Imaging Working Group

Hi IWG!

We are excited about the imaging that is running through the program at this year's AIC Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, May 29-31)!! We have been collaborating with a few specialty groups (Book & Paper, Photographic Materials, and Research & Technical Studies) to plan three sessions! You can take a look at the full conference schedule online. The three sessions are included below, and I am attaching a document with a little more detail about the sessions including the talk titles, presenters, and abstracts. 

•  Imaging Lunch Session (90-min): Foundations of Spectral Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects (Multiband, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging) on Thursday, May 29 from 12-1:30pm ($35 for lunch ticket). 
  • Light-Matter Interaction: Kate Dooley, Imaging Scientist, National Gallery of Art
  • Multiband Imaging: Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Assoc. Professor, Buffalo State University
  • Imaging Spectroscopy (Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging): Olivia Kuzio, Assistant Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute
• Joint Specialty Session on Imaging with Book & Paper + Photographic Materials + Research & Technical Studies + Imaging Working Group on Friday, May 30 from 8:30 - 10am.  

  • 8:30-9am "Investigating Transmitted Infrared Imaging to Detect Chalk Media on the Verso of Lined Stradanus Drawings" E. Keats Webb, Perry Choe

  • 9-9:15am "Colorant Detectives: An Interactive Dichotomous Key for Multiband Imaging" L.M. Ramsey

  • 9:15-9:30am "Automating Image Registration with OpenCV-Python: Lowering the Cost Barrier for Multiband and Multispectral Imaging Setups" Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Grace Wilkins

  • 9:30 – 10am "Using multispectral imaging to augment digitized West African manuscripts" Stephanie Growler 

• Imaging Concurrent General Session: Capturing Complexity: Addressing Imaging Challenges Through Collaboration on Friday, May 30 from 2 - 3:30pm. Session includes three imaging presentations.

  • 2-2:30pm "A Partnership Between The City Palace Museum in Udaipur and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Joint Study of Mewar Paintings Through Multiband Imaging" Marina Ruiz Molina, Girikumar Sekharakurup, Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah

  • 2-2:30pm "Photogrammetry Fast: Developing a New Automated Pipeline" Kea Johnston, JP Brown

  • 3-3:30pm "The Challenge of Chemical Reagents: The Verona Gaius and Vergil Plaimpsests at the Confluence of Technologies" Gregory Heyworth

There will also be presentations that include imaging outside of these three sessions. I will try to gather a list of those to share with the group. 

We are also working on a possible tour for the IWG and an informal happy hour!

We hope that we will get to see many of you in Minneapolis in May!! 

Best,

Keats 

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E. Keats Webb
Imaging Scientist
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
Suitland, MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 2/13/2025 9:39:00 AM
From: E. Keats Webb
Subject: Imaging at the AIC Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, May 29-31

Hi IWG!

We are excited about the imaging that is running through the program at this year's AIC Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, May 29-31)!! We have been collaborating with a few specialty groups (Book & Paper, Photographic Materials, and Research & Technical Studies) to plan three sessions! You can take a look at the full conference schedule online. The three sessions are included below, and I am attaching a document with a little more detail about the sessions including the talk titles, presenters, and abstracts. 

•  Imaging Lunch Session (90-min): Foundations of Spectral Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects (Multiband, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging) on Thursday, May 29 from 12-1:30pm ($35 for lunch ticket). 
  • Light-Matter Interaction: Kate Dooley, Imaging Scientist, National Gallery of Art
  • Multiband Imaging: Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Assoc. Professor, Buffalo State University
  • Imaging Spectroscopy (Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging): Olivia Kuzio, Assistant Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute
• Joint Specialty Session on Imaging with Book & Paper + Photographic Materials + Research & Technical Studies + Imaging Working Group on Friday, May 30 from 8:30 - 10am.  

