Publications

EduceLab Research

 

2024 – 

• Multispectral Imaging of Damaged Sacramental Journal Pages: A Preliminary Study

Ankan Bhattacharyya, C. Seth Parker, and W. Brent Seales.

• Revealing Text from a Still-rolled Herculaneum Papyrus Scroll

Federica Nicolardi, Stephen Parsons, Daniel Delattre, Gianluca Del Mas- tro, Robert L. Fowler, Richard Janko, Tobias Reinhardt, C. Seth Parker, Christy Chapman, and W. Brent Seales. 

• Flexible Attenuation Fields: Tomographic Reconstruction From Heterogeneous Datasets

Seth Parker.

 

2023 – 

• Hard-Hearted Scrolls: A Noninvasive Method for Reading the Herculaneum Papyri

Stephen Parsons

• EduceLab-Scrolls: Verifiable Recovery of Text from Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT

Stephen Parsons, C. Seth Parker, Christy Chapman, Mami Hayashida, and W. Brent Seales

 

2022 – 

• The X-Ray Micro-CT of a Full Parchment Codex to Recover Hidden Text: Morgan Library M.910, an Early Coptic Acts of the Apostles Manuscript 

Paul C Dilley, Christy Chapman, C Seth Parker, and W Brent Seales.

 

2021 – 

• Scholarly Editing and AI: Machine Predicted Text and Herculaneum Papyri

James H. Brusuelas

• Using METS to Express Digital Provenance for Complex Digital Objects

Christy Chapman, Seth Parker, Stephen Parsons, and W. Brent Seales.

• The Digital Compilation and Restoration of Herculaneum Fragment P.Herc.118

Christy Y. Chapman, C. Seth Parker, Ali Bertelsman, Kristina Gessel, Hannah Hatch, Kyra Seevers, James H. Brusuelas, Stephen Parsons, and W. Brent Seales.

• OpenABF  (github page)

Seth Parker

• Volume Cartographer (github page)

Seth Parker, Kristina Gessel, Stephen Parsons, Jacob Chappell, Bruno Athie Teruel, Nikki Bentley, Ali Bertelsman, John Broadbent, Sydney Chapman, Abigail Coleman, Chao Du, Callie Gardella, Nick Graczyk, Hannah Hatch, Lula Hogg, Sean Karlage, Tam Nguyen, James Pack, David Pennington, Allison Revers, Mike Roup, Michael Royal, Kyra Seevers, Melissa Shankle, Raiffa Syamil, Ryan Taber, and JP Posma.

• Machine Learning Infrastructure on the Frontier of Virtual Unwrapping 

Stephen Parsons, Jacob Chappell, C. Seth Parker, and W. Brent Seales.

 

2020 – 

• Towards Automating Volumetric Segmentation for Virtual Unwrapping 

Kristina Gessel, Stephen Parsons, Clifford Parker, and William Seales.

• Structured Metadata Engine and Graph Objects Library (github page)

Seth Parker

• Deep Learning for More Expressive Virtual Unwrapping

Stephen Parsons, Kristina Gessel, Clifford Parker, and William Seales. 

 

2019 – 

• Unbending light: new computational methods for the correction of 3D effects in scanning XRF

Monica Ganio, Stephen Parsons, Seth Parker, Marie Svoboda, Brent Seales, and Catherine Schmidt Patterson.

• From invisibility to readability: Recovering the ink of Herculaneum

Clifford Seth Parker, Stephen Parsons, Jack Bandy, Christy Chapman, Frederik Coppens, and William Brent Seales.

• Revealing “Invisible” Signals in CT with Machine Learning 

Stephen Parsons, C. Seth Parker, Frederik Coppens, and W. Brent Seales.

• Making Fragile Artifacts Interactive: The 3D and Hyperspectral imaging Of PHerc.118

Kyra Seevers, Kristina Gessel, Alix Bertelsman, and Hannah Hatch.

 

2017 – 

• Enhanced CT Analysis Using Volume Flattening

Seth Parker and W. Brent Seales.

