The goal of the "3D Icons" European Project, is to provide Europeana with accurate 3D models of Cultural Heritage artifacts. The purpose of this paper is to describe the specific optimized processing pipeline that has been ...

Three-dimensional (3D) measurement techniques are essential in digital archives of cultural heritage, and museums currently use various digital media content as interpretations of collections. Therefore, the author has ...

This paper presents two new developments for as-built BIM modeling of historical buildings. The first is a new library of interactive parametric objects designed for modeling classical architectural elements from survey ...

Effective documentation and display of ancient objects is an essential task in the field of cultural heritage conservation. Digitization plays an important role for the process of creating, preserving and accessing objects ...

Decision-making is a fundamental part of digital objects production in the field of digital heritage. We present in this paper our efforts on developing an application that will enable easy documentation of the decision-making ...

The Las Cuevas site is a Maya administrative and ceremonial center active during the latter part of the Late Classic period (700 900 AD) in Western Belize. It is of particular interest because a large cave resides directly ...

This paper describes the experimentation of a common multi-view stereo technique on a particularly complex test case: the ''Via Colonnata'' in the archaeological site of Kyme Eolica in Turkey. The study demonstrates that ...

Multidimensional databases constitute a handy solution to store and display data collected in the fields of conservation and restoration. However, knowledge on the current state of monuments depends on a heterogeneous ...

Existing technologies for contact-less 3D scanning and Image Based Modelling (IBM) methods are being extensively used nowadays to digitize cultural heritage elements. With a convenient degree of automation these methods ...

In Greek myth, Niobe was the queen of Thebes who displayed arrogance toward the goddess Leto and was punished by having to endure the death of her seven sons and seven daughters at the hands of Leto's children, Artemis and ...