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Digital cultural heritage imaging via osmosis filtering

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Calatroni, L 
Daffara, C 

Abstract

In Cultural Heritage (CH) imaging, data acquired within different spectral regions are often used to inspect surface and sub-surface features. Due to the experimental setup, these images may suffer from intensity inhomogeneities, which may prevent conservators from distinguishing the physical properties of the object under restoration. Furthermore, in multi-modal imaging, the transfer of information between one modality to another is often used to integrate image contents. In this paper, we apply the image osmosis model proposed in [4, 10, 12] to solve correct these problems arising when diagnostic CH imaging techniques based on reflectance, emission and fluorescence mode in the optical and thermal range are used. For an efficient computation, we use stable operator splitting techniques to solve the discretised model. We test our methods on real artwork datasets: the thermal measurements of the mural painting “Monocromo” by Leonardo Da Vinci, the UV-VIS-IR imaging of an ancient Russian icon and the Archimedes Palimpsest dataset.

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Keywords

Osmosis filtering, Operator splitting, Thermal-Quasi Reflectography, UV-IR imaging, Multi-modal imaging, Cultural Heritage

Journal Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

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Journal ISSN

0302-9743
1611-3349

Volume Title

10884 LNCS

Publisher

Springer Nature
Sponsorship
EPSRC (1513548)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L016516/1)