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Crack Detection in Oil Paintings Using Morphological Filters and K-SVD Algorithm

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Abstract

Cracks in oil paintings constitute an undesirable but unavoidable effect of time, deteriorating the painting quality. This work proposes a crack detection method that supports the physical restoration process of the artworks, providing a fissure map that allows the artist to visualize the pictorial layer and its flaws. This approach applies three image processing techniques to digitized oil paintings: oriented elongated filters, top-hat morphological filters and a K-SVD algorithm. Then, a post-processing stage based on K-Means is performed on the resulting binary maps to eliminate false positives. Finally, a pixel-by-pixel voting technique is applied to combine the binary maps. Our proposed framework has a better performance detecting craquelure when compared to other methods such as ADA Boost and convolutional neural networks. We obtained a recall of 0.8577, a probability of false alarm of 0.0779, a probability of false negatives of 0.1423, an accuracy of 0.7123, and an F1 value of 0.7783, which is amongst the best results for the state-of-the-art techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCommunications in Computer and Information Science
EditorsJuan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, Jorge Valverde-Rebaza, Eduardo Díaz, Denisse Muñante, Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Alan Demétrius Valejo, Hugo Alatrista-Salas
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages329-339
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031044465
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2022
Event8th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 1 Dec 20213 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1577 CCIS

Conference

Conference8th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/12/213/12/21

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