Evaluating the Effect of Varnishes on the Color and Spatial Image Quality of Paintings

Society for Imaging Science and Technology: Image Processing, Image Quality, Image Capture, Systems Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 181-184

  Berns, Roy S ^a   Rene de la Rie E ^a  

^a NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC COLORS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); PHOTOGRAPHIC TRANSPARENCY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CATHODE RAY TUBES; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PAINTING; POROSITY; RESINS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VARNISH;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 1542362498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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