• The St. Chad Gospels: Diachronic Manuscript Registration and Visualization

Stephen Parsons, C. Seth Parker, and W. Brent Seales

• 4.1.1.7 Virtual Unwrapping: A Computational Approach for Reading Damaged Manuscripts

Brent Seales, C. Seth Parker, and Christy Chapman. 

• Reading the Invisible Library: A Retrospective

W.B. Seales.

 

2016 – 

• Reading the Invisible Library

1. Seth Parker, W. Brent Seales, and Gregory Heyworth.

• Quantitative Distortion Analysis of Flattening Applied to the Scroll from En-Gedi

Clifford Seth Parker, William Brent Seales, and Pnina Shor

• From damage to discovery via virtual unwrapping: Reading the scroll from En-Gedi

William Brent Seales, Clifford Seth Parker, Michael Segal, Emanuel Tov, Pnina Shor, and Yosef Porath.

• An Early Leviticus Scroll from En-Gedi: Preliminary Publication 

Michael Segal, Emanuel Tov, William Brent Seales, Clifford Seth Parker, Pnina Shor, and Yosef Porath.

 

2013 – 

• Virtual unrolling of carbonized Herculaneum scrolls: Research Status (2007–2012)

W Brent Seales and Daniel Delattre. 

 

2012 – 

• Asset digitization: moving beyond facsimile

W Brent Seales and Steve Crossan.

 

2011 – 

• Analysis of Herculaneum papyri with x-ray computed tomography

W Brent Seales, J Griffioen, R Baumann, and M Field

 

2010 – 

• Virtual conservation: Experience with micro-CT and manuscripts

WB Seales, J Griffioen, and D Jacobs

 

2009 –

• Lire sans détruire les papyrus carbonisés d’Herculanum 

W Brent Seales

 

2008 – 

• The use of micro-ct in the study of archaeological artifacts

Ryan Baumann, Dorothy Carr Porter, and W Brent Seales.

 

2007 – 

• Restoring 2D content from distorted documents

Michael S Brown, Mingxuan Sun, Ruigang Yang, Lin Yun, and W Brent Seales. 

• Physically-based digital restoration using volumetric scanning

Yun Lin 

 

2005 – 

• Opaque document imaging: Building images of inaccessible texts

Yun Lin and W Brent Seales

• Geometric and photometric restoration of distorted documents 

Mingxuan Sun, Ruigang Yang, Yun Lin, George Landon, Brent Seales, and Michael S Brown

• Image restoration of arbitrarily warped documents 

Michael S Brown and W Brent Seales

• Digital restoration using volumetric scanning 

W Brent Seales and Yun Lin.

 

2003 – 

• Digital restoration: Principles and approaches

W Brent Seales and Yun Lin.

 

2000 – 

• The digital atheneum: new techniques for restoring and preserving old documents.

W Brent Seales, James Griffioen, and Kevin Kiernan

 

1999 – 

• The Digital Atheneum-restoring damaged manuscripts

W Brent Seales, James Griffioen, and Kevin Kiernan

 

1998 – 

• Object recognition in compressed imagery

W Brent Seales, Cheng J Yuan, Wei Hu, and Matthew D Cutts.

 

 

Virtual Unwrapping

 

2024 – 

• Advanced Microspatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy for Noninvasive Imaging of Concealed Texts and Figures Using Raman Signal, Fluorescence Emission, and Overall Spectral Intensity

Alessandra Botteon, Marc Vermeulen, Laura Cristina, Silvia Bruni, Pavel Matousek, Costanza Miliani, Marco Realini, Lora Angelova, and Claudia Conti.

• Fully Automatic Virtual Unwrapping Method for Documents Imaged by X-Ray Tomography

Petr Kulagin, Dmitry Polevoy, Marina Chukalina, Dmitry Nikolaev, and Vladimir V. Arlazarov

• Unravelling hidden text and figures in paper-based archival doc- uments with micro-spatially offset Raman spectroscopy imaging

Marc Vermeulen, Claudia Conti, Pavel Matousek, Lora Angelova, and Alessandra Botteon.

 

2023 – 

• A Geometric Feature-Based Algorithm for the Virtual Reading of Closed Historical Manuscripts 

Rosa Brancaccio, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Seracini, Matteo Bettuzzi, and Maria Pia Morigi.

