3D reconstruction for damaged documents: Imaging of the great parchment book

Pal K, Terras M, Weyrich T (2013)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2013

Pages Range: 14-21

Conference Proceedings Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Event location: USA

ISBN: 9781450321150

DOI: 10.1145/2501115.2501125

Abstract

Digitization of historical documents is extremely useful as it allows easy access to the documents from remote locations and removes the need for potentially harmful physical handling. Traditional imaging methods are unsuitable for documents with complex geometry as they will produce images containing perspective distortions, and 3D imaging methods previously proposed for document scanning will often suffer from occlusions and/or require manual alignment of individual range scans. We present a lightweight pipeline for imaging and generating 3D reconstructions of severely damaged and distorted documents which exhibit such complex geometry. We demonstrate our pipeline on The Great Parchment Book of The Honourable The Irish Society, a 17th century survey of the Ulster estates managed by the City of London, which was severely damaged by a fire in 1786. Copyright 2013 ACM.

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APA:

Pal, K., Terras, M., & Weyrich, T. (2013). 3D reconstruction for damaged documents: Imaging of the great parchment book. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 14-21). USA.

MLA:

Pal, Kazim, Melissa Terras, and Tim Weyrich. "3D reconstruction for damaged documents: Imaging of the great parchment book." Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP 2013, USA 2013. 14-21.

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