EAB Lunch Talk - The study of partial human impressions on terracotta artworks: a case study using micro-CT

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This Lunch Talk will present a procedure for scanning friction ridge impressions and toolmarks found on the visible surface and inner walls of a terracotta sculpture from the Rijksmuseum collection using 3D micro–computed tomography, as well as methods for quantitatively characterizing these impressions.

Curriculum vitæ

Dzemila Sero is Assistant Professor in Biometrics and Computer Vision at UTwente. Her research interests lie mainly in face and finger-/palmprint recognition. She developed her own research line on the analysis of friction ridge impressions found on the surface of artworks from the Rijksmuseum collection. Previously, she held a Migelien Gerritzen Fellowship in the Conservation & Science Department of the Rijksmuseum and a postdoctoral position at the the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands (CWI). She obtained her PhD in Engineering Science at KU Leuven with a thesis on face recognition from DNA predictable traits.

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