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Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage

  • Offers a fundamental theory and methodology in digital protection preservation technology for cultural heritage

  • Comprehensive treatise of the topic

  • Numerous examples are introduced

  • Most recent results with applications

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 1-12
  3. Fundamentals of Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 13-68
  4. Digitization of Cultural Heritage

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 69-99
  5. Digital Management of Cultural Heritage Protection

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 101-133
  6. Virtual Rigid Artifact Restoration Technology

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 135-185
  7. Virtual Restoration Techniques of Calligraphy and Painting

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 187-205
  8. Digital Museum

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 207-233
  9. Application Examples of Cultural Heritage Digitization Protection

    • Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu
    Pages 235-250
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 251-259

About this book

"Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage" discusses the technology and processes in digital preservation of cultural heritage. It covers topics in five major areas: Digitization of cultural heritage; Digital management in the cultural heritage preservation; Restoration techniques for rigid solid relics; Restoration techniques for paintings; Digital museum. It also includes application examples for digital preservation of cultural heritage.

The book is intended for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Graphics and Image Processing as well as Cultural heritage preservation.

Mingquan Zhou is a professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China. Guohua Geng is a professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China. Zhongke Wu is a professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This book specifically targets the students … offering a compilation of ICTs that can be applied in the context of the digital preservation of cultural heritage, based on the authors’ experiences in related projects. … The book is more suited for computer graduates interested in the application of ICTs in the cultural domain.” (Evangelia Kavakli, Computing Reviews, August, 2013)

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China

    Mingquan Zhou, Zhongke Wu

  • College of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an, P.R. China

    Guohua Geng

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage

  • Authors: Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng, Zhongke Wu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28099-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Higher Education Press, Beijing and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28098-6Published: 16 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28099-3Published: 04 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 259

  • Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with Higher Education Press

  • Topics: Computer Graphics, Cultural Heritage, Image Processing and Computer Vision

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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