Melero, F.J.Torres, J.C.León, A.David Arnold and Alan Chalmers and Franco Niccolucci2014-01-312014-01-3120033-905673-08-81811-864Xhttps://doi.org/10.2312/VAST/VAST03/071-078Reconstructing vessels from sherds is a complex task, specially for hand made pottery. That is the case of the Iberian vessels. The reconstruction process can be done in three steps: orientation of the sherd, computing the symmetry axis and detecting the profile. This paper presents methods to accomplish these three tasks in a semi-automatic way. This algorithm has been implemented within a reconstruction application that has been successfully used to reconstruct Iberian pottery.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.8 [Computer Graphics]: Applications