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Automatic Deep Anomaly Detection using Thermograpy based Convolution Autoencoder Framework

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Naga Prasanthi Yerneni
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L. Sainath
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V. S. Ghali *
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Sk. Aashik
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G. T. Vesala
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V. Dhanunjana Chari
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Fei Wang
DOI:10.1007/s10921-026-01360-8delete
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Metals and composite structures are widely used in various industries due to their high mechanical strength and durability. However, defects generated during the manufacturing and operating phase limit their future usefulness and are recommended through non-invasive inspection. Quadratic frequency-modulated thermography (QFMT) is a non-destructive testing technique applicable to many materials due to its high-energy deposition at lower frequencies for enhanced defect signatures. The recent past in QFMT is advanced with machine learning and deep learning-based techniques. In contrast, the highly class-imbalanced and scarce nature of thermal profiles has recently gained interest in anomaly detection models. A stacked denoising convolution autoencoder (SDCAE) driven Local Outlier Factor (LOF) is proposed in the present article to identify defects in mild steel and carbon fiber reinforced polymer specimens inspected by QFMT. Deep features extracted from the temporal thermal profiles using pre-trained SDCAE are further fed to LOF for automatic defect detection. A quantitative comparison with recently introduced deep anomaly detection models and other autoencoder models for performance analysis strengthens the suitability of proposed method for automatic defect detection.
Keywords:
Infrared thermography
Mild steel
CFRP
Stacked denoising convolution autoencoder
Local outlier factor
Quadratic frequency modulated thermography

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