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Part 1:
Best practic es for dig ital imag e
Ph to ra hie — S stème s d’ar hiva e —
Partie 1: Meilleure s pratiques p ur la ca tur d’ima es n mériques
du matérie l de p trimoine culture l
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Introduction vi
1 Sc ope 1
2 A nal ysis of imag e qual ty 1
2.1 General 1
2.2 Imag e q alty char acte is ics 1
2.3 ISO 1 2 4 Tes chart te h ical featur es 2
2.4 Grid an g ra y/white featur es 2
2.4.1 General 2
2.4.2 Ru ning scale features (cm and inches) 3
2.4.3 Gra yscale an ru ning g r a y/white/ lack b r featur es 3
2.4.4 C lour p tch featur es 3
2.4.5 MTF measur ement featur es 4
2.4.6 A dditional ISO 1 264 tar g et featur es/r efer enc data 4
2.5 A dditional tar g et 4
2.6 Linear g ra yscale
5 2.6.1 DCSG colour chart 5
2.6.2 Limitations of Chart Based Imag ing Sys em A nalysis 5
3 Imag e q alty levels 6
4 Basic pr inciples of imag e captur e and pr oc es ing 6
4.1 Ove view 6
4.2 S ene r efe red an output r efe red imag e s ates 7
4.3 Use contr ols an r eadout 7
4.3.1 General 7
4.3.2 C lour Pr oc s ing C ntr ols 7
4.3.3 Ex posur e readout 8
4.3.4 Raw pr oc s or r eadout an contr ols 8
4.3.5 Othe use contr ols 8
4.3.6 Unwanted data modification 8
4.4 Mas e imag es an de iv tives 8
4.4.1 General 8
4.4.2 Raw imag e fi es 8
4.4.3 A rtwor k r epr od ction cycle 9
5 Imag ing system setup an cal bratio 10
5.1 General 1
5.2 Position camera sys em 1
5.3 Establsh u iformity-even i umination 1
5.3.1 General 1
5.3.2 Optional flat-fielding 1
5.4 Establsh ex posur e 1
5.5 Establsh tone r epr od ction curve (OEC ) 1
5.6 Cr eate an IC colour pr ofie 1
5.7 A nalyse colour an tone 1
6 A pplcatio of imag e qualty anal ysis 12
6.1 S le tion of imag ing sys ems: pr eflg hting eq ipment or ven ors 1
6.2 Using ISO 1 2 4 tar g et: Initial sys em config uration 1
6.3 Using ISO 1 2 4 tar g et: Sys em pe formanc ev luation (benchmarking ) 1
6.4 Using ISO 1 2 4 tar g et: Ong oing pe formanc monitoring 1
7 Technical metadata for imag e qualty anal ysis 14
A nne x A (informative)Line r Grays ale L* to RGB c onver sio table 15
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Trang 6Toda digitization pro rams ne d t o satis y the deman s of an int er onne t ed dynamic use
commu ity A digitiz d imag e can be r purposed ac os any n mbe of sy st ems an the efor ne ds t o
be wel def ined, t ech icaly ro us an media a nos ic The digital imag e of an original is int en ed t o
satis y multiple uses inclu ing ac es , ar hiving, r sear h, conse v tion, ed cation, marketing, social
media, r prod ction and dis ribution b th in print an onlne
Int en ed for org nizations, such as cultural he itag e ins itutions, ISO 1 2 4-1 spe if ies a method for
analysing ima ing sy st ems w he e it is imp rtant t o control the degr e of ac uracy an t o ensur that
ima ing q alty is maintained o e time The e ar thr e common a plcations of ISO 1 2 4-1:
a) ima ing sy st em pe formanc ev luation (benchmarking) – used for sy st em develo ment an
sy st em sele tion
b) ima ing sys em pe formanc o timization – used for tai oring the sys em to a p rticular jo
(use case)
c) ima ing sy st em pe formanc monit oring – used for control ng that the q alty of the sy st em
r mains consist ent an within spe if ications o e time
The purp se of this document is t o pro ide practical guidanc on how t o a ply ISO 1 2 4-1 for
cultural he itag e ima ing of two-dimensional originals This inclu es how the imag e q al ty analy sis
is pe formed, the fu ction of t echnical targ et featur s, an how t o adjus / ptimiz the pe formanc
of ima ing sy st ems A dditionaly this document i us rat es how ISO 1 2 4-1 can be used for sele tion
of a pro riat e ima ing sy st ems an how t o es a l sh an maintain imag e q alty in digitization
workflow s
An ex B pro ides information r lat ed t o develo ing a digitization s rat eg inclu ing as es ment of
cole tions, develo ing a hardwar s rat eg an sy st em sele tion
ISO 1 2 2 pro ides definitions for ima ing t erminolo y used in this document an ISO 1 2 4-1
