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Research Article

Introduction of the combination of thermal fundamentals and Deep Learning for the automatic thermographic inspection of thermal bridges and water-related problems in infrastructures

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Pages 231-255 | Received 28 Jul 2021, Accepted 28 Mar 2022, Published online: 18 Apr 2022

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