“…Recently, some emerging techniques have been developed in order to solve the mechanism issue in the industrial applications, like infrared thermography (IRT). IRT has many advantages including non-contact, greater inspection speed, higher resolution and sensitivity, detectability of inner defects due to heat conduction, and real-time measurements over a large detection area [3][4][5]. In addition, considering the large number of blades and short inspection time for the evaluation of the blade surface fatigue cracks, the inspection speed and detection accuracy are the factors that should be prioritized.…”