• Using computed tomography to recover hidden medieval fragments beneath early modern leather bindings, first results 

J Eric Ensley, Katherine H Tachau, Susan A Walsh, Honghai Zhang, Giselle Simon, Laura Moser, Jarron Atha, Paul Dilley, Eric A Hoffman, and Milan Sonka. 

• From tomographic reconstruction to automatic text recognition: the next frontier task for the artificial intelligence

V. Polevoy, P. A. Kulagin, A. S. Ingacheva, Zh. V. Soldatova, M. V. Chukalina, D. P. Nikolaev, and V. V. Arlazarov

• Volumetric Fast Fourier Convolution for Detecting Ink on the Carbonized Herculaneum Papyri

Fabio Quattrini, Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, and Rita Cucchiara

• Terahertz Identification of Characters Written in Iron-Gall Ink on Stacked Paper 

Haolian Shi, Leor Jacobi, Alexandre Locquet, and DS Citrin.

 

2022 – 

• X-ray tomography for manuscripts 

Fauzia Albertin.

• Deep learning for terahertz image denoising in nondestructive historical document analysis

Balaka Dutta, Konstantin Root, Ingrid Ullmann, Fabian Wagner, Martin Mayr, Mathias Seuret, Mareike Thies, Daniel Stromer, Vincent Christlein, Jan Schür

• High-precision page information extraction from 3D scanned booklets using physics-informed neural network

Zhongjiang Han, Jiarui Ou, and Koji Koyamada.

• The Ghosts of Bindings Past: Micro-Computed X-Ray Tomography for the Study of Bookbinding

JD Sargan, Jessica J Lockhart, Andrew J Nelson, DL Meert-Williston, and Alexandra Gillespie

• Virtual unrolling technology based on terahertz computed tomography

Tianyi Wang, Kejia Wang, Kaigang Zou, Sishi Shen, Yongqiang Yang, Mengting Zhang, Zhengang Yang, and Jinsong Liu

 

2021 –

• Revealing the Nature of Black Pigments Used on Ancient Egyptian Papyri from Champollion Collection

Pierre-Olivier Autran, Catherine Dejoie, Pierre Bordet, Jean-Louis Hodeau, Caroline Dugand, Maëva Gervason, Michel Anne, and Pauline Martinetto

• Revisiting the Jerash Silver Scroll: a new visual data analysis approach

Daniel Baum, Felix Herter, John Møller Larsen, Achim Lichtenberger, and Rubina Raja.

• Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography 

Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei, Daniel Starza Smith, Holly Jackson, Martin L. Demaine, Graham Davis, David Mills, Rebekah Ahrendt, Nadine Akkerman, David van der Linden, and Erik D. Demaine.

• A computational platform for the virtual unfolding of Herculaneum Papyri

Sara Stabile, Francesca Palermo, Inna Bukreeva, Daniela Mele, Vincenzo Formoso, Roberto Bartolino, and Alessia Cedola.

• Virtual unwrapping of the BISPEGATA amulet, a multiple folded medieval lead amulet, by using neutron tomography

Birgit Wilster-Hansen, David C. Mannes, Karen L. Holmqvist, Kristine Ødeby, and Hartmut Kutzke.

 

2020 – 

• Virtual unfolding of folded papyri

Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke, Tobias Arlt, Daniel Baum, Hans-Christian Hege, Felix Herter, Norbert Lindow, Ingo Manke, Tzulia Siopi, Eve Menei, Marc Etienne, and Verena Lepper.

• 4D imaging of lithium-batteries using correlative neutron and X- ray tomography with a virtual unrolling technique

Ralf F Ziesche, Tobias Arlt, Donal P Finegan, Thomas MM Heenan, Alessan- dro Tengattini, Daniel Baum, Nikolay Kardjilov, Henning Markötter, Ingo Manke, Winfried Kockelmann, et al

 

2019 – 

• Placental Flattening via Volumetric Parameterization 

1. Mazdak Abulnaga, Esra Abaci Turk, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, P. Ellen Grant, Justin Solomon, and Polina Golland

• Virtual cleaning and unwrapping of non-invasively digitized soiled bamboo scrolls 

Daniel Stromer, Vincent Christlein, Xiaolin Huang, Patrick Zippert, Tino Hausotte, and Andreas Maier. 

