Liu, ZishunDoubrovski, Eugeni L.Geraedts, Jo M. P.Wang, WentingYam, YeungWang, Charlie C. L.Babaei, VahidSkouras, Melina2023-05-032023-05-032023978-3-03868-209-71017-4656https://doi.org/10.2312/egs.20231000https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/egs20231000In this paper, we propose a method to reconstruct a digital 3D model of a stolen/damaged statue using photogrammetric methods. This task is challenging because the number of available photos for a stolen statue is in general very limited - especially the side/back view photos. Besides using standard structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo methods, we match image pairs with low overlap using sliding windows and maximize the normalized cross-correlation (NCC) based patch-consistency so that the image pairs can be well aligned into a complete model to build the 3D mesh surface. Our method is based on the prior of the planar side on the statue's pedestal, which can cover a large range of statues. We hope this work will motivate more research efforts for the reconstruction of those stolen/damaged statues and heritage preservation.Attribution 4.0 International LicenseCCS Concepts: Computing methodologies → Reconstruction; Mesh modelsComputing methodologies → ReconstructionMesh models10.2312/egs.202310001-44 pages