Principal Investigator

Miguel Rodrigues

Professor

Miguel Rodrigues is a Full Professor with the Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. His research interests lie in the areas of information theory, information processing, and machine learning.

Co-Investigators

Pier Luigi Dragotti

Professor of Signal Processing

Pier Luigi Dragotti is Professor of Signal Processing in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the IEEE. His research interests include sampling theory, wavelet theory and its applications, sparsity-driven signal processing with application in image super-resolution, neuroscience and for art investigation.  

Catherine Higgitt

Principal Scientist at the National Gallery

Catherine Higgitt has a PhD in chemistry (University of York) and joined the National Gallery in 1999 as an organic analyst, specialising in the study of paint binding media using a combination of spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques. She is currently a Principal Scientist at the NG, helping extend the range of analytical and imaging approaches available for the study of paintings.

Joseph Padfield

Principal Scientist at the National Gallery

Joseph Padfield is a conservation scientist at the National Gallery in London, with a degree in Chemistry from Edinburgh University, an MA in Easel Paintings Conservation from the University of Northumbria and a postgraduate diploma in the conservation of paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute. His main research interests include generating/sharing digital images, the semantic web, digital documentation and museum lighting.

David Peggie

Senior Scientist at the National Gallery

David Peggie obtained a Masters degree in Chemistry at The University of Edinburgh (2002) and then a PhD (2006) for research into the identification of dyes on historical textiles (in collaboration with the National Museum of Scotland). He uses a variety of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques for the characterisation of materials in support of conservation treatments and for the understanding of painting technique and his main research interests include the analysis of natural products (such as oils, varnishes and dyestuffs) and the investigation of their deterioration.

Research Partners

Ingrid Daubechies

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

Ingrid Daubechies earned her Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In addition to her commitment to educating and mentoring the next generation of mathematicians, Ingrid continues to break ground in mathematics research and expand its impact outside of her discipline focusing on the analysis of signals and inverse problems in a wide range of settings with applications ranging from fMRI and geophysics to paleontology and the study of fine art paintings.

Barak Sober

Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor, Mathematics Department and Rhodes Information Initiative, Duke University

Barak received his B.Sc. (2009) in Mathematics and Philosophy, M.Sc (2014), and Ph.D. (2019) in Applied Mathematics all from Tel-Aviv University. His research ranges between analysis of high dimensional data from a geometric and statistical perspective and the application of mathematical and statistical methods in biblical archaeology and art investigation.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Cerys Jones

Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL EE

Cerys Jones received her MMath degree in mathematics from Cardiff University in 2015, her MRes degree in science and engineering in art, heritage and archaeology from UCL in 2016, and her PhD in multispectral imaging and image processing at UCL in 2020. Her current research topics include image processing, machine learning and scientific imaging (multispectral, hyperspectral and x-ray fluorescence).

Junjie Huang

Postdoctoral Researcher at ICL EE

Junjie Huang is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Communications and Signal Processing Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, advised by Professor Pier Luigi Dragotti. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Imperial College London in 2019. His research interests include signal/image processing, computer vision and deep learning.

Nathan Daly

Postdoctoral Researcher at NG

Nathan Daly received a PhD in chemistry from Columbia University and, prior to joining the ARTICT team, was a postgraduate fellow at the Getty Conservation Institute. His research interests are in the use of various noninvasive spectroscopic mapping and imaging techniques in the cultural heritage field, as well as multivariate statistical methods to better interrogate these datasets.

Wei Pu

Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL EE

Wei Pu received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2012 and 2018, respectively. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Visiting Student with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Newton International Fellowship from the Royal Society, UK. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar, sparse signal processing, deep learning and its application on art investigation problem.

PhD students

Chao Zhou

PhD student at UCL EE

Chao Zhou received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from the Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2015, his M.S. degree in communication and information engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. His current research interests include deep learning, image processing, linear inverse problem, hyper-spectral image processing.

Maria Villafane

PhD student at ICL EE

Maria Villafane is a computational geometry designer working towards a PhD in communications and signal processing, in a project on computer vision for the arts: Multimodal image registration of Old Masters paintings. She has a background in architecture and structural engineering.

Su Yan

PhD student at ICL EE

Su Yan received his MSc degree in Communication Engineering with distinction from The University of Manchester and BEng degree in Communication Engineering from Jilin University. His research interests include Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) sampling theory, inverse problems and MA-XRF spectrum deconvolution. He is currently working on image processing for art investigation.

Other team members

Hojung (Ashley) Kwon

Duke University

Hojung (Ashley) Kwon graduated from Duke with a BS degree in Computer Science and an AB degree in Art History in December 2021. Since February 2022 she has been working as an intern at the Information Initiative at Duke on building a digital art restoration website under the supervision of Ingrid Daubechies. She will be joining Brown University's Computer Science PhD program in September 2022. Her project in the ARTICT team aimed to identify, based on the pigment maps, original and retouched areas in paintings and shed light on its conservation and restoration history.

Wallace Peaslee

Duke University

Wallace Peaslee is an undergraduate majoring in mathematics and computer science at Duke University. Within ARTICT, his focus is on extracting underdrawings, especially by developing methods and automated tools that utilize hyperspectral images.

Contacts

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