Physically-based Thermal Simulation of Large Scenes for Infrared Imaging

B. Kottler, E. Burkard, D. Bulatov, L. Haraké

2019

Abstract

Rendering large scenes in the thermal infrared spectrum requires the knowledge of the surface temperature distribution. We developed a workflow starting from raw airborne sensor data yielding to a physically-based thermal simulation, which can be used for rendering in the infrared spectrum. The workflow consists of four steps: material classification, mesh generation, material parameter assignment, and thermal simulation. This paper concerns the heat transfer simulation of large scenes. Our thermal model includes the heat transfer types radiation, convection, and conduction in three dimensions within the object and with its environment, i.e. sun and sky in particular. We show that our model can be solved by finite volume method and it shows good agreement with experimental data of the CUBI object. We demonstrate our workflow for sensor data from the City of Melville and produce reasonable results compared to infrared sensor data. For the large scene, the temperature simulation finished in appropriate time of 252 sec. for five day-night cycles.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kottler B., Burkard E., Bulatov D. and Haraké L. (2019). Physically-based Thermal Simulation of Large Scenes for Infrared Imaging. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 1: GRAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-354-4, SciTePress, pages 53-64. DOI: 10.5220/0007351400530064

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp19,
author={B. Kottler and E. Burkard and D. Bulatov and L. Haraké},
title={Physically-based Thermal Simulation of Large Scenes for Infrared Imaging},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 1: GRAPP},
year={2019},
pages={53-64},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007351400530064},
isbn={978-989-758-354-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 1: GRAPP
TI - Physically-based Thermal Simulation of Large Scenes for Infrared Imaging
SN - 978-989-758-354-4
AU - Kottler B.
AU - Burkard E.
AU - Bulatov D.
AU - Haraké L.
PY - 2019
SP - 53
EP - 64
DO - 10.5220/0007351400530064
PB - SciTePress