• DocumentCode
    2785247
  • Title

    Multispectral imaging of the Archimedes palimpsest

  • Author

    Easton, Roger L., Jr. ; Knox, Keith T. ; Christens-Barry, William A.

  • Author_Institution
    Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Sci., Rochester Inst. of Technol., NY, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    15-17 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    111
  • Lastpage
    116
  • Abstract
    Multispectral imaging techniques are being applied to improve the readability of the text in a tenth-century manuscript that includes seven treatises of Archimedes. The manuscript was erased and overwritten about 200 years later with the text of a Christian prayer book. This talk reports on the results of the multispectral imaging techniques used on the Archimedes palimpsest.
  • Keywords
    document image processing; least squares approximations; spectral analysis; text analysis; Archimedes palimpsest; Christian prayer book; least squares approximations; manuscript; multispectral imaging; text readability; Books; Glass; History; Ink; Libraries; Mathematics; Multispectral imaging; Optical imaging; Painting; Text recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, 2003. Proceedings. 32nd
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2029-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AIPR.2003.1284258
  • Filename
    1284258