Digitization
Capturing cultural-heritage material
Two multispectral camera systems and a scanning robot, each suited to different sources — available on request and often loaned to partner projects.
Multispectral imaging (TU Wien)
Two distinct multispectral imaging (MSI) systems from the TU Wien Computer Vision Lab, for recovering text and detail invisible to the naked eye — palimpsests, underwriting, faded or damaged sources.
XpeCAM
A portable, filter-based MSI system (350–1200 nm, 30 filters) that needs no darkroom — for manuscripts, paintings, palimpsests and underwriting detection. Entry in the federal research-infrastructure database →
MISHA
An open-source MSI system optimized for flat archive materials (manuscripts, books) — highly portable and quick to set up on site. Entry in the federal research-infrastructure database →
See how a borrowed MISHA system recovered faded text on medieval charters →
Available upon request. Contact: Florian Kleber, TU Wien Computer Vision Lab — kleber@cvl.tuwien.ac.at.
Robotic scanning (University of Innsbruck)
A prototype robotic scanner for fragile loose-leaf collections that conventional feed scanners cannot handle — proven on 400,000 registration cards from the Tyrolean State Archive at over 99% success, running largely unattended.
Contact: Günter Mühlberger, University of Innsbruck — guenter.muehlberger@uibk.ac.at.
Borrowable inference GPUs
Currently two NVIDIA DGX Spark units — compact desktop AI supercomputers that can be borrowed, often together with the digitization equipment, to test inference tasks on site (for example combining a model with a capture workflow). Detailed specifications to follow.
Contact: Günter Mühlberger, University of Innsbruck (who also coordinates the digitization equipment) — guenter.muehlberger@uibk.ac.at.