@mastersthesis{Spiliotis1999_0,<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Abstract = {To identify artifacts in an oil painting, one must understand the painting and its properties. An art conservator is able to determine artifacts in a painting because he has knowledge of the techniques used in the construction. The art conservator uses different types of techniques to enhance discontinuities in an oil painting. These techniques include physical inspection, illumination with ultraviolet black light, infrared imaging, x-ray imaging and other traditional methods. While these techniques are individually useful in art conservation, they can be made more useful by advanced image analysis methods.  This research uses multi-dimensional segmentation to improve the determination of discontinuities. Multi-dimensional segmentation is a procedure that has been used in medical and remote imaging, but rarely in the art world. Multi-dimensional segmentation takes multiple images, identifies common information and uses it to identify similar regions in the imaged object. Two images are sent through a multi-dimensional image segmentation routine to obtain image content of the physical object. We have determined and verified that segmenting certain areas of the histogram will reveal areas that are not original to the painting.},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Address = {Rochester, New York, United States},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Author = {Pano Spiliotis},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Keywords = {oil paintings},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Month = {},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;School = {Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Science, Center for Imaging Science},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Title = {Multi-Dimensional Segmentation of an Oil Painting},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Type = {Senior Research Project},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Url = {},<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Year = {1999}