IR Viewer

[John McKenna]

http://www.thermalimageviewer.com

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Hmm, looks like you're just getting their same 5 images on your site, not custom images (which would be much more difficult due to the resolution). I could probably put something like this together with more interesting photos as well.

[Mark Roach]

Dominic, let me know when you get this put together. I would be interested.

Mark

[Dominic J. Maricic]

I would need some high resolution or panoramic images from guys along with a normal digital image. Email me what you got and I'll see what I can put together!

[Chuck Evans]

And only simulated thermal images at that.

Last time I looked my imager couldn't see the leaves through the glass window or the tile through the glass shower stall. Perhaps my imager is inferior.

Concept is interesting, but I would want to show real thermal and visible light images of my own. Not some pseudo IR rendering of a visible light image. Also not spending $200 for a website novelty.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

I thought the images were bogus too but didn't want to say that as I don't have a camera to play with! Get me some images and I'll create something that doesn't cost $200. The only problem with showing your own images is getting them to align would be difficult. You'd have to stitch the thermal together first.

[Chuck Evans]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

I thought the images were bogus too but didn't want to say that as I don't have a camera to play with! Get me some images and I'll create something that doesn't cost $200. The only problem with showing your own images is getting them to align would be difficult. You'd have to stitch the thermal together first.

There are a few you can experiment with here http://homecert.com/IRInspection.htm. The paired thermal and visible images are pretty close and the IR resolution is 640x480. These wouldn't be ideal for publishing as my IR lens is a bit narrow for that. Would be better with a 45 degree lens.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

640x480 is great. Set the digital photo to that and and take a few shots from a distance, see if it shows enough detail to be interesting.

[John McKenna]

It would be nice to have real images, and a sample that inspectors could
put on their website (in exchange they could provide a link in the image
to your site, Dominic).

[Dominic J. Maricic]

I've had a few guys send images but they need to be at the same angle and preferably at the same dimensions so they can be overlaid.

[David A. Andersen]

This is what I do...

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Looks good by it's own, but if you look closely the images don't match up which would make it hard to make something larger like their flash animation.

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Looks good by it's own, but if you look closely the images don't match up which would make it hard to make something larger like their flash animation.

Dominic,

All my images are taken from the same exact angle. The problem is, the IR camera has a smaller resolution (320 x 240) verses the digital camera with a larger resolution (800 X 600). When you go to stack these images, it's almost impossible to get them perfectly lined up due to the camera resolutions not being equal to each other.

I made this one, but it's not 100% perfectly lined up. I had to stretch the IR image a bit.

[David A. Andersen]

I just threw this together from photos not intended for this.

As David V stated, They will never match exactly. Even the PIP options in IR cameras are not the same. I'm not sure if it is the shape of the detector arrays or camera focal length.

[David P. Valley]

Dominic,

I've got it figured out.

The guy who is selling the IR Viewer simply took the digital image and changed the color palette to the overlapped image. Then he probably photo-shopped the defect area.

Can you try this (oh mighty one)?