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16th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology & Applications 2021

Name: 16th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology & Applications 2021
Start: 2021-10-26T00:00:00
End: 2021-10-28T00:00:00

26 - 28 October 2021

Online

Welcome from
the chairs

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

regretfully, the AITA Organizing Committee has made the decision to postpone the face to face conference in Venice due to the persisting problems caused by the pandemic. However, we welcome your contributions for this online edition that is intended to keep the flame of the AITA Conference alive. We are looking forward to hearing from you about the latest scientific advances and technological applications in the Infrared bands.

The AITA Conference 2021 will be held online

from 26/10/2021 to 28/10/2021

and it will be focused on the following topics, but not limited to:

Advanced technology and materials
Smart and fiber-optic sensors
Thermo-fluid dynamics and energy
Biomedical applications
Environmental monitoring
Aerospace and industrial applications
Nanophotonics and Nanotechnologies
Astronomy and Earth observation

Non-destructive testing and evaluation
Systems and applications for the cultural heritage
Image processing and data analysis
Near-, mid-, and far-infrared systems
Vibrational spectroscopies
Terahertz imaging and systems
Hyperspectral and multispectral imaging
UAV Drones infrared systems

The Proceedings of the Workshop will consist of the extended abstracts of all the papers, including those selected for the Special Issue, and will be published electronically in a dedicated issue of MDPI Engineering Proceedings; each extended abstract will be provided with a digital object identifier (DOI) and will be submitted to relevant indexing databases.

Best selected contributions will be proposed to submit a full-length article to a Special Issue of Infrared Physics & Technology, which in the past has already published selected papers of the conference. Articles will undergo the reviewing process of the Journal.

AITA 2021 Conference is organized by:

Meet the Event Chairs

Dr. Paolo Bison

National Research Council of Italy – Construction Technologies Institute (CNR-ITC), Padova, Italy (www.itc.cnr.it)

Dr. Davide Moroni

National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR-ISTI), Pisa, Italy www.isti.cnr.it

Dr. Giovanni Ferrarini

National Research Council of Italy –- Construction Technologies Institute (CNR-ITC), Padova, Italy (www.itc.cnr.it)

Dr. Gianluca Cadelano

National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), Padova, Italy (www.isac.cnr.it)

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadlineSep 08, 2021
Abstract acceptance notificationSep 30, 2021
Registration end dateOct 25, 2021
Early bird registration deadlineSep 08, 2021
Regular registration deadlineOct 25, 2021
Late registration deadlineOct 13, 2021

Session Topics

Explore more details

The list of accepted abstracts is online. Click here to see the list of contributions.

Sponsors and Partners

Sponsor

Patronage

Final Programme

AITA 2021 Marathon

In case you missed something, you have another chance to see all AITA 2021 presentations. A continuous broadcast of all presentations will start one last time. Use the same Zoom link to connect to the streaming of pre-recorded sessions with the following schedule.

Run 1 from 18:00 (28th October) to 02:00 h CEST (29th October)
Run 2 from 02:00 to 10:00 h CEST (29th October)
Run 3 from 10:00 to 18:00 h CEST (29th October)

Each session will start thrice at different times:

Session 1 - Under 35 Best paper award: 18:00 h CEST (28th October) - 02:00 h CEST (29th October) - 10:00 h CEST (29th October)
Session 2 - NDT: 20:11 h CEST (28th October) - 04:11 h CEST (29th October) - 12:11 h CEST (29th October)
Session 3- Remote sensing and environmental monitoring: 21:49 h CEST (28th October) - 05:49 h CEST (29th October) - 13:49 h CEST (29th October)
Session 4- Materials: 22:47 h CEST (28th October) - 06:47 h CEST (29th October) - 14:47 h CEST (29th October)
Session 5- Bio-Medicals: 00:05 h CEST (29th October) - 08:05 h CEST (29th October) - 16:05 h CEST (29th October)
Session 6- Image processing: 01:04 h CEST (29th October) - 09:04 h CEST (29th October) - 17:04 h CEST (29th October)

Thanks for your participation, and we look forward to meeting you (this time in person) at the next edition of AITA in 2023 in Venice.

