scholarly journals A Mural at the Southwest Corner of the Mohan Chowk: Piece of History – Rediscovered

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Madan Chitrakar

During the restoration process, the experts from JAICA, made a chance discovery of a mural. But unfortunately, its viewing was/is almost totally blocked by an extra wall, built right in-front of the actual wall, with the murals. To demystify the contents, it has had remained a professional challenge, as it could be barely viewed by one end only – from within a space between 8-9 inches gap. It posed challenge for many reasons. First was its difficult location. Secondly, the painted wall was also damaged beyond descriptions – plaster-surface peeled off spread all over – making the task to read the images even harder. Most importantly, to read the contents or to identify the imageries in such a location, it asked for a professional ability of an art writer or an art historian, to be able to read and analyze. However, after a very meticulous effort and a proper reading of the postures, emblems and other iconographical features, the narratives are being made – explaining on and about the murals found. The essay is prepared and is made, after a series of exercises – begun by field visits, and followed by closer examination of the images on the spot and as is available in digital images. The writing is made - after the long afterthoughts, and in consultation with the available references.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuniel Guzmán Bazán ◽  
Juan Valentín Lorenzo Ginori ◽  
Julio Cedeño Ferrín

Hoy en día existe un creciente deterioro en los documentos custodiados en las instituciones archivísticas cubanas. La manipulación de los investigadores, las manchas, huecos y la humedad, han provocado que sea poco legible el contenido de estos documentos. Por tal razón, se trabaja sobre su vertimiento a formato digital como medida de conservación preventiva. Las imágenes resultado de la digitalización requieren una restauración que mejore su legibilidad. Con tal propósito se creó la aplicación DocLux. Actualmente el proceso de restauración no es efectivo. Los especialista de los Archivos Históricos deben seleccionar el flujo de trabajo (transformaciones y parámetros) necesario para la restauración de cada documento digitalizado. La inexperiencia de estos especialistas en procesamiento de imágenes digitales afecta la productividad de la restauración. En este trabajo se presenta una herramienta de apoyo para los especialistas de los Archivos Históricos con el objetivo de asistirlos en el proceso de restauración de las imágenes digitales. La herramienta recomienda el flujo de trabajo necesario para restaurar las imágenes digitalizadas. La parte central de la herramienta la constituye un sistema de razonamiento basado en casos y como técnica de extracción de características de imágenes el histograma de color. La recuperación de los casos más similares se realizó aplicando el coeficiente de correlación de Pearson. Las pruebas realizadas mostraron que con la herramienta propuesta se disminuye el tiempo necesario para restaurar las imágenes.   Palabras Claves: Realce de imágenes digitales, razonamiento basado en casos, histogramas de color, instituciones archivísticas, flujo de trabajo Abstract: Enhancement of digital images, case-based reasoning, color histograms, archival institutions, workflow Nowadays, there is an increasing deterioration in documents held in Cuban archival institutions. The handling of the researchers, stains, holes and humidity have turned the content of this documents to be unreadable. For this reason, it has being working on their migration into digital format as a measure of preventive conservation. The result of the scan images requires a restoration to improve readability. To this end, the Doclux application was created. Currently the restoration process is not effective. The specialists of the Archives must select the workflow (transformations and parameters) necessary for the restoration of each scanned document. The inexperience of these specialists on digital image processing affects the productivity of the restoration. This paper presents a support tool for specialists of the Archives, in order to assist in the restoration process of digital images. The tool recommends the workflow necessary to restore the scanned images. The central part of the tool is constituted by a case based reasoning system and the color histogram as feature images extraction technique. The recovery of the most similar cases was performed using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Tests showed that with the proposed tool, the time to restore the images decreases.


1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
C H Versteeg ◽  
G C H Sanderink ◽  
S R Lobach ◽  
P F van der Stelt

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Gotfredsen ◽  
J Kragskov ◽  
A Wenzel
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
D. P. Gangwar ◽  
Anju Pathania

This work presents a robust analysis of digital images to detect the modifications/ morphing/ editing signs by using the image’s exif metadata, thumbnail, camera traces, image markers, Huffman codec and Markers, Compression signatures etc. properties. The details of the whole methodology and findings are described in the present work. The main advantage of the methodology is that the whole analysis has been done by using software/tools which are easily available in open sources.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-210
Author(s):  
Erin Nunoda

This article examines YouTube videos (primarily distributed by a user named Cecil Robert) that document so-called dead malls: unpopulated, unproductive, but not necessarily demolished consumerist sites that have proliferated in the wake of the 2008 recession. These works link digital images of mall interiors with pop-song remixes so as to re-create the experience of hearing a track while standing within the empty space; manipulating the songs’ audio frequencies heightens echo effects and fosters an impression of ghostly dislocation. This article argues that these videos locate a potentiality in abandoned mall spaces for the exploration of queer (non)relations. It suggests that the videos’ emphasis on lonely, unconsummated intimacies questions circuitous visions of the public sphere, participatory dynamics online, and the presumably conservative biopolitics (both at its height and in its memorialization) of mall architecture.


2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (19) ◽  
pp. 1681-1702
Author(s):  
V. V. Lukin ◽  
S. K. Abramov ◽  
A. V. Popov ◽  
P. Ye. Eltsov ◽  
Benoit Vozel ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (19) ◽  
pp. 1787-1801
Author(s):  
C. M. Vargas-Martinez ◽  
Victor Filippovich Kravchenko ◽  
Vladimir Il'ich Ponomarev ◽  
Juan Carlos Sanchez-Garcia

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