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A Learning Based Approach to Separate Mixed X-Ray Images Associated with Artwork with Concealed Designs

Pu, Wei; Huang, Junjie; Sober, Barak; Daly, Nathan; Higgitt, Catherine; Dragotti, Pier Luigi; Daubechies, Ingrid; (2021) A Learning Based Approach to Separate Mixed X-Ray Images Associated with Artwork with Concealed Designs. In: 2021 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). (pp. pp. 1491-1495). IEEE: Dublin, Ireland. Green open access

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Abstract

X-ray images are widely used in the study of paintings. When a painting has hidden sub-surface features (e.g., reuse of the canvas or revision of a composition by the artist), the resulting X-ray images can be hard to interpret as they include contributions from both the surface painting and the hidden design. In this paper we propose a self-supervised deep learning-based image separation approach that can be applied to the X-ray images from such paintings (‘mixed X-ray images’) to separate them into two hypothetical X-ray images, one containing information related to the visible painting only and the other containing the hidden features. The proposed approach involves two steps: (1) separation of the mixed X-ray image into two images, guided by the combined use of a reconstruction and an exclusion loss; (2) even allocation of the error map into the two individual, separated X-ray images, yielding separation results that have an appearance that is more familiar in relation to Xray images. The proposed method was demonstrated on a real painting with hidden content, Doña Isabel de Porcel by Francisco de Goya, to show its effectiveness.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: A Learning Based Approach to Separate Mixed X-Ray Images Associated with Artwork with Concealed Designs
Event: 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Location: ELECTR NETWORK
Dates: 23 Aug 2021 - 27 Aug 2021
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO54536.2021.9616096
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/EUSIPCO54536.2021.96160...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, Acoustics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Imaging Science & Photographic Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Art Investigation, Image Separation, Deep Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151201
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