• Novel Application of 3D Documentation Techniques at a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico 

  Rissolo, Dominique; Blank, Alberto Nava; Petrovic, Vid; Arce, Roberto Chavez; Jaskolski, Corey; Erreguerena, Pilar Luna; Chatters, James C. (IEEE, 2015)

  The submerged cave site of Hoyo Negro, located along the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, contains a diverse fossil assemblage of extinct megafauna as well as a nearly complete human skeleton. The remote nature of the ...

• Nuragic Sacred Well of Santa Cristina in Sardinia - From the 3D Survey Analysis to Labour Investment 

  Vico, Lola; Hermon, Sorin (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper relates an ongoing research carrying out at the Cyprus Institute -STARC, focusing on the mobilization of labour required for Santa Cristina sacred well construction, during the Bronze Age period of The Nuragic ...

• The Chimu Offerings - Integration of Applied Science and New Media in the Preservation and Dissemination of Prehispanic Heritage 

  Vilca, Cecilia; Castillo, Luis Enrique; Velasquez, Gladys Ocharan; Sarmento, Marco (IEEE, 2015)

  Example of integration of disciplines and professionals that use different technologies as part of the research process, recovery and revalorization of one of the major collections of metals of prehispanic heritage of Peru. ...

• Crowd-sourcing the 3D Digital Reconstructions of Lost Cultural Heritage 

  Vincent, Matthew; Coughenour, Chance; Remondino, Fabio; Gutiérrez, Mariano Flores; Bendicho, Victor Manuel Lopez-Menchero; Fritsch, Dieter (IEEE, 2015)

  Crowd-sourced photogrammetric reconstructions offer a unique opportunity for the digital visualisation of lost heritage. Project Mosul is a project that seeks to digitally reconstruct lost heritage, whether through war, ...

• Minor Harbours of the East Coast of Ireland 

  Shotton, Elizabeth (IEEE, 2015)

  Considerable progress in the engineering of maritime structures occurred between the 18th and 20th centuries in Ireland. While major harbours have been well documented, there remain considerable structures that due to their ...

• OCHRE a Powerful Tool for Culture Historical Research - A Chronological Model for Historical Roads and Paths 

  Vletter, Willem (IEEE, 2015)

  In this paper the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) will be presented as a tool that facilitates the dating of historical roads and paths. It is makes use of extracted roads and paths from Airborne ...

• PATRINAT - The Drawings in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Towards a Digitized Heritage 

  Thierry, Laugee (IEEE, 2015)

  The PATRINAT project mainly focuses on the cataloging, digitization and dissemination of the drawings and engravings composing the collection of drawings given by Buffon to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Those ...

• Recovering the History of Bergen Belsen Using an Interactive 3D Reconstruction in a Mixed Reality Space: the Role of Pre-knowledge on Memory Recollection 

  Oliva, Laura Serra; Mura, Anna; Betella, Alberto; Martinez, Enrique; Verschure, Paul (IEEE, 2015)

  The question addressed by our work is twofold: On the one hand we want to contribute to the preservation of the Holocaust cultural heritage using digital technology, on the other hand, we want to investigate the impact of ...

• Digitizing the Culture of Beijing - An Introduction of the Memories of Beijing Project 

  Liang, Jihong; Ma, Linqing; Wu, Yunpeng (IEEE, 2015)

  The Memories of Beijing project is an effort that aims at identification, representing, and disseminating the rich culture of Beijing, the capital city of China, via the employment of digital technologies. This proposal ...

• A Light Carbon Crane as an Alternative Approach for Vertical Structures and Facade Surveying 

  Saleri, Renato; Lequay, Hervé; Luca, Livio De (IEEE, 2015)

  Aerial surveying is, since more than 100 years, a huge field of research and application in the domain of architecture, archeology and, besides, cultural heritage. Increasing operational capabilities of recent UAV platforms, ...

