Quantitative canvas weave analysis using 2-D synchrosqueezed transforms: Application of time-frequency analysis to art investigation

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 55-63

  Yang, Haizhao ^a   Lu, Jianfeng ^b   Brown, William P ^c   Daubechies, Ingrid ^b   Ying, Lexing ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina Museum of Art   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; X RAY ABSORPTION;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; COMPUTER ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SMALL AREA; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WEAVE PATTERNS; X-RADIOGRAPHS; X-RAY IMAGE;

WEAVING;

EID: 85032751597     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2015.2406882     Document Type: Article

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