A preliminary study for a marker-based crack monitoring in ancient structures

Historical buildings are undeniably valuable documents of the history of the world. Their preservation has attracted considerable attention among modern societies, being a major issues both from economical and cultural point of view. This paper describes how image processing and marker-based application may support the long-term monitoring of crack patterns in the context of cultural heritage preservation, with a special focus on ancient structures. In detail, this work includes a state of the art about the most used techniques in structural monitoring, a description of the proposed methodology and the experimentation details. A discussion about the results and future works concludes the paper.