@article{ordonezmuller_2016, abstract = {Infrared thermography is a widely used technique to measure and portray the surface temperature of an object in form of thermal images. Two dimensional images, however, have some inherent limitations with regard to the fidelity with which they can depict the surface temperature of a three dimensional object. In the past two decades, there have been several works describing different techniques to generate 3D models textured with thermal information using various combinations of sensors in order to address some of these limitations. Most of these approaches generate 3D thermograms of an object from a single perspective with bulky measurement systems and therefore do not address problems that arise when scanning objects in a continuous manner from multiple perspectives. But reductions in cost, size and weight of infrared and depth-sensing cameras as well as a significant increase in computational power of personal computers have enabled the development of low cost, handheld, real-time 3D thermal imaging systems. This article elaborates through a series of experiments on the main factors that affect the real-time generation of high fidelity 3D thermograms with such a system and demonstrates how taking this factors into consideration significantly improves the appearance and fidelity of the generated 3D thermogram. Most of the insight gained in this article can be transferred to 3D thermal imaging systems based on other combination of sensors.}, author = {Ordonez Müller, Antonio and Kroll, A.}, doi = {10.1109/JSEN.2016.2621166}, interhash = {649a5600af4e137b481300147e8d2f18}, intrahash = {8a1c165cacf1b6646859f1c87b2449ee}, journal = {IEEE Sensors Journal}, language = {English}, month = {February}, number = 3, owner = {duerrbaum}, pages = {774-783}, title = {Generating High Fidelity 3D Thermograms with a Handheld Real-time Thermal Imaging System}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7676356/}, volume = 17, year = 2017 }