Artificial Intelligence in Art Conservation and Preservation: Experience from the Ghent Altarpiece

AI&ARTS Webinar Series — Alan Turing Institute

Speaker: Professor Aleksandra Pizurica (Ghent University, BE)

Date: 23/04/2021

Abstract: Art conservation relies increasingly on multidisciplinary research including new sensing technologies and techniques for analysing multimodal data. In this talk we address important challenges for computer vision systems in automatic detection of cracks and paint losses as well as in overpaint detection and virtual restoration. We shall present our results in applying AI techniques based on probabilistic modelling, sparse coding and deep learning to these problems, making use of multimodal acquisitions of paintings. The focus will be on the case study of the Ghent Altarpiece and on the experience gained from a multidisciplinary collaboration in the framework of the recent major research and conservation campaign conducted on the Hubert and Jan Van Eyck’s masterpiece.

chair: Dr. Simone Parisotto

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