Digital restoration using volumetric scanning

Authors:
W. B. Seales;Yun Lin
Affiliations:
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2004

Citing 8
Cited 6

Interactive dynamics

I3D '90 Proceedings of the 1990 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics
Large steps in cloth simulation

Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Beyond 2D images: effective 3D imaging for library materials

DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
The digital atheneum: New techniques for restoring and preserving old documents

Computers in Libraries
A modeling system based on dynamic constraints

SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Constraints methods for flexible models

SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The digital atheneum: new approaches for preserving, restoring and analyzing damaged manuscripts

Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Shape from shading with interreflections under proximal light source-3D shape reconstruction of unfolded book surface from a scanner image

ICCV '95 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision

A Fast and Stable Approach for Restoration of Warped Document Images

ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
User-assisted ink-bleed correction for handwritten documents

Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
A new system to acquire and restore document shape and content

PROCAMS '08 Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Projector camera systems
A new technique for the digitization and restoration of deteriorated photographic negatives

Journal on Image and Video Processing - Special issue on image and video processing for cultural heritage
BinarizationShop: a user-assisted software suite for converting old documents to black-and-white

Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
Virtual unrolling and information recovery from scanned scrolled historical documents

Pattern Recognition

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper we present a new, nondestructive method for revealing inaccessible text buried within damaged books and scrolls. The method is based on volumetric scanning followed by data modeling and physically-based simulation. We show by experiment that it is possible to recover readable text from objects without physically opening or damaging them. In handling damaged collections, conservators often face a choice between two frustrating alternatives: indefinite preservation without analysis, or irreversible physical harm for the sake of potential discovery. We believe that this work creates a new opportunity that embraces both the need to preserve and the possibility for complete analysis.