Ladies and Gentlemen,

We cordially welcome our Distinguished Participants to the 16th Conference "Infrared Thermography and Thermometry - TTP." For over 30 years, the TTP Conference has brought together thermography researchers and practitioners from various fields. Recent years have seen dynamic development in detector technology, hardware, and software for infrared techniques.

We are delighted to note that after many years of preparation, Polish photon infrared detector arrays using superlattice technology have emerged, developed independently at two leading implementation and research centers.

Microbolometer technology is developing rapidly, achieving increasingly higher sensitivities and array sizes while reducing the size of a single detector. Using modern infrared sensors, it is possible to overcome the detection barrier limited by the NETD parameter. Measuring temperature changes at the level of 1 mK is already possible thanks to advanced processing techniques. The limit on the maximum frequency of temperature changes recorded by the system is being raised. All this is driving an almost exponential growth in new, innovative applications of infrared thermography.

Enormous progress can be seen in the processing of infrared radiation signals. The answer to costly matrix systems is single-pixel cameras. Some might say this is nothing new, as single-detector scanners were developed long ago, and even forgotten that until recently they were widely used. This is true, but today's single-pixel systems are a completely new technology that applies optical orthogonal transformation methods, such as the Hadamard mask, compressive sensing methods, and artificial intelligence. This allows for the implementation of very cheap and energy-efficient systems that do not require image transmission over high-bandwidth channels. Let's also add biomedical applications of thermography, including veterinary applications, screening diagnostics, and non-destructive tissue testing that takes into account non-Fourier effects of heat transfer. We will discuss these and other aspects of modern thermography at this year's conference.

The TTP conference would not exist without You, the Distinguished Participants and Listeners, academics and industry workers, engineers and practitioners, doctoral candidates and students. Thank You for the participation and for preparing and presenting interesting papers. We would like to thank the hardware and software Exhibitors for the substantive presentation of their offerings. We thank the university Authorities, and above all, the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, for their support. We wish You a pleasant stay in Łódź and at the Lodz University of Technology, establishing contacts and collaborations, and fruitful discussions.

On behalf of the organizers
Bogusław Więcek