Record and reproduce the Thai mural with 2.5D printing technique and stereo matching technology

Thai mural painting is a painting that represent Thai culture. It’s popularly paint in the Buddhist building. The style and method of painting depends on the skill of the artist that is accumulated by generation. It reflects the painting techniques, knowledge, and unique identify.  Currently, Thai murals are damaged and obliterated. The paint layer deteriorates, bulges, deteriorates, flakes off the wall. The main reason for the deterioration or damage of Thai mural paintings is from natural causes. Humidity from air and ground, flooding, temperature, heat, including direct exposure to images, scratching, writing, improper repairs or additions. Lack of proper care and attention including unscientific conservation, as well as a lack of manpower and capital to operate. As a result, some Thai murals have deteriorated, faded, and destroyed. Repairing and conserving Thai murals is hard to do and requires high budget. It also requires high skill in combination with modern techniques to recover the painting and maintain it. This project aims at applying stereo matching technique of photography to record the quality of murals, improve, edit, and reproduce the murals to help save Thai murals in digital form. It can save the identity and features of the painting including images, lines, colors, and textures of the painting. The murals are reproduced by 2.5D printing techniques that are dimensions, shallow depth, texture, showing identity. and the skill of the artist is close to the original.