TY - CONF A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Thiel, Erik A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Karagianni, Christina A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Mayr, G. A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. T1 - A comparison of different techniques for photothermal super resolution image reconstruction N2 - The separation of two closely located defects in fields of Thermographic NDE is very challenging. The diffusive nature of thermal waves leads to a fundamental limitation in spatial resolution. Therefore, super resolution image reconstruction can be used. A new concerted ansatz based on spatially structured heating and joint sparsity of the signal ensemble allows an improved reconstruction of closely located defects. This new technique has also been studied using 1D laser arrays in active thermography. The post-processing can be roughly described by two steps: 1. Finding a sparse basis representation using a reconstruction algorithm such as the Fourier transform, 2. Application of an iterative joint sparsity (IJOSP) method to the firstly reconstructed data. For this reason, different methods in post-processing can be compared using the same measured data set. The focus in this work was the variation of reconstruction algorithms in step 1 and its influence on the results from step 2. More precise, the measured thermal waves can be transformed to virtual (ultrasound) waves that can be processed by applying ultrasound reconstruction algorithms and finally the super resolution algorithm. Otherwise, it is also possible to make use of a Fourier transform with a subsequent super resolution routine. These super resolution thermographic image reconstruction techniques in post-processing are discussed and evaluated regarding performance, accuracy and repeatability. T2 - 20-th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena CY - Moscow, Russia DA - 07.07.2019 KW - Super resolution KW - Virtual wave KW - Laser thermography KW - 1d laser KW - Joint sparsity KW - Laser array KW - VCSEL array KW - High-power laser KW - Fourier transform KW - Dimension reduction PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48592 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Ziegler, Mathias A1 - Thiel, Erik A1 - Hirsch, Philipp Daniel A1 - Karagianni, Christina A1 - Burgholzer, P. A1 - Mayr, G. A1 - Jung, P. A1 - Caire, G. T1 - Photothermal super resolution imaging: a comparison of different reconstruction techniques N2 - The diffusive nature of heat propagation complicates the separation of two closely spaced defects. This results in a fundamental limitation in spatial resolution. Therefore, super resolution (SR) image reconstruction can be used. SR processing techniques based on spatially structured heating and joint sparsity of the signal ensemble allows for an improved reconstruction of closely spaced defects. This new technique has been studied using a 1D laser array with randomly chosen illumination pattern. This paper presents the results after applying SR algorithms such as the iterative joint sparsity (IJOSP) algorithm, to our processed measurement data. Two different data processing strategies are evaluated and discussed regarding their influence on the reconstruction goodness as well as their complexity. Moreover, the degradation of the SR reconstruction by the choice of regularization parameters in data processing is discussed. The application of both SR techniques that are evaluated in this paper results in a spatial resolution enhancement of approximately a factor of four which leads to a better separation of two closely spaced defects. The fundamental difference between both SR techniques is their complexity. T2 - 46th Annual Review of Profress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation CY - Portland, OR, USA DA - 14.07.2019 KW - Super resolution KW - Virtual wave KW - Laser thermography KW - 1d laser KW - Joint sparsity KW - Laser array KW - VCSEL array KW - High-power laser KW - Fourier transform KW - Dimension reduction PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48579 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -