Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage

✍ Scribed by Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage" discusses the technology and processes in digital preservation of cultural heritage. It covers topics in five major areas: Digitization of cultural heritage; Digital management in the cultural heritage preservation; Restoration techniques for rigid solid relics; Restoration techniques for paintings; Digital museum. It also includes application examples for digital preservation of cultural heritage.

The book is intended for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Graphics and Image Processing as well as Cultural heritage preservation.

Mingquan Zhou is a professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China. Guohua Geng is a professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China. Zhongke Wu is a professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Fundamentals of Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage....Pages 13-68
Digitization of Cultural Heritage....Pages 69-99
Digital Management of Cultural Heritage Protection....Pages 101-133
Virtual Rigid Artifact Restoration Technology....Pages 135-185
Virtual Restoration Techniques of Calligraphy and Painting....Pages 187-205
Digital Museum....Pages 207-233
Application Examples of Cultural Heritage Digitization Protection....Pages 235-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-259

✦ Subjects

Computer Graphics; Cultural Heritage; Image Processing and Computer Vision