Enhancement of MultiSpectral Images of Ancient Manuscripts

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2014
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The Eurographics Association
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This work is concerned with MultiSpectral Imaging (MSI) and image processing of ancient manuscripts. The writings imaged are partially in a bad condition, since they are partially faded-out or have been erased and overwritten. Therefore, a transcription by philologists belonging to our project team is aggravated. In order to increase the legibility, the manuscripts investigated have been imaged with a portable MSI system. While the imaging in selected narrow spectral ranges gained a legibility increase, post-processing techniques can be applied to the MSI data in order to gain a further contrast enhancement. For this purpose, three different dimension reduction techniques are applied to the manuscripts. A qualitative analysis shows that these techniques are capable of increasing the legibility of the ancient writings, compared to unprocessed multispectral images.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/gch.20141303
https::/diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/gch.20141303.045-053
, booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
}, editor = {
Reinhard Klein and Pedro Santos
}, title = {{
Enhancement of MultiSpectral Images of Ancient Manuscripts
}}, author = {
Hollaus, Fabian
and
Sablatnig, Robert
}, year = {
2014
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
2312-6124
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905674-63-7
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/gch.20141303
https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/gch.20141303.045-053
} }
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