Advances in Signal Processing for Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials

Signal extraction and conditionning.- 1 Intelligent Signal processing.- 2 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) in nondestructive inspection.- 3 Compensation of ultrasonic transducers response by adapting excitation signals, application to defects evaluation.- 4 Statistical method to evaluate the amplitude of cyclical noisy signal in IR thermography.- 5 Quasi frequency diversity processing of ultrasonic signals — A review.- On algorithm formulations.- 6 Specific features of NDT data and processing algorithms: New remedies to old ills.- 7 Edge detectors using greco-latin squares.- 8 Digital image processing in holographic Nondestructive testing (HNDT).- 9 Design of morphological processors for ultrasonic NDE of Materials — A review.- 10 Materials NDE by non linear filtering applying heat transfer models.- 11 The influence of image digitisation and calibration of a scanning system upon weld inspection.- 12 New developments in the detection of defects by photothermal thermography.- Direct and inverse problems.- 13 Advances in signal inversion with applications to infrared thermography (Keynote lecture).- 14 Use of finite-difference method for predicting propagation of ultrasonic waves in solids (abstract only).- Signal processing in thermal NDE.- 15 Inverse scattering of pulsed thermal waves.- 16 Informative parameters and noise in transient thermal NDT.- 17 On methods for shape correction and reconstruction in thermographic NDE.- Artificial Intelligence.- 18 Use of neural networks and expert systems for evaluation.- 19 Applications of artificial intelligence in nondestructive evaluation.- 20 Fuzzy min-max neural network based classification of underwater layered media due to attenuation effects.- 21 Wavelet transform based transient detection.- Applications toemerging NDE techniques.- 22 The role of modeling in the determination of probability of detection.- 23 Early detection by stimulated infrared thermography. Comparison with ultrasonics and holo/shearography.- 24 Combination of FEM and HI for NDE purposes.- 25 Processing suited to in-the-field applications of NDT.- 26 Imaging of magnetic properties using photothermal techniques in microwave resonance (abstract only).- Applications to established NDE techniques.- 27 Limited view computed tomography in nuclear inspection (abstract only).- 28 Development of vision tools for welding applications.- 29 A novel technique for defects classification from their ultrasonic pulse echoes.- 30 Characterization of advanced composite materials by X-Ray Compton scattering.- 31 Steel sheet surface quality monitoring by multiple spectral reflectance signal processing.- Hardware implementations.- 32 Integrated hardware implementations for digital systems (abstract only).- 33 Parallelization of the synthetic aperture focusing technique for ultrasonic testing.- 34 Applications of high resolution inversion to ultrasonic imaging of multi-layered structures.- Special presentations.- 35 The European project TRAPPIST: transfer, processing and interpretation of 3D NDT data in a standard environment (panel discussion).- 36 Optics and Information Processing at National Optics Institute: a good match for NDE (banquet abstract only).- 37 Non-invasive measurement of temperature changes in tethered flying blowflies by thermal imaging.- 38 Substituting statistical for physical decomposition: are there applications for parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) in NDE?.- List of participants.