In the last years, Active Thermography has obtained great acceptance as a nondestructive inspection method (NDE) to assess materials

integrity, particularly in the aerospace industry plenty of work has been done to evaluate flight control surfaces, such as rudders and flaps shortcite{genest2007comparison}. However, some issues arise when it comes to selecting suitable methods to stimulate an inspected surface, to enhance thermal images, and to determine which infrared camera can yield to better quality images shortcite{usamentiaga2013quantitative}. That is why most of the recent studies focus on finding pros and cons among either post-processing methods or active thermography methods []. These studies use commonly the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to judge quantitatively aspects such as, the performance of infrared cameras to produce images that allow detectability of a broad range of defects depths shortcite{pickering2007evaluation}, and the defect visibility after applying enhancement techniques to thermogram sequences. Even though SNR is a well-founded alternative to optimize pulsed stimulated thermography, it exhibits some drawbacks that can lead to data misinterpretations. As a matter of fact, shortcite{balageas2012defense} highlighted a problem still present in NDE methods which is, the definition of a flawless region for SNR computation, and expressed the need of a self-referencing method to find it. Another common problem that drastically effects on SNR is non-uniform heating, the sound area location can be too cold not only with respect to a defective area, but also with respect to a sound area producing high thermal contrast in both cases, having as a consequence high SNR values, which should be only associated with defective zones shortcite{ibarra2009comparative}. Furthermore, SNR has been traditionally used for local evaluation of defect detectability, which means that weve got to use some prior knowledge of the defects positions what is not available in real inspected specimens. Most of previous works have dealt with the problematic situation already mentioned by defining the sound region as an area that encompasses or is next to the defect region under inspection shortcite{usamentiaga2013quantitative}, shortcite{ibarra2009comparative}, shortcite{genest2007comparison}. Although this methodology does make SNR more resilient to uneven heating, it continues sticking to the local approach that can be ineffective when studying materials in uncontrolled circumstances. In addition to that the number of pixels that should be included in the sound area to obtain the better results is uncertain and varies depending on the material, which represents a source of error and uncertainty in SNR computation. Considering these facts, we have developed a new methodology to compute SNR, which not only provide a complete SNR map no matter the sound area choice, but also a more resilient IQM with respect to window size variations than conventional methods. In addition to that we have develop a visual perception index, called IRIQI, that allows us to