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Part 1:
This document spe ifies how t o pe form q al ty analy sis of ima ing sy st ems (e.g flat bed scanne s,
planetary scan e s, or digital s i came as) used for digitization of r fle tive two-dimensional
originals
Original mat erials inclu e but ar not l mit ed t o b oks, t extual document , drawings, print ,
phot ogra hs, an p intings Ce tain ty es of two-dimensional mat erials with complex surfac
g eometry an or highly r fle tive surfac element r q ir spe ial i lumination t ech iq es that can fal
out ide the sco e of this document
NOTE ISO/TS 1 26 - 2wil ad res transmis ive materials
2 A nal ysis ofimag e qual ty
2.1 General
In orde t o analyse ima ing sy st em q alty ISO 1 2 4-1 spe if ies a t ech ical targ et (ISO 1 2 4-1 targ et)
designed t o incorp rat e multiplet echnical featur s for the measur ment of key ima ing charact eris ics
from a single imag e C lculations ar pe formed via sof war dedicat ed t o ISO 1 2 4-1targ et analy sis
2.2 Imag e qual ty characteristic
Imag e t echnical analy sis inv lves a n mbe of int er elat ed measur ment st eps, ty icaly the analy sis
proc s begins with v ldating w hit e balanc an t one r prod ction folowed b ad itional calculation
st eps as l st ed below When al measur ment ar within a set of def ined t ole anc s, an ima ing sy st em
me t a def ined q alty level R esolution an g eometry ar analy sed aft er firs analy sing cor imag e
q alty element
— White Balance: adjus ment of ele tronic s i l pictur colour chan el g ins or imag e proc s ing
so that radiation with r lative spe tral p we dis ribution eq al t o that of the sc ne i umination
sour e is r n e ed as a visual neutral
— Tone Repro uction C rve (TRC): curve gra hicaly desc ibing the r lationship betwe n the input
t ones an the output t ones in an ima ing proc s
— Gain Mod latio (highl ght / the pat ches):v riation of the g in o e the signal level
— Noise: u want ed v riations in the r sponse of an ima ing sy st em
— Dynamic Rang e: the dife enc , o e a given pe iod of time, betwe n ma imum an minimum
signal levels, ex r s ed in de ibels, contras ratios or f-st ops
— Banding: u want ed s ripes or b n s that oc ur in a digital imag e
— Defect Pix els: pix el or sub ixel that o e at es in a wa othe than the one in w hich it is driven
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spe if ied using somecolour dife enc metric
— S mplng Rate (dife enc betwe n claimed an o tained): n mbe of samples pe unit of time,
angle, r v lutions or othe me hanical, in ependent v ria le for u iformly sampled data
— Resolution (lmiting): measur of the a i ty of a came a sy st em, or a comp nent of a came a
sy st em, t o depict pictur detai
— Sharpening: amplf ication of the SFR b means of imag e proc s ing t o achieve sharpe a pearing
imag es Also, a clas of imag e proc s ing o e ations that enhanc s the contras of sele tive sp tial
fr q encies, usualy visualy imp rtant ones
— MTF 50: the mod lation trans e function is, a measur of the trans e of mod lation (or contras )
from the subje t t o the imag e an is used t o measur sp tial fr q ency r sp nse ( SFR) In othe
words, it measur s how faithfuly the ima ing sy st em r prod c s (or trans e s) detai from the
targ et t o the digital imag e MTF 0 r fe s t o that sp tial fr q ency (ex r s ed in l nes pe mm) at
w hich the imag e r tains 5 % of the t es targ et’ s contras , se ISO 1 2 3
— I luminat io n n-uniformity (arget siz r lated): a pplcation of visible radiation (lght)to an o je t
— Colour mis-re istratio : colour-t o-colour sp tial dislocation of othe wise sp tial y coincident
colour featur s of an imag ed o je t
— Distortio : displac ment from the ideal sha e of a subje t (lying on a plane paralel t o the imag e
plane) in the r corded imag e
— Reprod ct ion s ale: ratio of the siz of an o je t in a digital imag e an the siz of the original o je t
2.3 ISO 19264 Test chart technical features
The ISO 1 2 4-1 targ et is def ined in ISO 1 2 4-1:—, Annex A In ivid al chart featur s ar r prod c d
