A geographical virtual laboratory for the recomposition of fragments

Abstract

The paper describes a digital system for the virtual aided recomposition of fragmented frescos whose approach allows knowledge and experience of restorers to cooperate with computational power and flexibility of digital tools for image analysis and retrieval. The physical laboratory for the traditional recomposition is replaced by a geographically distributed client-server architecture implementing a virtual laboratory of fragments. Image processing and analysis techniques support the whole recomposition task. A properly designed engine for image indexing and retrieval enables the retrieval of fragments similar to suitably chosen sample images. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.