Multispectral pattern recognition applied to x-ray fluorescence images of the Archimedes Palimpsest

D. Michael Hansen; Roger L. Easton Jr.; Rolando Raqueño

doi:10.1117/12.704532

29 January 2007 Multispectral pattern recognition applied to x-ray fluorescence images of the Archimedes Palimpsest

D. Michael Hansen, Roger L. Easton Jr., Rolando Raqueño

Proceedings Volume 6500, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV; 65000B (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.704532
Event: Electronic Imaging 2007, 2007, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The Archimedes Palimpsest is one of the most significant texts in the history of science. Much of the text has been read using images of reflected visible light and visible light produced by ultraviolet fluorescence. However, these techniques do not perform well on the four pages of the manuscript that are obscured by forged icons that were painted over these pages during the first half of the 20th century. X-ray fluorescence images of one of these pages have been processed using spectral pattern recognition techniques developed for environmental remote sensing to recover the original texts beneath the paint.

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D. Michael Hansen, Roger L. Easton Jr., and Rolando Raqueño "Multispectral pattern recognition applied to x-ray fluorescence images of the Archimedes Palimpsest", Proc. SPIE 6500, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV, 65000B (29 January 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.704532

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