Image and Video Processing for Cultural Heritage

The preservation, archival, and study of cultural heritage is of the utmost importance at local, national, and international levels.Not only global organizations like UNESCO but also museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and private initiatives are working in these directions.During the last three decades, researchers in the field of imaging science have started to contribute a growing set of tools for cultural heritage, thereby providing indispensable support to these efforts.Indeed, signal, image, and video processing, computer vision, 3D modelling, and graphics technologies are nowadays widely employed to capture, analyze, conserve, virtually or physically restore, document, classify, recognize, and render cultural artefacts.These include historic buildings and monuments, archaeological sites and finds, works of art (paintings, frescoes, sculptures, decorative items, etc.), manuscripts, music score manuscripts, photographs or photographic negatives, films, and other entities of artistic, historical, or archaeological importance.This research can be grouped into two main strands.On the one hand, tools aim to provide easy access to cultural heritage by both the general public and scholars.On the other hand, a substantial body of work wants to ensure its preservation for future generations.An important factor that expedited and boosted the use of image and video processing techniques in cultural heritage applications was the initiation of extensive digitization campaigns by public institutions, museums, libraries, and archives during the last years.As a result, a huge amount of culture-related information is now digitally stored, and thus amenable to digital processing.

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