FINGERS COMPOSITE STRUCTURE

Abstract

This paper analyzed thermo-graphic images of the hand-finger complex structure by image processing methods. Thermo-graphic images of the system are taken by a FLIR infrared camera type. Thermo-graphic images are taken in different situations of induced effort in the fingers and hand and they are processed to highlight more dimensional features and especially those related to temperature distribution on the surface of the hand-fingers structure. Basic procedures for image processing to find the edges or contour mapping highlighted the more obvious areas where temperature variations in thermo-graphic images were assimilated with the same level of “false color”. Such analysis can punctual and zonal analyses these variations in relation to the entire outer surface of the assembly hand-fingers.