Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs
Abstract In recent years, the conservation and protection of ancient cultural heritage have received increasing attention, and non-destructive testing (NDT), which can minimize the damage done to the test subject, plays an integral role therein. For instance, NDT through active infrared thermal imag...
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| author | Guimin Jiang Xin Wang Jue Hu Yang Wang Xin Li Dazhi Yang Miranda Mostacci Stefano Sfarra Xavier Maldague Qiang Jiang Hai Zhang |
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| description | Abstract In recent years, the conservation and protection of ancient cultural heritage have received increasing attention, and non-destructive testing (NDT), which can minimize the damage done to the test subject, plays an integral role therein. For instance, NDT through active infrared thermal imaging can be applied to ancient polyptychs, which can realize accurate detection of damage and defects existing on the surface and interior of the polyptychs. In this study, infrared thermography is used for non-invasive investigation and evaluation of two polyptych samples with different pigments and artificial defects, but both reproduced based on a painting by Pietro Lorenzetti (1280/85–1348) using the typical tempera technique of the century. It is noted that, to avoid as far as possible secondary damages done to the ancient cultural heritages, repeated damage-detection experiments are rarely carried out on the test subjects. To that end, numerical simulation is used to reveal the heat transfer properties and temperature distributions, as to perform procedural verification and reduce the number of experiments that need to be conducted on actual samples. Technique-wise, to improve the observability of the experimental results, a total variation regularized low-rank tensor decomposition algorithm is implemented to reduce the background noise and improve the contrast of the images. Furthermore, the efficacy of image processing is quantified through the structural-similarity evaluation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd68e9a1c00640f081eacc1286b039712023-11-26T13:58:01ZengSpringerOpenHeritage Science2050-74452023-10-0111111810.1186/s40494-023-01040-0Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychsGuimin Jiang0Xin Wang1Jue Hu2Yang Wang3Xin Li4Dazhi Yang5Miranda MostacciStefano Sfarra6Xavier Maldague7Qiang Jiang8Hai Zhang9School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Ligong UniversitySchool of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Ligong UniversityCentre for Composite Materials and Structures (CCMS), Harbin Institute of TechnologySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of TechnologySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of TechnologySchool of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L’Aquila, Monteluco di RoioComputer Vision and System Laboratory (CVSL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval UniversitySchool of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Ligong UniversityCentre for Composite Materials and Structures (CCMS), Harbin Institute of TechnologyAbstract In recent years, the conservation and protection of ancient cultural heritage have received increasing attention, and non-destructive testing (NDT), which can minimize the damage done to the test subject, plays an integral role therein. For instance, NDT through active infrared thermal imaging can be applied to ancient polyptychs, which can realize accurate detection of damage and defects existing on the surface and interior of the polyptychs. In this study, infrared thermography is used for non-invasive investigation and evaluation of two polyptych samples with different pigments and artificial defects, but both reproduced based on a painting by Pietro Lorenzetti (1280/85–1348) using the typical tempera technique of the century. It is noted that, to avoid as far as possible secondary damages done to the ancient cultural heritages, repeated damage-detection experiments are rarely carried out on the test subjects. To that end, numerical simulation is used to reveal the heat transfer properties and temperature distributions, as to perform procedural verification and reduce the number of experiments that need to be conducted on actual samples. Technique-wise, to improve the observability of the experimental results, a total variation regularized low-rank tensor decomposition algorithm is implemented to reduce the background noise and improve the contrast of the images. Furthermore, the efficacy of image processing is quantified through the structural-similarity evaluation.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-023-01040-0Non-destructive testingPulsed infrared thermographyNumerical simulationImage processingTensor decomposition |
| spellingShingle | Guimin Jiang Xin Wang Jue Hu Yang Wang Xin Li Dazhi Yang Miranda Mostacci Stefano Sfarra Xavier Maldague Qiang Jiang Hai Zhang Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs Heritage Science Non-destructive testing Pulsed infrared thermography Numerical simulation Image processing Tensor decomposition |
| title | Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs |
| title_full | Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs |
| title_fullStr | Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs |
| title_short | Simulation-aided infrared thermography with decomposition-based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs |
| title_sort | simulation aided infrared thermography with decomposition based noise reduction for detecting defects in ancient polyptychs |
| topic | Non-destructive testing Pulsed infrared thermography Numerical simulation Image processing Tensor decomposition |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-023-01040-0 |
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