The Conference will be held online between 26th October and 28th October 2021. Each day, the Conference will be divided in a pre-recorded session and a live session. The daily pre-recorded session presentations will be streamed thrice to accommodate the different time zones. Participants can freely choose a replay (run 1, run 2, or run 3) at the most convenient streaming time. All times are listed in Rome Time (CEST, UTC+2).

Each day of the Conference, a live panel discussion will take place at 13:30 CEST (20:30 Japan Standard Time, 07:30 Eastern Daylight Time) , including keynotes, question and answers (Q&A), sponsor presentations. Authors are expected to answer to question about their presentation on the same day of the pre-recorded streaming. At the end of the live panel discussion, the sponsor rooms will be opened.

DAY 1: Session 1 (Under 35 Best Paper Award)

run 1 from 18:00 to 22:00 h CEST (25th October)
run 2 from 00:00 to 04:00 h CEST (26th October)
run 3 from 09:00 to 13:00 h CEST (26th October)
live plenary session from 13:30 to 15:00 h CEST (26th October): Opening Ceremony, Sponsors presentations, Q&A Session 1 (Under 35 Best Paper Award)

DAY 2: Sessions 2 and 3 (NDT, Remote sensing and environmental monitoring)

run 1 from 18:00 to 22:00 h CEST (26th October)
run 2 from 00:00 to 04:00 h CEST (27th October)
run 3 from 09:00 to 13:00 h CEST (27th October)
live plenary session from 13:30 to 15:00 h CEST (27th October): Plenary Lecture, Patronage, Q&A Sessions 2 and 3 (NDT, Remote sensing and environmental monitoring)

DAY 3: Sessions 4,5, and 6 (Materials, Bio-Medical, Image Processing)

run 1 from 18:00 to 22:00 h CEST (27th October)
run 2 from 00:00 to 04:00 h CEST (28th October)
run 3 from 09:00 to 13:00 h CEST (28th October)
live plenary session from 13:30 to 15:00 h CEST (28th October): Under 35 Best Paper Award Ceremony, Q&A Sessions 4,5, and 6 (Materials, Bio-Medical, Image Processing), Final Ceremony

Plenary lecture

An online live plenary lecture will be held by Professor Jean-Christophe Batsale. The title of the plenary lecture is Multispectral and multiscale infrared imaging for the study of heat and mass transfer in heterogeneous media.

Plenary lecture abstract

Generally the IR images are related to the transient temperature field related to the emission of a black surface in response to an external or internal heating (active IR thermography). The first applications were devoted to the so called thermal Non-Destructive Evaluation methods with a uniform flash or periodic front face heating for the detection of delaminations in composite multilayered samples. The main assumption was then to consider a thin sample and 1D transient heat diffusion through the sample (transverse diffusion). With simplified assumptions related to the transverse diffusion the in-plane diffusion and transport phenomena can be also considered. A general equation can be applied in order to balance the heat transfer at the pixel scale or between groups of pixels in order to estimate several fields of thermophysical properties (heterogeneous field of in-plane diffusivity, flow distributions, source terms).

