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During the past 10 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been attractive in this area due to their outstanding ability in complex data analysis tasks. Most current AI-based studies on damage characterisation in this field focus on damage segmentation and depth measurement, which also faces the bottleneck of lacking adequate experimental data for model training. This paper proposes a new framework to understand the relationship between Barely Visible Impact Damage features occurring in typical CFRP laminates to their corresponding controlled drop-test impact energy using a Deep Learning approach. A parametric study consisting of one hundred CFRP laminates with known material specification and identical geometric\u00a0dimensions were subjected to drop-impact tests using five different impact energy levels. Then Pulsed Thermography was adopted to reveal the subsurface impact damage in these specimens and recorded damage patterns in temporal sequences of thermal images. A convolutional neural network was then employed to train models that aim to classify captured thermal photos into different groups according to their corresponding impact energy levels. Testing results of models trained from different time windows and lengths were evaluated, and the best classification accuracy of 99.75% was achieved. 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