Self-designed colour chart and a multi-dimensional calibration approach for cultural heritage preventive preservation

In this paper we present a colour calibration framework for cultural heritage preventive conservation. It includes a custom colour chart based on a regular sRGB division and a multi-dimensional calibration approach based on hyper-surfaces that map the original colours to the calibrated space taking information from all the channels. As shown, our work outperforms past proposals. This solution has been designed to be automatic and match the requirements of our cultural heritage surveillance framework needs, such as non-invasiveness and easiness to deploy. Its performance has been compared to publicly available calibration proposals and charts, and their results judged basing on the context and restrictions of the intended goal, such as illumination. Conclusions on the need for adapting technological solutions to the context of the goal, its cases of use when valid and self-designed methods are drawn. This work is part of the MIPAC-CM project.