Pre-recorded sessions programme

Session 1 – Under 35 Best Paper Award – Virtual Cochairs Paolo Bison and Monica Volinia
Jue Hu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra, Carlo Santulli, Xavier Maldague: 3D non-destructive inspection using novel infrared-terahertz fusion approaches
Iván Garrido, Eva Barreira, Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida, Susana Lagüela: Building facade protection using spatial and temporal Deep Learning models applied to thermographic data. Laboratory tests
Joel Johnson, Janice Mani, Mani Naiker: Infrared spectroscopy for the quality assessment of Habanero chilli: a proof-of-concept study
Sandra Pozzer, Marcos de Souza, Bata Hena, Reza Rezayiye, Setayesh Hesam, Fernando Lopez, Xavier Maldague: Defects segmentation in concrete structures combining registered infrared and visible images: a comparative experimental study
Ryohei Fujita, Kotaro Katsukura, Hosei Nagano: Micro-scale Fatigue Damage Assessment of CFRP Laminates Using Lock-in Thermography
Jan Verstockt, Simon Verspeek, Filip Thiessen, Thierry Tondu, Wiebren Tjalma, Lieve Brochez, Gunther Steenackers: Dynamic Infrared Thermography (DIRT) in biomedical applications: DIEP flap breast reconstruction and skin cancer
David Perpetuini, Andrea Di Credico, Chiara Filippini, Pascal Izzicupo, Daniela Cardone, Piero Chiacchiaretta, Barbara Ghinassi, Angela Di Baldassarre, Arcangelo Merla: Is it possible to estimate average heart rate from facial thermal imaging?
Oscar Papini, Marco Reggiannini, Gabriele Pieri: SST Image Processing for Mesoscale Patterns Identification
Giuseppe Dell'Avvocato, Davide Palumbo, Maria Palmieri, Umberto Galietti: Evaluation of effectiveness of heat treatments in boron steel by laser thermography

Session 2 – NDT – Virtual Cochairs Giovanni Ferrarini and Takahide Sakagami
Wu zhuoqiao, Tao ning: Prediction of the GFRP flat-bottom hole depth in the cooling process of square-heating thermography
Takuya Ishizaki, Ai Ueno, Hosei Nagano: Measurement of Line Distribution of Thermal Contact Resistance Using Microscopic Lock-in Thermography
Michal Švantner, Lukas Muzika, Alexey Moskovchenko, Celeste Pereira, Shumit Das: Repeatability study of flash-pulse thermographic inspection of CFRP samples
Daiki Shiozawa, Masaki Uchida, Yuki Ogawa, Takahide Sakagami, Shiro Kubo: 4D reconstruction of leaked gas cloud based on computed tomography processing of multiple optical paths infrared measurement
Paolo Bison, Gianluca Cadelano, Giovanni Ferrarini, Mario Girotto, Maurizio Gomez Serito, Fabio Peron, Monica Volinia: Evalution of moisture diffusion by IR thermography
Jaime Gonzalez, Guillermo Garcia-Torales, Marija Strojnik: Numerical analysis of microlens array to the mid-IR range

Session 3 - Remote sensing and environmental monitoring – Virtual Cochairs Valentina Raimondi and Xavier Maldague
Juan Forero-Ramirez, Bryan Garcia, Hermes Tenorio-Tamayo, Andrés Restrepo-Girón, Humberto Loaiza-Correa, Asfur Barandica-López, José Buitrago-Molina, Sandra Nope-Rodriguez: Detection of legbreaker antipersonnel landmines by analysis of aerial thermographic images of the soil
Diksha Rana, Maya Kumari, Rina Kumari: Quantitative estimation of Land Surface Temperature and its relationship with Land Use/Cover around Sonipat District, Haryana, India
Valentina Raimondi, Luigi Acampora, Massimo Baldi, Dirk Berndt, Tiziano Bianchi, Donato Borrelli, Chiara Corti, Francesco Corti, Marco Corti, Nick Cox, Ulrike Dauderstädt, Peter Dürr, Alberto Fruchi, Sara Francés González, Donatella Guzzi, Detlef Kunze, Demetrio Labate, Nicolas Lamquin, Cinzia Lastri, Enrico Magli, Vanni Nardino, Christophe Pache, Lorenzo Palombi, Giuseppe Pilato, Alexandre Pollini, Enrico Suetta, Dario Taddei, Davide Taricco, Diego Valsesia, Michael Wagner: Designing a compressive sensing demonstrator of an Earth Observation payload in the visible and medium infrared: instrumental concept and main features
Cinzia Lastri, Gabriele Amato, Massimo Baldi, Tiziano Bianchi, Fabrizia Buongiorno, Chiara Corti, Francesco Corti, Marco Corti, Enrico Franci, Donatella Guzzi, Enrico Magli, Vanni Nardino, Lorenzo Palombi, Tiziana Scopa, Malvina Silvestri, Vito Romaniello, Diego Valsesia, Valentina Raimondi: SISSI project: a feasibility study for a super resolved compressive sensing multispectral imager in the medium infrared
Paula Andrés-Anaya, María Sánchez-Aparicio, Susana del Pozo, Susana Lagüela: Correlation of Land Surface Temperature with IR Albedo for the analysis of Urban Heat Island

