Content-aware surface parameterization for interactive restoration of historical documents
Pal K, Schueller C, Panozzo D, Sorkine-Hornung O, Weyrich T (2014)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2014
Journal
Book Volume: 33
Pages Range: 401-409
Journal Issue: 2
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12299
Abstract
We present an interactive method to restore severely damaged historical parchments. When damaged by heat in a fire, such manuscripts undergo a complex deformation and contain various geometric distortions such as wrinkling, buckling, and shrinking, rendering them nearly illegible. They cannot be physically flattened due to the risk of further damage. We propose a virtual restoration framework to estimate the non-rigid deformation the parchment underwent and to revert it, making reading the text significantly easier whilst maintaining the veracity of the textual content. We estimate the deformation by combining automatically extracted constraints with user-provided hints informed by domain knowledge. We demonstrate that our method successfully flattens and straightens the text on a variety of pages scanned from a 17th century document which fell victim to fire damage. © 2014 The Author(s) Computer Graphics Forum © 2014 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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University College London (UCL)
United Kingdom (GB)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland (CH)
United Kingdom (GB)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland (CH)
How to cite
APA:
Pal, K., Schueller, C., Panozzo, D., Sorkine-Hornung, O., & Weyrich, T. (2014). Content-aware surface parameterization for interactive restoration of historical documents. Computer Graphics Forum, 33(2), 401-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12299
MLA:
Pal, Kazim, et al. "Content-aware surface parameterization for interactive restoration of historical documents." Computer Graphics Forum 33.2 (2014): 401-409.
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