Browsing GCH 2016 - Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage by Title
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Digital Epigraphic Heritage Made Simple: an Android App for Exploring 3D Roman Inscriptions
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Spain keeps an exceptional epigraphic heritage, dated from the Roman civilization, that integrates thousands of Latin inscriptions nowadays disseminated along the Iberian peninsula. For many purposes such as education, ... -
Experience Etruria: a Cross-media Platform for E-culture and Tourism
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Experience Etruria aims at promoting the Italian Latium, Tuscany and Umbria regions starting from their common Etruscan roots, their landscape and food and wine wonders. The project includes a web portal, a downloadable ... -
Feature Identification in Archaeological Fragments Using Families of Algebraic Curves
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)A method is proposed to identify and localize semantic features like anatomical characteristics or decorations on digital artefacts or fragments, even if the features are partially damaged or incomplete. This technique is ... -
A Framework for Compact and Improved Panoramic VR Dissemination
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Panoramic capture devices in Cultural Heritage are becoming widely available to consumer market, also due to comfortable interactive online dissemination and to the growth of VR segment. VR fruition through an HMD although, ... -
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GRAVITATE: Geometric and Semantic Matching for Cultural Heritage Artefacts
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)The GRAVITATE project is developing techniques that bring together geometric and semantic data analysis to provide a new and more effective method of re-associating, reassembling or reunifying cultural objects that have ... -
Harvesting Dynamic 3D Worlds from Commodity Sensor Clouds
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)The EU FP7 FET-Open project ''Harvest4D: Harvesting Dynamic 3D Worlds from Commodity Sensor Clouds'' deals with the acquisition, processing, and display of dynamic 3D data. Technological progress is offering us a wide-spread ... -
Interactive 3D Exploration of a Virtual Sculpture Collection: an Analysis of User Behavior in Museum Settings
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)We present a usage analysis of an interactive system for the exploration of highly detailed 3D models of a collection of protostoric mediterranean sculptures. In this system, after selecting the object of interest inside ... -
Interdisciplinary Dialogue Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Optical Techniques for Recording Material Cultural Heritage - Results of a COST Action
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)The COST Transdomain Action TD1201, Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage [COSb], 2012-2016, contributes to the conservation and preservation of cultural heritage (CH) by enhancing shared understanding, between experts ... -
The Missing Scholarship Behind Virtual Heritage Infrastructures
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)This theoretical position paper outlines four key issues blocking the development of effective 3D models that would be suitable for the aims and objectives of virtual heritage infrastructures. It suggests that a real-time ... -
Multi-View Ambient Occlusion for Enhancing Visualization of Raw Scanning Data
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)The correct understanding of the 3D shape is a crucial aspect to improve the 3D scanning process, especially in order to perform high quality and as complete as possible 3D acquisitions on the field. The paper proposes a ... -
On-site AR Interface based on Web-based 3D Database for Cultural Heritage in Egypt
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)We have been developing a web-based 3D archiving system for supporting the diverse specialties and nationalities needed for carrying out the survey and restoration work of the archaeological project at the Mastaba of Idout ... -
A Practical Reflectance Transformation Imaging Pipeline for Surface Characterization in Cultural Heritage
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)We present a practical acquisition and processing pipeline to characterize the surface structure of cultural heritage objects. Using a free-form Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) approach, we acquire multiple digital ... -
Reflecting on European History with the Help of Technology: The CrossCult Project
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)History, and in particular European history, is not merely a collection of unconnected events, but rather a complex mesh of interrelated facts, events and concepts, taking place within a wider context of previous and ... -
Representation and Visualization of Urban Fabric through Historical Documents
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Documents serve an important role in understanding change in urban fabric. The available multidimensional (spatial, temporal and thematic) information in these documents narrate not only the various features of the elements ... -
Scan4Reco: Towards the Digitized Conservation of Cultural Heritage Assets via Spatiotemporal (4D) Reconstruction and 3D Printing
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)The European Cultural Heritage includes a rich variety of cultural items and a significant amount of resources is devoted to their conservation and dissemination to the public. Living in the era of digitization, these ... -
Semantic Structuring and 3D Modeling of Masonry Structure
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Studies of architectural heritage require tight control over spatial data. It is an prerequisite for the representation, analysis, conservation and structural restoration of architectural heritage. As regards the morphology ... -
A Soft Union based Method for Virtual Restoration and 3D Printing of Cultural Heritage Objects
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Recent improvements in 3D acquisition and shape processing methods lead to increased digitization of 3D Cultural Heritage (CH) objects. Beyond the mere digital archival of CH artifacts, there is an emerging research area ... -
Toward a Multimodal Photogrammetric Acquisition and Processing Methodology for Monitoring Conservation and Restoration Studies
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)Close-range photogrammetry is nowadays a common technique applied to acquire 3D data on Cultural Heritage (CH) artifacts. Image-based modeling are indeed providing useful resources for the documentation and the conservation ... -
Using Flash Photography and Image-Based Rendering to Document Cultural Heritage Artifacts
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)A novel image-based rendering system is proposed for documenting cultural heritage artifacts. The system utilizes backscattering photography to acquire the initial pictures and derives estimates for the object's diffuse ...