Heritage preservation: a computational approach

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." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Contemporary digital technologies at the service of cultural heritage / Andreas Georgopoulos -- Visual realism in digital heritage / Lindsay W. MacDonald -- EpiX : a 3D measurement tool for heritage, archeology, and aerial photogrammetry / Shizeng Yao, Hang Yu, Hadi AliAkbarpour, Guna Seetharaman and Kannappan Palaniappan -- Digital heritage reconstruction using deep learning-based super-resolution / Prathmesh R. Madhu and Manjunath V. Joshi -- Restoration of digital images of old degraded cave paintings via patch size adaptive source-constrained inpainting / Veepin Kumar, Jayanta Mukherjee and Shyamal Kumar Das Mandal -- 3D-2D data fusion in cultural heritage applications / Robert Frohlich, Stafan Gubo, Attila Lévai and Zoltan Kato -- Haptic rendering of oriented point cloud of heritage objects using proxy projection / K. G. Sreeni and Subhasis Chaudhuri -- Ontology-driven content-based retrieval of heritage images / Dipannita Podder, Jit Mukherjee, Shashaank Mattur Aswatha, Jayanta Mukherjee and Shamik Sural -- On the deep structure of ragas and analytic rating of music scores / Sudipa Mandal, Shilpi Chaudhuri, Antonio Anastasio Bruto de Costa, Gouri Karambelkar and Pallab Dasgupta -- Restoration of archival videos for preserving digital heritage of India / Saumik Bhattacharya, K. S. Venkatesh and Sumana Gupta -- Nrityamanthan : unraveling the intent of the dancer using deep learning / Aparna Mohanty, Kankana Roy and Rajiv R. Sahay -- Characterization, detection, and synchronization of audio-video events in Bharatanatyam Adavus / Tanwi Mallick, Partha Pratim Das and Arun Kumar Majumdar -- An image dataset of Bishnupur terracotta temples for digital heritage research / Mrinmoy Ghorai, Sanchayan Santra, Soumitra Samanta, Pulak Purkait and Bhabatosh Chanda -- A dataset of single-hand gestures of Sattriya dance / Mampi Devi, Sarat Saharia and D. K. Bhattacharyya -- Analysis of murals, stucco work, relief work, and textual narratives for understanding clothing styles of Vijayanagara period / Mamata N. Rao -- Visually reconstructed Krishna Temple, Hampi, Karnataka / Meera Natampally.