Session 4 – Materials - Virtual Cochairs Gianluca Cadelano and Gunther Steenackers
Shunsuke Kishigami, Yuki Matsumoto, Yuki Ogawa, Yoshiaki Mizokami, Daiki Shiozawa, Takahide Sakagami, Masahiro Hayashi, Noriyasu Arima: Quantitative deterioration evaluation of heavy-duty anticorrosion coating by near-infrared spectral characteristics
Lukas Muzika, Michal Svantner, Milan Honner, Sarka Houdkova: Laser scanning thermography for coating thickness inspection
Paolo Bison, Stefano Boldrini, Federico Cernuschi, Alessia Famengo: Laser Flash experiment on semitransparent optically thin sample
Hui Sun, Ning Tao, Sen Wang, HenShun Luan, Xue Yang, Cunlin Zhang, Jiangang Sun: Measurement of thermal diffusivity by pulse thermography under non-uniform heating
Yuki Ogawa, Taiju Horita, Naoki Iwatani, Kota Kadoi, Daiki Shiozawa, Takahide Sakagami: Evaluation of Fatigue Strength Based on Dissipated Energy for Laser Welds
Gabriele Inglese: Identification of the Thermal Conductance of a hidden barrier from outer thermal data
Ritchie Heirmans, Olivier De Moor, Simon Verspeek, Sander De Vrieze, Bart Ribbens, Myriam Vanneste, Gunther Steenackers: Improving quality inspection of textiles by an augmented RGB-IR-HS-AI approach.

Session 5 – Bio-medical - Virtual Cochairs Mario D’Acunto and Marjia Stroinjk
Eva Barreira, Ricardo Almeida, Maria Lurdes Simões, Tiago Sousa: Comparison of two IR cameras for assessing body temperature
Kiran Sankar Maiti, Susmita Roy, Renée Lampe, Alexander Apolonski: Detection of disease specific volatile organic compounds using infrared spectroscopy
Michal Švantner, Vladislav Lang, Tomas Kohlschutter, Jiri Skala, Milan Honner, Lukas Muzika, Eliska Kosova: Study on human temperature measurement by infrared thermography
Bardia Yousefi, Michelle Hershman, Henrique Fernandes, Xavier Maldague: Concentrated Thermomics for Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Mario D’Acunto: Raman Spectroscopy and oncology. Multivariate Statistics methods for cancer grading

Session 6 - Image processing - Virtual Cochairs Davide Moroni and Antoni Rogalski
Wei Hng Lim, Stefano Sfarra, Yuan Yao: A Physics-informed Neural Network Method for Defect Identification in Polymer Composites Based on Pulsed Thermography
Stefano Sfarra, Gianfranco Gargiulo, Mohammed Omar: Learning thermographic models for optimal image processing of decorated surfaces
Nelson Pech-May, Mathias Ziegler: Detection of surface breaking cracks using flying line laser thermography: A Canny based algorithm
Qiang Fang, Clemente Ibarra‐Castanedo, Xavier Maldague: University Laval infrared thermography databases for deep learning multiple types of defect detections training

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