Digitizing the past

Photo: Basic 3D depth map of coin, used for further digitization methods Digitizing the past With cultural heritage objects, the ability to create 3D digital copies of these objects has become more prevalent as the technology needed has become more accessible. This process of digitizing cultural heritage objects is incredibly important for multiple reasons connected to […]

Monitoring changes of Cultural Heritage objects 

Photo: Example of a historical sample, measuring system and output quantities from a 3D DIC measurement. The sample is subjected to humidity fluctuations which result in the formation of displacements and change of its shape. Monitoring changes of Cultural Heritage objects  Cultural Heritage (CH) objects represent the history and identity inherited from our ancestors, and […]

PhD midway presentations for the External Expert Advisory Board

PhD midway presentations for the External Expert Advisory Board The second year of the CHANGE project is about to come to end, meaning we are soon half way through the project and our Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) are midway through their PhD project. It was time to catch up on their current status of their […]

Presentations during Electronic Imaging conference 2021

Presentations during Electronic Imaging conference 2021 Four of CHANGE PhD fellows presented their research during the Electronic Imaging 2021 conference! Ramamoorthy Luxman presented “Next best light position (NBLP) estimation for automating the RTI acquisition process”, David Lewis presented “An automated adaptive focus pipeline for reflectance transformation imaging”, Athanasia Papanikolaou presented “3D digital image correlation system […]

CHANGE Virtual Training School

Photo: Japanese Woodblock Print: Under the Wave Off Kanagawa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CHANGE Virtual Training School As for many others, the virtual seminars have become a big part of the working day of our project members. When the pandemic stopped us from meeting in Paris for the CHANGE School France this spring, we […]

CHANGE at the 8th International EuroMed Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage

Photo: Thomas Rigauts CHANGE at the 8th International EuroMed Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage Organised every second year by the Digital Heritage Research Laboratory at the Cyprus University of Technology, the 8th International EuroMed Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage ended after an intense four-day programme conducted the 2. – 5. of November. This year, the […]

Classifying Munch Paintings

Photo: Schematic of the machine learning classification method. Paintings are (from the top): “Jealousy in the Garden”, “the Sun”, “Scream”, “Rue Lafayette”, all by Munch. Classifying Munch Paintings Munch – the Norwegian painter is probably most famous for his painting called “The Scream” but as a talented artist who painted for 60 years, his heritage is […]

Track and Visualise the CHANGEs on Cultural Heritage Surfaces

Track and Visualise the CHANGEs on Cultural Heritage Surfaces The conservation and restoration of cultural heritage objects are an occupation of protecting the material witnesses of human art from the past. It is very important to keep track of the occurrence of changes on its surface over time as documenting the changes is the first […]

Get aligned and track the CHANGEs

Get aligned and track the CHANGEs To understand what changes the cultural heritage objects undergo over time, a tremendous amount of data needs to be compared, analysed and stored. Scans of e.g. surfaces or minerals generates a lot of data and the datasets are often in different formats and domains. There is a need for […]