• Comparison of Normalized Transfer Functions for Fast Blending-based Color Correction of Scans Acquired Under Natural Conditions 

  Schenkel, Arnaud; Debeir, Olivier (IEEE, 2015)

  This work deals with the multiview colorization of large site acquired during rapid survey conducted in natural uncontrolled climatic and light conditions. Image stitching and weighting methods are adapted to perform fine ...

• Application of georeferenced Archaeological Information Systems for Archaeological Digital Heritage - The Auxiliary Fortress of Carnuntum (Lower Austria) 

  Wallner, Mario; Juan, Torrejón Valdelomar; Neubauer, Wolfgang; Kucera, Matthias; Brandtner, Joachim; Sandici, Vlad (IEEE, 2015)

  Non-destructive prospection methods provide a powerful toolbox to explore Archaeological Heritage while it is still protected untouched below the actual surface. Due to recent technical developments in high resolution large ...

• Optimizing UAV Systems for Rapid Survey and Reconstruction of Large Scale Cultural Heritage Sites 

  Meyer, Dominique; Fraijo, Elioth; Lo, Eric Kwok Cheung; Rissolo, Dominique; Kuester, Falko (IEEE, 2015)

  Recording geometrically and aesthetically accurate models of cultural heritage sites is important for both their conservation and understanding of historical importance. Rapid imaging systems are required to capture models ...

• A Comparison of Digital Modelling Techniques Analyzing a Section of Qhapaq Ñan 

  Retamozo, Saúl; Zvietcovich, Fernando; Arce, Diego; Quintana, Matias; Angeles, Sergio; Castañeda, Benjamin; Aguilar, Rafael (IEEE, 2015)

  Total Station has been one of the most common acquisition devices for achieving maps through topographic survey. Nowadays, Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and Photogrammetry are commonly used to generate accurate meshes. ...

• 3D Reconstruction with Fisheye Images: Strategies to Survey Complex Heritage Buildings 

  Covas, João; Ferreira, Victor; Mateus, Luís (IEEE, 2015)

  Over the last few decades photogrammetry and laser scanning have been frequently considered valuable tools for creating three-dimensional models from which metric and radiometric information can be derived for the survey ...

• Photogrammetric Surveying and Stereotomy - The East Hall of the Palace of Charles V in Granada 

  Galera, Macarena Salcedo; López, José Calvo; Kalpeshbhai, Anand Shah (IEEE, 2015)

  Photogrammetry is increasingly becoming a widely used architectural heritage surveying method. This technique is specifically suitable for geometric and stereotomic analysis of masonry pieces. This paper describes a survey ...

• The Virtual Reconstruction of the Minaret of Mansourah Mosque (Algeria) 

  Morena, Sara (IEEE, 2015)

  This contribution synthetically addresses some of the photogrammetric solutions available today in the field of architectural-archaeological survey and the related applications outcome, evaluated during both the acquisition ...

• Geometry to Web - Jaen's Cathedral 

  Tirado, Gregorio Soria; Alvarado, Lidia Ortega; Higaruela, Francisco R. Feito (IEEE, 2015)

  In this paper we describe the methodology carried out in the Cathedral of Jaén (Spain) during the scanning, processing of the resulting point clouds and the post-processing into a three-dimensional model. The virtual ...

• Bringing Collections to the Digital Era - 3 Examples of Integrated High Resolution Digitisations Projects 

  Mathys, Aurore; Brecko, Jonathan; Spiegel, Didier Van den; Cammaert, Laurence; Semal, Patrick (IEEE, 2015)

  One of the primary concerns of museums nowadays is the digitisation of the collection to enhance conservation, accessibility and dissemination. We present in this paper 3 examples of collection digitisations carried out ...

• Representation of the Santander Cathedral by Combination of Different Smart Techniques 

  Cosido, Óscar J.; Terán, Leticia; Campi, Massimiliano; Catuogno, Raffaele; Ruiz, Óscar; Sendino, Jesús M.; Sarabia, Pedro; Pereda, José; Iglesias, Andrés (IEEE, 2015)

  Inside Santander city, we find two different historical parts, ''la Puebla vieja'', oldest part of the city, where the cathedral is located and ''la Puebla nueva''. A research team has been created with two purposes: study ...

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