Synthetic Thermal Image Generation Using Heat Transfer Modeling

Thermal image is an image that shows the thermal or temperature properties of an object. Thermal image of an object is obtained from a thermal infrared camera. This camera works by employing radiative heat transfer principles and uses sensors to capture the radiated energy of an object. Thermal image of an object in the real world which is captured by a thermal camera is a real thermal image of that object. But sometimes there is a situation in which it is necessary to simulate a real situation in order to generate synthetic thermal image, for example in estimating the temperature distribution or in understanding the thermal behaviour of a particular object. This paper demonstrates the technique to generate the synthetic thermal images, all which is based on image processing paradigm.