Digital image processing techniques for the detection and removal of cracks in digitized paintings

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 178-188

  Giakoumis, Ioannis ^a,b   Nikolaidis, Nikos ^a   Pitas, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Intracom Holdings SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Detection of cracks; Order statistics filters; Top hat transformation; Virtual restoration of paintings

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; DETECTION OF CRACKS; DIGITIZED PAINTINGS; ORDER STATISTICS FILTERS; TOP-HAT TRANSFORMATION; VIRTUAL RESTORATION OF PAINTINGS;

ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PAINTING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PAINTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PAINTINGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 30144434116     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.860311     Document Type: Article

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