Browsing GCH 2017 - Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage by Title

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    • The Fabricated Diorama: Tactile Relief and Context-aware Technology for Visually Impaired Audiences 

      Samaroudi, Myrsini; Echavarria, Karina Rodriguez; Song, Ran; Evans, Roger (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      The recent popularity of digital fabrication has stimulated cultural heritage professionals to utilise such technologies for a variety of processes, including the creation of digitally fabricated handling objects. The ...

    • From Paper to Web: Automatic Generation of a Web-Accessible 3D Repository of Pottery Types 

      Dellepiane, Matteo; Callieri, Marco; Banterle, Francesco; Arenga, Domenico; Zallocco, Massimo; Scopigno, Roberto (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      3D web repositories are a hot topic for the research community in general. In the Cultural Heritage (CH) context, 3D repositories pose a difficult challenge due to the complexity and variability of models and to the need ...

    • Histogram of Oriented Gradients for Maya Glyph Retrieval 

      Feldmann, Felix; Bogacz, Bartosz; Prager, Christian; Mara, Hubert (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Deciphering the Maya writing is an ongoing effort that has already started in the early 19th century. Inexpertly-created drawings of Maya writing systems resulted in a large number of misinterpretations concerning the ...

    • Hybrid Virtual Reality Touch Table - An Immersive Collaborative Platform for Public Explanatory Use of Cultural Objects and Sites 

      Sundén, Erik; Lundgren, Ingemar; Ynnerman, Anders (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      In this work we present an interactive and immersive solution for scientific data exploration which target visitors to museums and science centers, where the visitors themselves can conduct self-guided tours of scientific ...

    • An Inclusive Approach to Digital Heritage: Preliminary Achievements Within the INCEPTION Project 

      Maietti, Federica; Medici, Marco; Piaia, Emanuele (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      At the end of the second year of activity and after having completed the first steps in the development of its main goals, the project "INCEPTION - Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D Semantic Modelling" is ...

    • An Introductory Video Generator for Disseminating Cultural Heritage Projects 

      Wang, Zeyu; Akoglu, Kiraz; Rushmeier, Holly (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      There are many different activities in cultural heritage research, such as digitization, data visualization, information analysis, and dissemination. Much effort has been made to develop better technologies for data capture ...

    • Kyrenia - Hyper Storytelling Pilot Application 

      Rizvic, Selma; Boskovic, Dusanka; Okanovic, Vensada; Sljivo, Sanda (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      A team of multidisciplinary experts from computer science, visual arts, literature, film directing, psychology, communicology and human computer interaction developed a new interactive digital storytelling method - hyper ...

    • Little Manila: A Digital Recreation 

      Salyers, Joshua; Cliburn, Daniel; Sparks, Edith; Culilap, Jamie Lynn; Kuo, Sarah; Sabbatino, Kyle; Sanchez, Ronnie; Thomasson, Danielle; Tvergyak, Hannah (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Little Manila was once a vibrant Filipino community in Stockton, California, decimated by a freeway construction project that began in the 1960s and took nearly three decades to complete. This paper describes our initial ...

    • Multisensory Virtual Experience of Tanning in Medieval Coventry 

      Dong, Yuanfa; Webb, Mark; Harvey, Carlo; Debattista, Kurt; Chalmers, Alan (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      In the medieval period, Coventry, in the English Midlands was a major centre for tanning as well as for its better-known cloth industry. Heavily damaged during the Second World War, and unsympathetically rebuilt in the ...

    • Multispectral RTI Analysis of Heterogeneous Artworks 

      Giachetti, Andrea; Ciortan, Irina Mihaela; Daffara, Claudia; Pintus, Ruggero; Gobbetti, Enrico (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      We propose a novel multi-spectral reflectance transformation imaging (MS-RTI) framework for the acquisition and direct analysis of the reflectance behavior of heterogeneous artworks. Starting from free-form acquisitions, ...

    • OpenREC: A Framework for 3D Reconstruction of Models from Photographs 

      Arroyo, Germán; Martín, Domingo (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      In this paper we introduce openREC to the scientific community, an extendable framework for reconstruction of 3D models from photographs. This system provides a framework designed for archaeologist, art restorers, architects, ...

    • Pairwise Matching of Stone Tools Based on Flake-Surface Contour Points and Normals 

      Xi, Yang; Matsuyama, Katsutsugu; Konno, Kouichi (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Stone tools constitute the main artifacts facilitating archaeological research of the Paleolithic era. The reassembly of stone tools is the most important research work for analyzing human activities of that period. In ...

    • Projecting our Past to the Future - Challenges and Results: The Case of Asinou church 

      Papaefthymiou, M.; Nikolakopoulou, V.; Leventis, Georgios; Domajnko, M.; Ioannides, M.; Papagiannakis, G.; Santos, P. (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      In this paper, we present some of the novel results of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH) project, describing briefly the work done focusing on the project's first case study: ...

    • Reproduction of Gloss, Color and Relief of Paintings using 3D Scanning and 3D Printing 

      Elkhuizen, Willemijn S.; Essers, Tessa T. W.; Lenseigne, Boris; Weijkamp, Clemens; Song, Yu; Pont, Sylvia C.; Geraedts, Jo M.- P.; Dik, Joris (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      High fidelity reproductions of paintings provide new opportunities to museums in preserving and providing access to cultural heritage. This paper presents an integrated system which is able to capture and fabricate color, ...

    • Streamlining the Preparation of Scanned 3D Artifacts to Support Digital Analysis and Processing: the GRAVITATE Case Study 

      Mortara, Michela; Pizzi, Corrado; Spagnuolo, Michela (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Digitally acquired 3D models of cultural assets are not always ready for further processing. Sometimes, the digital surface presents geometric or topological defects that may hinder downstream surface analysis algorithms. ...

    • Towards Semi-Automatic Scaling Detection on Flat Stones 

      Muñoz-Pandiella, Imanol; Akoglu, Kiraz; Bosch, Carles; Rushmeier, Holly (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      In Cultural Heritage projects, it is very important to identify and track weathering effects on monuments in order to design and test conservation strategies. Currently, this mapping is manual work performed by experts ...

    • Visual Computing for Archaeological Artifacts with Integral Invariant Filters in 3D 

      Mara, Hubert; Krömker, Susanne (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      3D-artifacts from ancient civilizations contain many different kinds of information in form of forensic trace evidence, e.g., tool marks from styli or fingerprints on wax sealings. These very fine structures are increasingly ...

    • Visualization of ERT Data for Archaeological Purposes 

      Bernardes, Paulo; Alves, Mafalda; Pereira, Bruno; Madeira, Joaquim; Martins, Manuela; Fontes, Luis (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      This work presents a visualization methodology for the correct comprehension and interpretation of ERT data by archaeologists. The authors developed a methodology based not only in colour mapping and slicing techniques but ...