The AIRES-CH Project: Artificial Intelligence for Digital REStoration of Cultural Heritages Using Nuclear Imaging and Multidimensional Adversarial Neural Networks
Alessandro Bombini, Lucio Anderlini, Luca dell’Agnello, and 3 more authors
In Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022, Jan 2022
Artificial Intelligence for digital REStoration of Cultural Heritage (AIRES-CH) aims at building a web-based app for the digital restoration of pictorial artworks through Computer Vision technologies applied to physical imaging raw data. Physical imaging techniques, such as XRF, PIXE, PIGE, and FTIR, are capable of exploring a wide range of wavelengths providing spectra that are used to infer the chemical composition of the pigments. A multidimensional neural network, specifically designed to automatically restore damaged or hidden pictorial work, will be deployed on the INFN-CHNet Cloud as a web service, freely available to authenticated researchers. In this contribution, we report the status of the project, its current results, the development plans as well as future prospects.
LNCS
Hyperparameter Optimisation of Artificial Intelligence for Digital REStoration of Cultural Heritages (AIRES-CH) Models
Alessandro Bombini, Lucio Anderlini, Luca dell’Agnello, and 3 more authors
In Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022 Workshops, Jan 2022
Artificial Intelligence for digital REStoration of Cultural Heritage (AIRES-CH) aims at building a web-based app for the digital restoration of pictorial artworks through Computer Vision technologies applied to physical imaging raw data.
LNCS
Towards the Creation of AI-powered Queries Using Transfer Learning on NLP Model - The THESPIAN-NER Experience
Alessandro Bombini, Lisa Castelli, Achille Felicetti, and 3 more authors
In Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 2022 Workshops, Jan 2022
Tools for HEritage Science Processing, Integration, and ANalysis (THESPIAN) is a cloud system that offers multiple web services to the researchers of INFN-CHNet, from storing their raw data to reusing them by following the FAIR principles for establishing integration and interoperability among shared information.
Zenodo
Digitizing Cultural Heritage - A Reconnaissance Investigation on the Data Infrastructure
Alessandro Bombini, Achille Felicetti, Federico Ferrari, and 4 more authors
Within the context of the Competence Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (4CH) project, the design and deployment of a platform-as-a-service cloud infrastructure for the first European competence centre of cultural heritage (CH) has begun, and some web services have been integrated into the platform. The first integrated service is the INFN-CHNet web application for FAIR storage of scientific analysis on CH: THESPIAN-Mask. It is based on CIDOC-CRM-compatible ontology and CRMhs, describing the scientific metadata. To ease the process of metadata generation and data injection, another web service has been developed: THESPIAN-NER. It is a tool based on a deep neural network for named entity recognition (NER), enabling users to upload their Italian-written report files and obtain labelled entities. Those entities are used as keywords either to serve as (semi)automatically custom queries for the database, or to fill (part of) the metadata form as a descriptor for the file to be uploaded. The services have been made freely available in the 4CH PaaS cloud platform.
GARR
SUM: Save the Ukrainian Monuments - The 4CH European Competence Centre action to save Ukrainian Digital Heritage
Alessandro Bombini, Lisa Castelli, Alessandro Costantini, and 7 more authors
In Conferenza GARR 2022 - Condivisioni. La rete come strumento per costruire il futuro, Mar 2022
The LABEC laboratory, the INFN ion beam laboratory of nuclear techniques for environment and cultural heritage, located in the Scientific and Technological Campus of the University of Florence in Sesto Fiorentino, started its operational activities in 2004, after INFN decided in 2001 to provide our applied nuclear physics group with a large laboratory dedicated to applications of accelerator-related analytical techniques, based on a new 3 MV Tandetron accelerator. The new accelerator greatly improved the performance of existing Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) applications (for which we were using since the 1980s an old single-ended Van de Graaff accelerator) and in addition allowed to start a novel activity of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), in particular for 14C dating. Switching between IBA and AMS operation became very easy and fast, which allowed us high flexibility in programming the activities, mainly focused on studies of cultural heritage and atmospheric aerosol composition, but including also applications to biology, geology, material science and forensics, ion implantation, tests of radiation damage to components, detector performance tests and low-energy nuclear physics. This paper describes the facilities presently available in the LABEC laboratory, their technical features and some success stories of recent applications.
GARR
CHNet cloud: an EOSC-based cloud for physical technologies applied to cultural heritages
Alessandro Bombini, Lisa Castelli, Luca dell’Agnello, and 4 more authors
In Conferenza GARR 2021 - Sostenibile/Digitale. Dati e tecnologie per il futuro, Apr 2021