X-ray image analysis for cultural heritage investigations

Abstract

Image processing of radiograms is one of the fields that have known a very fast development since the digitalization of the radiological imagery. Depending on the objects that are studied, different approaches have been developed. In Cultural Heritage investigations image processing, the image analysis can go from conversion of image types and classes, morphological filtering, deblurring, and other image enhancement tools, to image transforms or refinement of regions of interest. In the present work, historical aretefacts, that are not to be opened, will be investigated by X-ray, and then the images will be processed and enhanced. Also for the case studied it would be analyzed the possibility of 3D reconstruction of an object of interest, inside the studied object by an alternative method.