Digital imaging for cultural heritage preservation : analysis, restoration, and reconstruction of ancient artworks /: analysis, restoration, and reconstruction of ancient artworks. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Filippo Stanco, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Gallo.
• Other Names: Stanco, Filippo; Battiato, Sebastiano; Gallo, Giovanni, 1962-
• Contents: Note continued: 12.3.6. Vessel Reconstruction by Matching Axis/Profile Curve Models -- 12.4. Vessel Reconstruction by Sherd Matching: 3D Puzzle Solving -- 12.4.1. The Bayesian Formulation -- 12.4.2. Searching for the Solution -- 12.5. Current Trends in Computational Artifact Reconstruction -- 12.5.1. Going beyond Geometry: Textures and Patterns on Sherd Surfaces -- 12.5.2. Discussion and Future Work -- 12.5.3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- 13. Digital Reconstruction and Mosaicing of Cultural Artifacts / Ioannis Pitas -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. The Three-Step Object Reconstruction Procedure -- 13.2.1. Fragment Preprocessing -- 13.2.2. Matching of Candidate Adjacent Fragments -- 13.2.3. Multi-Fragment Merging -- 13.3. Approaches for Object Reconstruction -- 13.3.1. Torn by Hand Document Reassembly -- 13.3.2.3D Objects Reconstruction -- 13.3.3.2D Puzzles Reassembly -- 13.3.4.2D Objects Reassembly -- 13.4. Automatic Color-Based Reassembly of Fragmented Images and Paintings -- 13.4.1. Discovery of Adjacent Image Fragments -- 13.4.2. Discovery of Matching Contour Segments of Adjacent Image Fragments -- 13.4.3. Contour Alignment of Fragments -- 13.4.4. Overall Image Reassembly -- 13.4.5. Image Reassembly Experiments -- 13.5. Reduced Complexity Image Mosaicing Utilizing Spanning Trees -- 13.5.1. Two-Image Mosaicing -- 13.5.2. Spanning Tree Mosaicing -- 13.5.3. Sub-Graph Spanning Tree Mosaicing -- 13.5.4. Experimental Evaluation -- 13.6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 14. Analysis of Ancient Mosaic Images for Dedicated Applications / Stephane Derrode -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.1.1. Some Historical Facts about Mosaics -- 14.1.2. Mosaics, Images, and Digital Applications -- 14.2. Recent Image-Processing Projects Concerned with Mosaics -- 14.2.1. St. Vitus Cathedral Mosaic Restoration -- 14.2.2. Arabo-Moresque and Islamic Mosaic Pattern Classification -- 14.2.3. Roman Mosaics Indexation -- 14.3. Tesserae Extraction -- 14.4. Tessera-Based Segmentation and Coding -- 14.4.1. Segmentation of Ancient Mosaic Images -- 14.4.2. Tessera-Based Coding and Lossy Compression -- 14.5. Guidelines Estimation for Mosaic Structure Retrieval -- 14.6. Open Issues and Research Directions in Mosaic Image Analysis -- Bibliography -- 15. Digital Reproduction of Ancient Mosaics / Gianpiero Di Blasi -- 15.1. Art and Computer Graphics -- 15.2. History of Ancient Mosaics -- 15.3. The Digital Mosaic Problem -- 15.4. The Crystallization Mosaics -- 15.5. The Ancient Mosaics -- 15.6. The Ancient Mosaics in a 3D Environment -- 15.7. Final Discussions -- 15.7.1. Final Summary -- Bibliography -- 16. Pattern Discovery from Eroded Rock Art / Yang Cai -- 16.1. Introduction -- 16.2. Surface Imaging Methods -- 16.2.1. Laser Scan -- 16.2.2. Pattern Projection -- 16.2.3. Stick Shadow -- 16.2.4. Multiview Imaging -- 16.2.5. Polynomial Texture Maps (PTM) -- 16.3. Pattern Discovery Methods -- 16.3.1. Simulated Lighting -- 16.3.2. Data Transformation -- 16.3.3. Transformation Examples -- 16.3.4. Off-Line Handwriting Recognition -- 16.3.5. Interactive versus Automatic Discovery -- 16.4. From Reconstruction to Knowledge -- 16.5. Interaction Design -- 16.6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- 17. Copyright Protection of Digital Images of Cultural Heritage / Francesca Uccheddu -- 17.1. Introduction -- 17.1.1.A Brief History of Watermarking -- 17.1.2. Watermarking Basics -- 17.1.3. Watermarking Application Scenarios -- 17.2.2D Watermarking -- 17.2.1. Capacity -- 17.2.2. Insertion of Multiple Watermarking Codes -- 17.2.3. Robustness -- 17.2.4. Blind and Non-Blind Techniques -- 17.2.5. Private and Public Techniques -- 17.2.6. Readable and Detectable Watermarks -- 17.2.7. Invertibility and Quasi-Invertibility -- 17.2.8. Reversibility -- 17.2.9. Asymmetry -- 17.2.10. Examples -- 17.3.3D Watermarking -- 17.3.1. Requirements -- 17.3.2.3D Objects Representation -- 17.3.3. State of the Art -- 17.4. Conclusions -- Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 487 pages, [20] pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 702.8/8; Imaging systems; Image processing -- Digital techniques; Cultural property -- Protection; COMPUTERS -- Computer Graphics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems; ART -- Conservation & Preservation; Cultural property -- Protection; Image processing -- Digital techniques; Imaging systems; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1439821747; 9781439821749; 1283311569; 9781283311564
• Related ISBNs: 9781439821732; 1439821739
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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