Abstract
Digital imaging methods have been developed and adapted to analyze the so-called "Archimedes Palimpsest", which is a 10th century overwritten manuscript including the oldest known copies of seven of the treatises of Archimedes. Multispectral digital images of five of the leaves of the palimpsest have been collected, processed, and analyzed using principal component analysis and orthogonal subspace projection techniques. These methods have been applied to "strip off the later overwriting to reveal the original text.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Image processing--Digital techniques; Remote sensing--Data processing; Image analysis; Palimpsests--Data processing
Publication Date
7-1-2001
Document Type
Thesis
Department, Program, or Center
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (COS)
Advisor
Easton, Roger
Advisor/Committee Member
Johnston, Robert
Advisor/Committee Member
Knox, Keith
Recommended Citation
Dickinson, Charles, "Text segmentation of the Archimedes Palimpsest using remote sensing techniques" (2001). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/2845
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TA1637 .D535 2001