Parchment

Abstract: Some results and a discussion of the problems faced when trying to use micro-CT to read damaged parchment documents. Download: Slides

Abstract: “Can modern imaging and image processing techniques retrieve textual content from damaged parchment rolls?” The Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London is the leading centre for very high contrast X-Ray Microtomogra- phy imaging. The Apocalypto (Greek for Revelation) Project is our collaboration with experts in Computer Vision systems in the Com- puter Science department at Cardiff University. This collaboration has developed techniques and a workflow that allows us to reveal some textual content from damaged parchment rolls....

Abstract: “Can brute-force high-contrast tomography techniques and image processing techniques retrieve textual content from damaged heritage materials?” The Dental Institute at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is the leading centre for very high contrast X-Ray Microtomography imaging. The Apocalypto Project is our collaboration with the heritage community and experts in Computer Vision systems in the Computer Science Department at Cardiff University. This collaboration has developed techniques and a workflow that allows us to reveal textual content from moisture-damaged parchment rolls....

Abstract: The potential use of high contrast X-ray microtomography (XMT) for the reading of fragile historic documents without the need to physically unravel them is a new analytical imaging development in the field of conservation however, it is important to first assess if there is any evidence of change in the parchment structure during scanning by XMT. Modern and historic parchment samples were exposed to X-rays using the high contrast XMT equipment....