Integrated digitization method for cultural heritage objects

Abstract

Digitization of cultural heritage objects recently becomes a very promising tool for storing information about precious artifacts. This work shows an integrated, multimodal measurement method for digitization of cultural heritage objects with the example of a representative metal figurine. We propose an optical measurement system which uses structure light projection, multispectral color acquisition and Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) estimation. Accordingly, an implementation of data processing path is explained with an illustration of its main steps and the final result.