he e t o i lus rat e fu ctionalty An ISO complant targ et should contain al of the t echnical featur s
A dditional targ et ar uti z d for charact erizing ima ing sy st em colour an t one
2.4 Grid and g ray/white fe tures
2.4.1 General
Figure 1 — E ample of grid and gray/w hite fe tures
Gra /w hit e grids ar used for analy sing i umination non-u iformity an dist ortion I lumination
non-uniformity is simiar t o w hit e b lanc , but a ples t o i lumination at al t onal levels ac os the entir
ima ing f ield an can be adve sely afe t ed b the introd ction of non-imag e forming lght an or lens
falof Dist ortion is oft en cor e t ed digitaly, but doing so r calculat es each pix el location in an imag e,
this ma neg tively influenc imag e r solution but ma also contribut e t o an o e al impro ement in
imag e r prod ction ac uracy I lumination-non u iformity r sult ar ex r s ed as ΔL* dife enc s
betwe n the ma imum an minimum L* v lues
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Figure 2 — Example of running s ale
S ales ar used t o det ermine X an Y r solution, and t o t es for cons ant mo ement scan e s, s it ching
sy st ems)
NOTE T is me sured fu ction identif ies the actual ima ed values in b th x an y directions, as uring s ale
inte rity of the ima es
2.4.3 Grays ale and running g ray/white black ba fe tures
Figure 3 — Example of gray scale and running gray/w hite/black ba fe tures
The gray scale an run ing gra /w hit e b rs ar used t o det ermine OEC (t one r cording), g in
mod lation, noise, an signal t o noiseratio
Ima ing sy st ems should conve t the t one v lues in the original sc ne t o digital v lues; this t ech ical
t erm is OECF (Opt o-Ele tronic C nve sion Fu ction) Valdation of the cor e t sele tion of these
p ramet ers an a pro riat e r pr sentation of the digital information for the sele t ed p ramet ers is a
c itical fu ction of imag e q alty analy sis
Gain mod lation r fe s t o the v riation of the g in (dis ribution of t onal v lues) o e the signal level
an is a c itical fact or in r prod ction ima ing an colour ac uracy R ep rt ed as ΔL*v lues The smale
the deviation between the L* of the p t ches in the r fe enc targ et an the L*v lues r pr sent ed b the
digital codev lues the mor ac urat e the t one r prod ction
Noise is g ene aly the digital eq iv lent of f ilm grain, an pr sent it elf as pix el-t o-pixel fluctuations
oft en se n in de pshadow ar as Noise has the efe t of r d cing the o e al pe c ived smo th t onalty
of an imag e Noise can also take a one-dimensional form caled b n ing or s r aking
Signal t o noise ratio is the ratio of the inc emental output signal t o the ro t mean sq ar (rms) noise
level, at a particular signal level
2.4.4 C lour patch fe tures
Figure 4 — Example of colour patch fe tures
The colour p t ch element is used for det ermination of colour ac uracy, t es of the colour sp c , v ldation
of IC prof iles, an survey of colour v riation ac os the scan ing ar a
R esult ar r port ed in ΔE 2 00* v lues in the form of a ta le for each in ivid al p t ch t og ethe with
the r sult for the mean an the ma v lue for al p t ches It is sufficient t o r port the mean an the
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mandat ory
ΔE 2 0 * v luesar calculat ed using a l near ( SL= 1) formula ( e ISO 1 2 4-1)
2.4.5 MTF me surement fe tur es
Figure 5 — Example of MTF me surement fe tures
The MTF element ena les measur ment of sampl ng r solution ac ording t o ISO 1 0 7-1 (up t o
1 0 P I ma )
R esolution (Limiting) is the highes fr q ency ( p cing) that imag e detai can be dis inguished
S an e s an came as ma claim ve y high r solutions that ar unachiev ble d e t o design lmitations
of the t otal ima ing sy st em This measur identifies the actual achieved r solution an should not be
confused or conside ed eq iv lent t o sampl ng rat e
This chart element also helps calculat e sampl ng efficiency, an pro ides for visual r solution che k
up t o 1 lp /mm Samplng eff iciency is also calculat ed using the MTF Ex mple-if the o je t ca tur d
is 1 in long an the sensor has 40 0 pix el featur s ca turing the 1 inches, the samplng rat e is
