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The preliminary fault features of the abnormally hot components are extracted by the speeded-up robust features algorithm (SURF). In order to extract the ultimate fault features, the preliminary fault features are clustered into K clusters by K-means and substituted into the bag-of-features model (BOF) to generate a bag-of-SURF-feature vector (BOSF) for each image. Then, all of the BOSF vectors are fed into SVM to train the fault classification model. Finally, extensive experiments are conducted on two homemade thermal image datasets of circuit board faults. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in extracting the thermal fault features of components and reducing misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. 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