With the aim of providing a digital electronic replacement for conventional photography of
paintings, a scanner has been constructed based on a 3000 X 2300 pel resolution camera …

VASARI: Visual Art System for Archiving and Retrieval of Images, is a project funded by the
European Community ESPRIT II scheme. It aims to show that high resolution colormetric …

The aim of this project is to produce a high-resolution, colorimetric and permanent digital
archive of images taken directly from works of art. The proposed system is designed for use …

This paper describes a decade of work on digital imaging for museums. From 1989 to 1992,
the visual arts system for archiving and retrieval of images (VASARI) project produced a …

A spectrophotometric scanner has been assembled for applications concerning the
conservation of paintings and of other works of art with plane surface. Its optical …

There are many examples of cultural heritage having optical properties that have changed
with the passage of time. Examples include the yellowing, darkening, and fading of paints …

In this paper a method to assess the exact colour reproduction accuracy of a multispectral
scanner capable to acquire digital images directly from paintings is first described. Then is …

Digital image databases have become ubiquitous with museums, galleries, archives, and
libraries.(For simplicity,“museum” will be used to represent the many repositories.) Connect …

The current image processing system will be used to acquire colour separation images of
paintings in the Collection. It is proposed that these be compared with similar images made …

We have designed and built a high resolution multispectral image acquisition system for
digitizing art paintings for the European CRISATEL Project http://www. crisatel. jussieu. fr …