40 pix els /in Mos ima ing sy st ems cannot achieve 1 0 % sampl ng eff iciency An ac urat e samplng
rat e is es ential t o k owing the siz of the original o je t
2.4.6 Additional ISO 1 264 tar g et fe tures/r eferenc e data
A dditional chart ar as ma be designat ed for la el ng, ad itional t es p tt erns or chart featur s an
man facturing information Chart R efe enc Data ar ty icaly cust om measur d an delve ed from
t es chart ven ors in t ext a le form t o be used as a r fe enc for calculations Chart r fe enc data set
an measur ment methods should be document ed
2.5 Additional tar g ets
In ad ition t o the ISO 1 2 4-1 targ et othe targ et ma be used t o charact eriz the ima ing sy st em
The folowing targ et aid in the charact erization of ima ing sy st ems
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Key
1 semi g los values (5 * to 9 *L)
2 glos black (4L*)
3 me surement s ale, in mm
4 per ceptual mid le value (5 L*)
Figure 6 — Example of l ne r gray scale
A l near gray scale is useful for conf iguration an ve ification of t one r prod ction (OECF) an g in
mod lation The targ et incorporat es semi-glos spe tral y neutral pigment eq aly sp c d in 5 * st eps
from L*5 t o L*9 with ad itional glos black p t ches The glos pat ches ext en the dynamic rang e an
ar used t o visualy as es lghting r fle tions an glar from impro e lghting g eometry
2.6.1 DCSG c olo r char t
Figure 7 — Example of DCSG colo r chart
The X Rit e C lour Che ke
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Digital SG (DCSG) colour chart is useful for colour calbration (devic
charact erization) C lour chart ma v ry in t erms of subs rat e, glos fact or, colour g mut an n mbe
of p t ches A colour chart that closely mat ches the surfac q alty an colour g mut of the original
artwork ma be uti z d
2.6.2 Limitatio s of C ar t Based Imag ing System A nal ysis
Being that ISO 1 2 4 is b sed up n analy sis of t es chart with t ech ical p tt erns an r fe enc v lues
the e ar inhe ent l mitations that ne d t o be conside ed Fabrication of t ech ical targ et v ries o e
time, an targ et ha e a finit e l fe sp n Baselne data used t o define t echnical targ et (chart r fe enc
data) can also v ry between use s an ven ors Ven ors ma impro e ly implement the analy sis
methods outlned in ISO 1 2 4 Bey n these p s ible v ria les, the e ar v ria les in the surfac
q alties of original artworks, ca tur i uminant an sensors that lmit the a i ty t o ensur an ex ct
colourimetric or pe c ptual mat ch
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Imag e analy sis of a t echnical targ et r sult in an ar a of v lues A cor element of 1 2 4-1 is the use
of aims an t ole anc s t o pro ide v lua le insight int o imag e q al ty These aims an t ole anc s have
be n de ived via ext ensive t es ing an fe db ck from cultural he itag e ima ing use s an pro ram
manag ers
ISO 1 2 4-1 def ines thr e imag e q alty levels pr sent ed as a matrix It is imp rtant t o not e that hese
q alty levels ar not pro ided for any spe ific use case or cat eg ory of artwork the efor r aching the
highes ima ing q alty thr shold for al cat eg ories is not a u ive sal r q ir ment The q alty levels ar
meant t o pro ide use s with a r fe enc t o g ug e r lative imag e q alty an t o help es a l sh workflow
b selnes En use s, use commu ities, or ins itutions ma r fe t o the 1 2 4-1 q alty level matrix
as ne ded t o ad r s dife ent o je t y es, t o document and shar r sult or t o spe ify imag e q alty
r q ir ment as p rt of contractual a r ement with out ide digitization ven ors Pro ram manag ers
ma cho se t o conf igur an maintain sy st ems that ex ce d the t ole anc definition matrix defined in
ISO 1 2 4-1 It is imp rtant t o document any sit e or proje t pe if ic q alty aims
Please r fe t o the imag e q alty ta le in ISO 1 2 4-1
4 Basic principles ofimag e captur e and proc es ing
In orde t o r cord an original digital ima ing sy st ems g ene aly folow the st eps outlned in the flow
dia ram shown in Figur 9 w hich i lus rat es a ty ical ar a sensor devic
