Heritage preservation. A computational approach

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This book presents a unique guide to heritage preservation problems and the corresponding state-of-the-art digital techniques to achieve their plausible solutions. It covers various methods, ranging from data acquisition and digital imaging to computational methods for reconstructing the original (pre-damaged) appearance of heritage artefacts. The case studies presented here are mostly drawn from India's tangible  Read more...

Abstract: This book presents a unique guide to heritage preservation problems and the corresponding state-of-the-art digital techniques to achieve their plausible solutions. It covers various methods, ranging from data acquisition and digital imaging to computational methods for reconstructing the original (pre-damaged) appearance of heritage artefacts. The case studies presented here are mostly drawn from India's tangible and non-tangible heritage, which is very rich and multi-dimensional. The contributing authors have been working in their respective fields for years and present their methods so lucidly that they can be easily reproduced and implemented by general practitioners of heritage curation. The preservation methods, reconstruction methods, and corresponding results are all illustrated with a wealth of colour figures and images. The book consists of sixteen chapters that are divided into five broad sections, namely (i) Digital System for Heritage Preservation, (ii) Signal and Image Processing, (iii) Audio and Video Processing, (iv) Image and Video Database, and (v) Architectural Modelling and Visualization. The first section presents various state-of-the-art tools and technologies for data acquisition including an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) annotation tool and a specialized imaging system for generating the realistic visual forms of the artefacts. Numerous useful methods and algorithms for processing vocal, visual and tactile signals related to heritage preservation are presented in the second and third sections. In turn, the fourth section provides two important image and video databases, catering to members of the computer vision community with an interest in the domain of digital heritage. Finally, examples of reconstructing ruined monuments on the basis of historic documents are presented in the fifth section. In essence, this book offers a pragmatic appraisal of the uses of digital technology in the various aspects of preservation of tangible and intangible heritages

Author(s): Chanda, Bhabatosh; Chaudhuri, Subhasis; Chaudhury, Santanu et al. (eds.)
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 349
Tags: Digital preservation.;Cultural property -- Protection.;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.;SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.;Computer Science.;Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).;Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.

Content: Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Editors
Contemporary Digital Technologies at the Service of Cultural Heritage
1 Introduction
1.1 Interdisciplinary Cooperation
1.2 CIPA Heritage Documentation
2 Digitization of Cultural Heritage
3 ICT at the Service of CH
4 Selected Examples
4.1 The Restoration of a Collapsed Bridge
4.2 Virtual Restoration
4.3 Virtual Museums
5 Concluding Remarks
References
Visual Realism in Digital Heritage
1 Materiality and Appearance
2 Photography of Coins
3 Dome Photography
4 Image Processing
5 Specular Modelling
6 Image Rendering
References. EpiX: A 3D Measurement Tool for Heritage, Archeology, and Aerial Photogrammetry1 Introduction
2 Problem Statement
3 Epipolar-Based Annotation Tool
4 Experiments
4.1 Autofocusing with EpiX
4.2 Euclidean Epipolar Error Measurement
4.3 3D Distance Measurement
4.4 3D Reconstruction Results Using Metadata
5 Automatic Feature Tracking, Camera Metadata Validation, and Error Measurement
5.1 Automatic Feature Tracking and Evaluation
5.2 Camera Metadata Validation and Error Measurement
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References. Digital Heritage Reconstruction Using Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution1 Introduction
2 Convolutional Neural Networks
2.1 Training a CNN
3 Proposed Approach
4 Implementation Details
5 Experimental Results
6 Conclusion
References
Restoration of Digital Images of Old Degraded Cave Paintings via Patch Size Adaptive Source-Constrained Inpainting
1 Introduction
2 Exemplar-Based inpainting
3 Image Quality Measure in the Context of inpainting
3.1 The BRISQUE Technique
4 PAtch Modified Exemplar-Based InpainTing (PAMIT)
5 Source-Constrained inpainting
6 Results and Discussion. 6.1 Effectiveness of PAMIT6.2 Restoration of Images of Old Degraded Cave Paintings
7 Summary
References
3D-2D Data Fusion in Cultural Heritage Applications
1 Introduction
2 Method
2.1 Data Acquisition
2.2 Point Cloud Alignment
2.3 Camera Pose Estimation
2.4 Point Cloud Colorization
2.5 Texture Mapping
3 Experimental Results
3.1 Reformed Church of Somorja
3.2 Reformed Church of Kolozsnéma
4 Conclusion
References
Haptic Rendering of Oriented Point Cloud of Heritage Objects Using Proxy Projection
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Proposed Method
3.1 Surface Friction. 4 Results and Discussion5 Validation of the Result
6 Conclusions
References
Ontology-Driven Content-Based Retrieval of Heritage Images
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Content-Based Image Retrieval System
3.1 Feature Extraction
3.2 Clustering
3.3 Bag of Visual Words
3.4 The Index Structure
4 Ontology for Hindu Mythology
4.1 Ontological Structure
4.2 Ontological Similarity
5 Retrieval of Visually Similar Images with Semantics
5.1 Web-Based System
6 Results and Discussions
6.1 Calculation of MAP
6.2 Parameter for Implementation
6.3 Search Results
6.4 Comparative Study.