Sensors for Imaging Cultural Heritage: Technologies, Methods and Data Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Imaging continues to bring new ways to investigate our cultural heritage (CH). Innovations in various types of imaging sensors, optics, acquisition methods, and data processing allow clearer, deeper, and consequently new views of objects that can be obtained faster than previously. This special issue will focus on the techniques that go beyond a single digital camera image and aim to support documentation and conservation of CH objects. This Special Issue discusses imaging spectroscopy, multimodal imaging, and computational imaging, as well as includes descriptions of the best methodologies and acquisition parameters of workflows for operating imaging devices under indoor and outdoor environments. Topics dealing with contribution defining, testing, implementing, and developing specific criteria for optimizing the imaging systems, the methodologies, and the format of acquired data as well as the processing procedures for analysis, storage, usage, and dissemination of imaging data and results on 2D and 3D CH objects are also welcome.

Topics

• Raman Imaging spectroscopy
• Hyperspectral imaging
• Reflectance Transformation Imaging
• 2D and 3D image processing pipelines for data extraction
• Image registration for cultural heritage applications
• Pigment identification
• Imaging acquisition technical setup
• Endmember extraction and unmixing algorithms
• Deep learning applied to cultural heritage

Dr. Marcello Picollo

Prof. Dr. Eva M. Valero Benito

Prof. Dr. Kirk Martinez
Guest Editor

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