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Item Editorial(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007) Duke, David; Scopigno, RobertoItem Mapping highly detailed color information on extremely dense 3D models: the case of David s restoration(The Eurographics Association, 2007) Dellepiane, Matteo; Callieri, Marco; Ponchio, Federico; Scopigno, Roberto; David B. Arnold and Andrej FerkoThe support of advanced Information Technology (IT) to preservation, restoration and documentation of Cultural Heritage is becoming a very important goal for the research community. Michelangelo's David was one of the first applications of 3D scanning technology on a highly popular work of art. The subsequent restoration campaign, started in 2002 and concluded in 2004, was also a milestone for the adoption of modern scientific analysis procedures and IT tools in the framework of a restoration process. One of the focuses in this restoration was also methodological, i.e. to plan and adopt innovative ways to document the restoration process. In this paper we present the results of an integration of different restoration data (2D and 3D datasets) which has been concluded recently. The recent evolution of HW and SW graphics technologies gave us the possibility to interactively visualize an extremely dense 3D model which incorporates the color information provided by two professional photographic campaigns, made before and after the restoration. Moreover, we present the results concerning the mapping, in this case on the 2D media, of the reliefs produced by restorers to assess and document the status of the marble surface before the restoration took place. This result could lead to new and fascinating applications of computer graphics for preservation, restoration and documentation of Cultural Heritage.Item Practical and Robust MLS-based Integration of Scanned Data(The Eurographics Association, 2008) Fiorin, Valentino; Cignoni, Paolo; Scopigno, Roberto; Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo ErraThe paper proposes a set of techniques for improving the quality of MLS surfaces reconstructed from point clouds that are composed by the union of many scanned range maps. The main idea of those techniques is that the range-map structure should be exploited during the reconstruction process and not lost in the uniform point soup that is usually fed into reconstruction algorithms; on this purpose a set of per-range-map weighting schemes are proposed. The presented weighting schemes allow to cope with some of the various issues that usually arise during the integration of point clouds composed by set of range maps, like tangible alignment errors, anisotropic error on sensor data and sensible difference in sampling quality.Item Editorial(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006) Duke, David; Scopigno, RobertoItem Exploiting the scanning sequence for automatic registration of large sets of range maps(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2005) Pingi, Paolo; Fasano, Andrea; Cignoni, Paolo; Montani, Claudio; Scopigno, RobertoItem Editorial(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006) Duke, David; Scopigno, RobertoItem Color Enhancement for Rapid Prototyping(The Eurographics Association, 2008) Cignoni, Paolo; Gobbetti, Enrico; Pintus, Ruggero; Scopigno, Roberto; Michael Ashley and Sorin Hermon and Alberto Proenca and Karina Rodriguez-EchavarriaWe propose to exploit the color capabilities of recent rapid prototyping hardware devices to enhance the visual appearance of reproduced objects. In particular, by carefully pre-computing surface shading, we are able to counterbalance the sub-surface scattering (SSS) effects that hinder the perception of fine surface details. As a practical result, we are able to reproduce small scale copies of cultural heritage artifacts with an increased readability of the tiniest features and particulars, without requiring manual post-reproduction interventions or hand paintingItem Computer Graphics forum(Blackwell Publishing, Inc and Eurographics Association, 2003) Duke, David; Scopigno, RobertoItem A Multiresolution Model for Soft Objects Supporting Interactive Cuts and Lacerations(Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 2000) Ganovelli, Fabio; Cignoni, Paolo; Montani, Claudio; Scopigno, RobertoPerforming a really interactive and physically-based simulation of complex soft objects is still an open problem in computer animation/simulation. Given the application domain of virtual surgery training, a complete model should be quite realistic, interactive and should enable the user to modify the topology of the objects. Recent papers propose the adoption of multiresolution techniques to optimize time performance by representing at high resolution only the object parts considered more important or critical. The speed up obtainable at simulation time are counterbalanced by the need of a preprocessing phase strongly dependent on the topology of the object, with the drawback that performing dynamic topology modification becomes a prohibitive issue. In this paper we present an approach that couples multiresolution and topological modifications, based on the adoption of a particle systems approach to the physical simulation. Our approach is based on a tetrahedral decomposition of the space, chosen both for its suitability to support a particle system and for the ready availability of many techniques recently proposed for the simplification and multiresolution management of 3D simplicial decompositions. The multiresolution simulation system is designed to ensure the required speedup and to support dynamic changes of the topology, e.g. due to cuts or lacerations of the represented tissue.Item Interactive Remote Exploration of Massive Cityscapes(The Eurographics Association, 2009) Benedetto, Marco Di; Cignoni, Paolo; Ganovelli, Fabio; Gobbetti, Enrico; Marton, Fabio; Scopigno, Roberto; Kurt Debattista and Cinzia Perlingieri and Denis Pitzalis and Sandro SpinaWe focus on developing a simple and efficient unified level-of-detail structure for networked urban model viewers. At the core of our approach is a revisitation of the BlockMap [CDG*07] data structure, originally introduced for encoding coarse representations of blocks of buildings to be used as direction-independent impostors when rendering far-away city blocks. The contribution of this paper is manifold: we extend the BlockMap representation to support sloped surfaces and input-sensitive sampling of color; we introduce a novel sampling strategy for building accurate BlockMaps; we show that BlockMaps can be used as a versatile and robust way to parameterize the visible surface of a highly complex model; we improve the expressiveness of urban models rendering by integrating an ambient occlusion term in the representation and describe an efficient method for computing it; we illustrate the design and implementation of a urban models streaming and visualization system and demonstrate its efficiency when browsing large city models in a limited bandwidth setting.