The Digital Restoration of Da Vinci's Sketches

Authors: Amelia Sparavigna (Submitted on 9 Mar 2009)

Abstract: A sketch, found in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and covered by the written notes of this genius, has been recently restored. The restoration reveals a possible self-portrait of the artist, drawn when he was young. Here, we discuss the discovery of this self-portrait and the procedure used for restoration.

Actually, this is a restoration performed on the digital image of the sketch, a procedure that can easily extended and applied to ancient documents for studies of art and palaeography.

Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)

Cite as: arXiv:0903.1448v1 [cs.CV]

Submission history

From: Amelia Sparavigna [view email]

[v1] Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:06:09 GMT (717kb)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1448