Engineering structures and infrastructure continue to be used despite approaching or having
reached their design lifetime. While contact-based measurement techniques are challenging …

RGB-thermal salient object detection (RGB-T SOD) has unique advantages in terms of
handling challenging scenes with cluttered backgrounds, low illumination, and low contrast …

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials have been widely used in aerospace and
other fields because of their excellent properties such as high temperature resistance and …

Thermal wave imaging uses the temporal temperature distribution over the object's surface
for subsurface analysis. However, the noise generated during experimentation corrupts this …

Recent advancements of nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) with machine
learning, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things as key enablers in parallel with …

InfraRed Thermography (IRT) is one of the widely used Non-destructive Testing and
Evaluation (NDT&E) method for characterization of fiber reinforced polymers. Among verity …

This paper describes detection of cracks in ceramic tableware using a portable digital
holographic camera working on the principle of double-exposure digital holographic …

In insulated cladding components, simultaneously detecting and distinguishing surface
defects on the insulation layer, hidden defects in the insulation layer, and surface defects on …

The estimation of defects positioning occurring in the interface between different materials is
performed by using an artificial neural network modeled as an inverse heat conduction …

Computational Intelligence can be defined as a collection of methods that solve problems by
means of intelligence, reasoning, and tolerance to imprecision. In this thesis, Computational …