Project description
Solutions for colour analysis in cultural heritage restoration
Preserving Europe’s cultural heritage requires common digital tools shared by curators, conservators, and scientists to protect primary data and ensure accuracy, particularly concerning colour, which is essential for understanding artefacts. The Notre Dame fire showcases the need for adaptive solutions, while the Sistine Chapel restoration project highlights the value of predictive tools. In this context, the EU-funded COLOURS project will develop integrated tools for colour analysis and the restoration of various artefacts, including sculptures, paintings, textiles, historic films, and photographs. These tools will connect with the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, offering high-precision analysis and realistic restoration simulations. Additionally, the project will create hybrid spaces that facilitate real-time interactions with digital twins.
Objective
Preserving Europe’s cultural heritage requires advanced digital tools that enable seamless collaboration among curators, conservators, and scientists. These tools must preserve primary data referenced to digital representations and twins and maintain documentation of analysis and reasoning processes. They must also preserve “raw” primary data to ensure accuracy and integrity and support future analysis techniques as the methods evolve. Colour, a key element of cultural heritage, is critical to understanding the historical and artistic significance of artefacts. However, its preservation faces challenges such as fading, alteration or loss. Events like the Notre Dame fire highlight the need for adaptive collaborative environments, while public reaction to the Sistine Chapel restoration highlights the importance of tools that predict and communicate restoration results. Building on 2 years of research and development conducted under PERCEIVE, the project aims to make a major contribution to the digital transition of cultural heritage conservation and restoration by developing integrated colour analysis and restoration tools tailored to diverse artefacts, including polychrome sculptures, paintings, textiles, historic films and photographs. These tools, fully interoperable with the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, will provide high-precision analysis, simulate restoration results with perceptual accuracy, and support interdisciplinary collaboration through hybrid spaces that merge virtual and physical environments. These spaces will enable real-time interaction with the digital twins , fostering inclusive decision-making among conservators, curators, and scientists, while ensuring accessibility for remote participants. In addition, the project seeks to enhance public engagement by leveraging mixed reality technologies and digital storytelling to showcase restored colours and convey the authenticity of artefacts, promoting a deeper appreciation of CH.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering colors
- humanities arts visual arts
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications virtual reality
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.2 - Cultural Heritage
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01
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00185 Roma
Italy
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