 

2018 –

• An assessment of multimodal imaging of subsurface text in mummy cartonnage using surrogate papyrus phantoms

Adam Gibson, Kathryn E Piquette, Uwe Bergmann, William Christens- Barry, Graham Davis, Marco Endrizzi, Shuting Fan, Sina Farsiu, Anthony Fitzgerald, Jennifer Griffiths, et al

• Robust Virtual Unrolling of Historical Parchment XMT Images

Chang Liu, Paul L Rosin, Yu-Kun Lai, and Weiduo Hu

• Virtual Recovery of Content from X-Ray Micro-Tomography Scans of Damaged Historic Scrolls 

Paul L Rosin, Yu-Kun Lai, Chang Liu, Graham R Davis, David Mills, Gary Tuson, and Yuki Russell.

• Non-destructive Digitization of Soiled Historical Chinese Bamboo Scrolls 

Daniel Stromer, Vincent Christlein, Andreas Maier, Patrick Zippert, Eric Helmecke, Tino Hausotte, and Xiaolin Huang. 

• Browsing through sealed historical manuscripts by using 3-D computed tomography with low-brilliance X-ray sources

Daniel Stromer, Vincent Christlein, Christine Martindale, Patrick Zippert, Eric Haltenberger, Tino Hausotte, and Andreas Maier.

• Uncovering the hidden content of layered documents by means of photoacoustic imaging

George J Tserevelakis, Margarita Tsagkaraki, Panagiotis Siozos, and Giannis Zacharakis.

 

2017 – 

• Revealing hidden text in rolled and folded papyri

Daniel Baum, Norbert Lindow, Hans-Christian Hege, Verena Lepper, Tzulia Siopi, Frank Kutz, Kristin Mahlow, and Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke.

• Browsing Through Closed Books: Evaluation of Preprocessing Methods for Page Extraction of a 3-D CT Book Volume 

Daniel Stromer, Vincent Christlein, Tobias Schön, Wolfgang Holub, and Andreas Maier.

 

2016 – 

• X-ray computed tomography for virtually unrolling damaged papyri 

Dario Allegra, Enrico Ciliberto, Paolo Ciliberto, Giuseppe Petrillo, Filippo Stanco, and Claudia Trombatore

• Virtual unrolling and deciphering of Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast tomography

I Bukreeva, A Mittone, A Bravin, G Festa, M Alessandrelli, P Coan, V Formoso, RG Agostino, M Giocondo, F Ciuchi, et al.

• Recovering historical film footage by processing microtomographic images 

Chang Liu, Paul L Rosin, Yu-Kun Lai, Graham R Davis, David Mills, and Charles Norton.

 

2015 –

• Revealing text in a complexly rolled silver scroll from Jerash with computed tomography and advanced imaging software 

Gry Hoffmann Barfod, John Møller Larsen, Achim Lichtenberger, and Rubina Raja. 

• Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase- contrast imaging 

Vito Mocella, Emmanuel Brun, Claudio Ferrero, and Daniel Delattre

 

2014 – 

• Virtual unrolling and information recovery from scanned scrolled historical documents 

Oksana Samko, Yu-Kun Lai, David Marshall, and Paul L Rosin. 

 

2008 – 

• Area-preserving flattening maps of 3D ultrasound carotid arteries images

Bernard Chiu, Micaela Egger, David J Spence, Grace Parraga, and Aaron Fenster

 

2005 – 

• Flattening maps for the visualization of multibranched vessels

Lei Zhu, Steven Haker, and Allen Tannenbaum

 

2004 – 

• Robust and objective decomposition and mapping of bifurcating vessels 

Luca Antiga and David A Steinman.

 

2001 – 

• Nonlinear virtual colon unfolding

AV Vilanova Bartroli, Rainer Wegenkittl, Andreas Konig, and Eduard Groller

 

2000 – 

• Nondistorting flattening maps and the 3-D visualization of colon CT images

S Halier, Sigurd Angenent, A Tannenbaurn, and Ron Kikinis