  • 8:30-9am "Investigating Transmitted Infrared Imaging to Detect Chalk Media on the Verso of Lined Stradanus Drawings" E. Keats Webb, Perry Choe

  • 9-9:15am "Colorant Detectives: An Interactive Dichotomous Key for Multiband Imaging" L.M. Ramsey

  • 9:15-9:30am "Automating Image Registration with OpenCV-Python: Lowering the Cost Barrier for Multiband and Multispectral Imaging Setups" Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Grace Wilkins

  • 9:30 – 10am "Using multispectral imaging to augment digitized West African manuscripts" Stephanie Growler 

• Imaging Concurrent General Session: Capturing Complexity: Addressing Imaging Challenges Through Collaboration on Friday, May 30 from 2 - 3:30pm. Session includes three imaging presentations.

  • 2-2:30pm "A Partnership Between The City Palace Museum in Udaipur and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Joint Study of Mewar Paintings Through Multiband Imaging" Marina Ruiz Molina, Girikumar Sekharakurup, Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah

  • 2-2:30pm "Photogrammetry Fast: Developing a New Automated Pipeline" Kea Johnston, JP Brown

  • 3-3:30pm "The Challenge of Chemical Reagents: The Verona Gaius and Vergil Plaimpsests at the Confluence of Technologies" Gregory Heyworth

There will also be presentations that include imaging outside of these three sessions. I will try to gather a list of those to share with the group. 

We are also working on a possible tour for the IWG and an informal happy hour!

We hope that we will get to see many of you in Minneapolis in May!! 

Best,

Keats 

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E. Keats Webb
Imaging Scientist
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
Suitland, MD
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Hi IWG, 

We are a little over two weeks out from the AIC Annual Meeting in Minneapolis!! 

We have three imaging sessions planned in collaboration with Book & Paper, Photographic Materials, and Research & Technical studies that we are really excited about! And there are even more imaging presentations beyond those three sessions. Below includes imaging-related presentations and sessions from a quick review of the program. I may have overlooked some presentations, and if I did, please add those as you come across them. 

** Make sure you register for the lunch session on Thursday, May 29 as that one does require registration.

Thursday, May 29 

• 12 – 2pm – Imaging Lunch Session: Foundations of Spectral Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects (Multiband, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging), registration required, $35 for lunch

o   Kate Dooley, Imaging Scientist, National Gallery of Art: Light-Matter Interaction

o   Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Assoc. Professor, Buffalo State University: Multiband Imaging

o   Olivia Kuzio, Assistant Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute: Imaging Spectroscopy (Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging)

• 2:00 – 2:30pm – (Photographic Materials) Application of High-Resolution Multispectral Imaging Systems for the Very-Long-Term Monitoring of Degradation Over Time of Photographs, Paintings, Fabrics, Documents, Books, and Other Cultural Heritage Materials" Henry Wilhelm, Ken Boydston, Joe Uziel, Shai Halevei

• 6:30 – 9pm – Imaging Working Group Happy Hour and Studio Tour – Minneapolis Institute of Art (currently sold out but looking into adding a second tour) 

Friday, May 30

Joint Specialty Session on Imaging (Book & Paper + Photographic Materials + Research & Technical Studies + Imaging Working Group)

• 8:30-9am "Investigating Transmitted Infrared Imaging to Detect Chalk Media on the Verso of Lined Stradanus Drawings" E. Keats Webb, Perry Choe
• 9-9:15am "Colorant Detectives: An Interactive Dichotomous Key for Multiband Imaging" L.M. Ramsey
• 9:15-9:30am "Automating Image Registration with OpenCV-Python: Lowering the Cost Barrier for Multiband and Multispectral Imaging Setups" Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Grace Wilkins
• 9:30 – 10am "Using multispectral imaging to augment digitized West African manuscripts" Stephanie Growler 

• 9:30 – 10am (Objects) "Radiography in the Round: Capturing and Viewing X-rays in 360" Arlen Heginbotham, Robert Erdmann, BJ Farrar

• 9:30 – 10am (Wooden Artifacts) "In Between the Layers: Technical Study of Contemporary Vietnamese Lacquer Painting" Vu Do, Fiona Beckett, Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Emily Hamilton, Rebecca Ploeger, Gregory Smith

• 10:30 – 11am (Wooden Artifacts) "Re-defining the craquelure patterns on traditional Chinese musical instrument guqin with advanced imaging techniques RTI and micro-CT" Aidi Bao, E. Keats Webb

