Over the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the application of
photothermal techniques to the investigation of cultural heritage. Thanks to their peculiar …

Cultural heritage conservation is an active field of research, where there is an ever‐growing
demand for nondestructive and noninvasive diagnostic techniques, for performing remote …

The Afrasiab murals discovered in the northeast of Samarkand, Uzbekistan—the center of
the ancient Silk Road—are presumed to date to the mid-seventh century during the Sogdian …

Up to now, the sun-pulse recorded during the heating (day) and cooling (night) phases has
not yet been analyzed by using the infrared thermography (IRT) method through the …

Salt crystallization is a major agent of deterioration in buildings, especially important when
belonging to a city's cultural heritage. The study of this process is therefore essential to …

The Kizil Cave‐Temple Complex has been registered as a World Heritage site and was
formerly a part of Kucha—one of the most powerful and prosperous regions of ancient …

In this work, the evaporation of sodium sulfate droplets with different concentrations and at
different temperatures were studied using infrared thermography (IRT). IRT allows to detect …

Several image processing algorithms are available to enhance the results of non destructive
evaluation of artworks. This work is focused on the novel Partial Least Squares …

Stimulated infrared thermography has already shown its usefulness concerning heritage
mural paintings conservation. However, the different pigments of the pictorial layer can, in …

Within the framework of the cultural heritage conservation, stimulated infrared thermography
has already demonstrated its efficiency. However, sometimes, the different colors of the paint …