Imaging Research

My imaging research concentrates on making new higher quality digital capture of objects, typically related to cultural heritage. From the early days of accurate colour high resolution imaging, through printing, web-accessibility to modern work on RTI imaging.

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)

• See the new site for our imaging systems
• PTM/RTI imaging - which started with collaboration with Archaeology in Southampton

Previous European projects

• VASARI - high resolution colorimetric scanner for paintings
• MARC - high quality art reproduction and camera
• Viseum - hi-res art image browsing over the Web and ATM links
• ACOHIR - multi-view imaging of 3D objects
• Fingartprint - high resolution 3D and spectral imaging for "fingerprinting" art

Image Browsing for the web

• Image browsing for the Web - our IIP-based browser for large image files
• IIPimage resulting from our projects and co-developed with the Louvre's Research Labs (C2RMF)

Other Collaborations

• HP sponsored Art & Science
• Archimedes Palimsest - I advised on the imaging system which was inspired by VASARI and on the OCR broken text retrieval

Glacier Imaging

• bore hole camera - Iceland,
• version 2 in Norway