Imaging Concurrent General Session: Capturing Complexity: Addressing Imaging Challenges Through Collaboration

• 2-2:30pm "A Partnership Between The City Palace Museum in Udaipur and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Joint Study of Mewar Paintings Through Multiband Imaging" Marina Ruiz Molina, Girikumar Sekharakurup, Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah
• 2:30-3:00pm "Photogrammetry Fast: Developing a New Automated Pipeline" Kea Johnston, JP Brown
• 3-3:30pm "The Challenge of Chemical Reagents: The Verona Gaius and Vergil Palimpsests at the Confluence of Technologies" Gregory Heyworth 

Saturday, May 31 

• 2:30 – 3pm (Contemporary Art + Electronic Media) "Exploring 3D Documentation for Time-based Media artworks: Case Studies from the Smithsonian Institution" Ana Gabriela Calderon Puente

• 3 – 3:30pm (Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) "X-ray Dendro: DIY CT Tree Ring Measurement for Dating Wooden Panels" Arlen Heginbotham, Francien Bossema, Marta Dominguez-Delmas, Andrea Seim 

We look forward to seeing many of you in a couple of weeks in Minneapolis!! 

Best,

Keats 

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E. Keats Webb
Imaging Scientist
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
Suitland, MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-13-2025 09:39
From: E. Keats Webb
Subject: Imaging at the AIC Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, May 29-31

Hi IWG!

We are excited about the imaging that is running through the program at this year's AIC Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, May 29-31)!! We have been collaborating with a few specialty groups (Book & Paper, Photographic Materials, and Research & Technical Studies) to plan three sessions! You can take a look at the full conference schedule online. The three sessions are included below, and I am attaching a document with a little more detail about the sessions including the talk titles, presenters, and abstracts. 

•  Imaging Lunch Session (90-min): Foundations of Spectral Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects (Multiband, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging) on Thursday, May 29 from 12-1:30pm ($35 for lunch ticket). 
  • Light-Matter Interaction: Kate Dooley, Imaging Scientist, National Gallery of Art
  • Multiband Imaging: Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Assoc. Professor, Buffalo State University
  • Imaging Spectroscopy (Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging): Olivia Kuzio, Assistant Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute
• Joint Specialty Session on Imaging with Book & Paper + Photographic Materials + Research & Technical Studies + Imaging Working Group on Friday, May 30 from 8:30 - 10am.  

  • 8:30-9am "Investigating Transmitted Infrared Imaging to Detect Chalk Media on the Verso of Lined Stradanus Drawings" E. Keats Webb, Perry Choe

  • 9-9:15am "Colorant Detectives: An Interactive Dichotomous Key for Multiband Imaging" L.M. Ramsey

  • 9:15-9:30am "Automating Image Registration with OpenCV-Python: Lowering the Cost Barrier for Multiband and Multispectral Imaging Setups" Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Grace Wilkins

  • 9:30 – 10am "Using multispectral imaging to augment digitized West African manuscripts" Stephanie Growler 

• Imaging Concurrent General Session: Capturing Complexity: Addressing Imaging Challenges Through Collaboration on Friday, May 30 from 2 - 3:30pm. Session includes three imaging presentations.

  • 2-2:30pm "A Partnership Between The City Palace Museum in Udaipur and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Joint Study of Mewar Paintings Through Multiband Imaging" Marina Ruiz Molina, Girikumar Sekharakurup, Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah

  • 2-2:30pm "Photogrammetry Fast: Developing a New Automated Pipeline" Kea Johnston, JP Brown

  • 3-3:30pm "The Challenge of Chemical Reagents: The Verona Gaius and Vergil Plaimpsests at the Confluence of Technologies" Gregory Heyworth

There will also be presentations that include imaging outside of these three sessions. I will try to gather a list of those to share with the group. 

We are also working on a possible tour for the IWG and an informal happy hour!

We hope that we will get to see many of you in Minneapolis in May!! 

Best,

Keats 

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E. Keats Webb
Imaging Scientist
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
Suitland, MD
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