Figure 8 — Typical ar ay sensor device
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firs form of ‘ raw’ r corded imag e, the raw cor e t ed C A data
The next st ep in a ty ical proc s ing path is the g ene ation of a fuly po ulat ed thr e-colour imag e
ar a Pro riety alg orithms, aimed at minimizing colour art efact , can be a pled he e This de-
mosaicing o e ation is the int erp lation of the single-r cord ar a t o a ‘ raw’ int erpolat ed r d, gr en
an blue data set Whie de-mosaicing alg orithms ha e impro ed o e time, r prod ction of c rtain
originals with halft ones, et chings an othe mat erials with high fr q ency visual p tt erns can sufe
from colour Moir art efact Moir is def ined as a spatial beat phenomenon g ene at ed b the mod lation
of n me ous sp tial fr q encies Moir art efact can impact b th luminanc an chrominanc Line
scanne s, and multi-shot sensor sy st ems minimiz the oc ur enc of colour Moir art efact as
de-mosaicing is not ne es ary in these ima ing sy st ems
Whit e-b lanc , an matrix colour-cor e tion o e ations ar usualy a pled next The r sult isan imag e
data set that isin a sc ne-r fe r d colour encoding
The final st ep in the imag e proc s ing chain is the r n e ing, usual y for displa The r sult is a f inished
imag e data ar a in an output-r fe r d colour encoding This st ep ma be a simple colour-sp c
trans ormation, but can also inclu e choic s for g mut ma ping an colour pr fe enc
Whi e the a o e st eps ar common in colour imag e acq isition sy st ems, spe ific implementation detai s
wi v ry Un e s an ing the signal (colour) encoding of a raw imag e is as imp rtant as a r ement on a
p rticular file format
4.2 Sc ene referred and output referred imag e states
The t erms sc ne r fe r d an output r fe r d ar es ential t o un e s an bes practic for artwork
digitization ISO 1 2 4-1 employ s o je tive methods t o help c eat e imag es that r fe t o the original
sc ne or o je t, in othe words: a sc ne r fe r d imag e Whi e scanne s ar ty ical y engine r d
t o pro ide a sc ne-r fe r d r sp nse, the majority of comme cial y a aia le ima ing sy st ems
ar engine r d t o del ve finished output r fe r d imag es o timiz d for “ pleasing” r n itions
Unfortu at ely each man factur r an o se ver ma have dife ent subje tive o inions a out w hat is
pleasing as o posed t o w hat isac urat e A sc ne-r fe r d imag ecan be r purp sed an r formatt ed t o
any media as it contains information trac a le b ck t o the original o je t When a sc ne-r fe r d imag e
is conve t ed (via IC or othe colour conve sion) or visualy edit ed an o timiz d for r prod ction t o a
spe if ic medium or devic , it be omes output-r fe r d
4.3 User c ontrols and r eadouts
4.3.1 General
Digital ima ing syst ems (came as or scan e s) an r lat ed control sof war should pro ide use s
ne es ary ac es t o controls r lev nt t o ISO 1 2 4-1 sy st em o timization If an ima ing sy st em l mit
ac es t o c itical controls an only ofe s output r fe r d or “ act ory” imag e proc s ing fu ctionalty,
imag e q alty ma sufe an use s ma be u a le t o con gur sy st ems t o me t defined q alty
c it eria Ifan ima ing sy st em does not ofe a pro riat e use controls and r adout the a plcation
of ISO 1 2 4-1 ma be lmit ed t o ima ing sy st em pe formanc ev luation an ima ing sy st em
pe formanc monit oring only, se ISO/TR 1 3 1-3
4.3.2 C lour Pr oc es in C ntr ols
The aim of the colour proc s ing for ISO 1 2 4-1 is t o prod c ac urat e sc ne colourimetry, with the
sc ne ado t ed w hit e chromatical y ada t ed t o the chromaticity of the imag e encoding ado t ed w hit e
ISO 1 3 1-1 spe if ies came a charact erization metrolo y ISO/TR 1 3 1- 2 pro ides conside ations
for det ermining sc ne analy sis trans orms Came as and scanne s should fuly supp rt cust om use
charact erization methods such as IC colour profiles (ISO 1 076-1), or DNG digital neg tive prof iles
(DCP) Use s should be a le t o sele t any v ld working colour sp c , des ination colour sp c , cust om
g ene at ed input colour prof iles an should be a let o disa le any fact ory or pro rietary colour r n e ing