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RecoStones: a New Tool to Identify Calabrian Stone Materials Through Image Processing

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In this work, we present RecoStones, a software tool developed within the SILPI project (acronym of “Sistema per l’Identificazione di Lapidei Per Immagini”) and financed by POR Calabria FESR-FSE 2014–2020. RecoStones is a smartphone app able to classify stone materials and to determine their provenance through image recognition techniques. The app was developed using a set of stone materials sampled from different Calabrian quarries with a particular historical and artistic value, and it was directly tested in situ on different local known materials belonging to monuments and buildings of the Calabrian Cultural Heritage. The testing phase confirmed that RecoStones is a useful, smart, and cheap tool which can help geologists and non-geologists, such as restorers, architects, art historians, engineers, and all the staff involved in restoration and conservation projects, to determine the typology of a stone material and its provenance. This work aims also to create the first database of the Calabrian quarries that may be expanded in the future with further Calabrian outcrops or further quarries located in other national or international contexts. Consequently, the app may be upgraded in order to recognize other stone materials, becoming a new tool of global interest.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Superintendence for the Cultural Heritage of the Calabria Region, for the support and authorizations granted to us for the sampling of the stone materials; thanks also to Vincenzo Ambrogio (CEA Costruzioni), Giuseppe Fontana (Fontana SRL), Madia Domenico (Madia Domenico SRL), Roberto Stasi (Marmi Stasi), Massimo Albanese, Claudio Spizzirri, Fabio Procopio, Maurizio Siviglia, and Murat Cura for providing some of the stone materials used for this work.

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This work was funded by the Calabria Region by “POR Calabria FESR-FSE 2014–2020, finanziamento di Progetti di Ricerca e Sviluppo, obiettivo specifico 1.2—Rafforzamento del Sistema Innovativo Regionale e Nazionale, Azione 1.2.2—Supporto alla realizzazione di Progetti Complessi di Attività di Ricerca e Sviluppo su poche Aree Tematiche di Rilievo e all’Applicazione di Soluzioni Tecnologiche Funzionali alla Realizzazione delle Strategie di S3.”

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  1. Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, via P. Bucci, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Raffaella De Luca, Donatella Barca, Andrea Bloise, Stefano Mariottini, Francesco Muto, Eugenio Piluso, Mirco Taranto & Domenico Miriello

  2. Restructura, Surveys for Cultural Heritage, Via Gerolamo de Rada, 87100, Cosenza, CS, Italy

    Marco Cappa & Daniela De Angelis

  3. Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering (DIMES), University of Calabria, via P. Bucci, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Giuseppe Fedele & Mauro Tropea

  4. Recogniform Technologies SpA, Contrada Concio Stocchi, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Davide Micieli & Francesco Pucino

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De Luca, R., Barca, D., Bloise, A. et al. RecoStones: a New Tool to Identify Calabrian Stone Materials Through Image Processing. Geoheritage 13, 41 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-021-00564-w

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