Project: 3D fingerprint detection in ancient museum sculptures from CT data
Description
The identification of a creator of a piece of art has both cultural and economical values. Cultural in a sense that it helps in shaping human history and economical in a sense that it gives an art buyer the confidence in purchasing an authentic art object. The type of art object studied in this thesis are ceramic sculptures. These sculptures are normally highly polished on the outside while the inside is unpolished. Fingerprints, which can be used to identify a single person, are therefore more likely to be found on the inside of a hollow sculpture rather than the outside. Current fingerprint scanning methods need the fingerprint to be located on the outside of the scanned object. This thesis is the first to use computerized tomography (CT) data to obtain fingerprints which can be located on either the outside or inside of an object. It is qualitatively shown that fingerprint identification with CT data is feasible.
Details
- Student
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SSSanders, S.
- Supervisor
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Andrei Jalba
- Secondary supervisor
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Robert van Liere
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