VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage - Short and Project Papers: Recent submissions

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    • ViSMan-DHER: a Virtual Archaeology Application for Visualization and Management of Archaeological Data Related to ancient Herculaneum (NA), Italy 

      Coralini, Antonella; Guidazzoli, Antonella; Corlàita, Daniela Scagliarini; Toffalori, Elena (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      This work aims at presenting a case-study application of ViSMan (Visual Scenarios Manager), an opensource framework developed at Cineca for visualization and interaction with virtual scientific models connected to digital ...

    • Architectural 3D Modeling for a 3D GIS Web-Based System 

      Apollonio, Fabrizio I.; Gaiani, Marco; Baldissini, Simone (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      We describes a 3D GIS system entirely founded on Google Earth (GE), designed to make available on this platform high-quality 3D models of one of the architect Andrea Palladio, conceived as a metaphor for navigating through ...

    • Automation in Multi-Image Spherical Photogrammetry for 3D Architectural Reconstructions 

      Barazzetti, Luigi; Fangi, Gabriele; Remondino, Fabio; Scaioni, Marco (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The derivation of 3D metric information from spherical images for interactive exploration and realistic 3D modeling is receiving great attention due to their high-resolution content, large field-of-view, lowcost, easiness, ...

    • Dense Point Cloud Acquisition via Stereo Matching Applied to: the Kilwa Archaeological Site and the Gallo-Roman Theatre of Mandeure 

      Hullo, Jean-François; Grussenmeyer, Pierre; Assali, Pierre; Smigiel, Eddie (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      In this paper, we present a methodology for Dense Stereo Matching (DStM) acquisition and processing. Two main applications are detailed. In our application sites, many constraints led us to choose DStM. In the archaeological ...

    • 3D-Digitization of the ''Wild Goat'' Vases 

      Kolin, David; Joly, Morwena (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The wild-goat vases are a style of Greek vases that have been crafted between the 7th and 6th century BC. The 3D-digitization of these vases has been ongoing at the C2RMF for a few years now. Different scanning techniques ...

    • Extending Physical Collections Into the Virtual Space of a Digital Dome 

      Handron, Kerry; Jacobson, Jeffrey (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The Earth Theater at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Carnegie MNH) in Pittsburgh is an all-digital partial dome display, an immersive theater. Our current offerings include an Egyptian temple, a virtual dinosaur ...

    • Snapshot Augmented Reality - Augmented Photography 

      Zöllner, Michael; Becker, Mario; Keil, Jens (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      With the current generation of smartphones augmented reality (AR) finally gets in the hands of end users. This is a giant leap for cultural heritage presentation. But due to software and hardware limitations of consumer ...

    • 3D Digitizing and Visualizing a Prehistoric Portable Art Object: a 12,000 Years Old "Bâton Percé" 

      Subsol, Gerard; Bourdin, Pierre; Duranthon, Francis; Braga, J. (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      In this paper, we present some results on 3D digitizing and visualizing a prehistoric portable art object. This 12,000 years old artifact was scanned with a surface scanner and with two volume scanners. With this last ...

    • Exploring Contemporary Painting through Spatial Annotations Using RFID Tags 

      Haberman, Olivier; Damala, Areti; Pellerin, Romain; Haberman, Ugo; Gressier-Soudan, Eric (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      One of the least explored RFID application-domains concerns the areas of entertainment and culture. This paper proposes a mobile application -conceived for and with a contemporary artist- allowing the spatial annotation ...

    • 3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites Using Photogrammetry 

      Dutailly, Bruno; Mora, Pascal; Vergnieux, Robert (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The 3D reconstructionof an archaeological site is a difficult task, taking into account the available documentation. Our team, supported by the TGE Adonis, is specialized in 3D reconstruction and conservation of 3D data. ...

    • Virtual Reality for the Exploitation of Houses and Historical Gardens - The Example of Villa Arconati 

      Ceconello, Mauro; Spallazzo, Davide (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The virtualisation project of Villa Arconati is part of the process involved in organising the aristocratic houses north of Milan. The project aims to test the use of virtual reality as an instrument of exploitation and ...

    • 3D Pipeline from Data Acquisition to Data Visualization of the Hellenistic-Roman Theatre of Paphos 

      Gabrielli, Roberto; D'Andrea, Andrea; Angelini, Andrea; Amico, Nicola; Iannone, Giancarlo; Georgiou, Ropertos (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      In this paper is described the fusion of two different technologies for the three dimensional acquisition of the Hellenistic-Roman Theatre of Paphos located at the island of Cyprus. A laser scanner and an innovative device ...

    • Graph-based 3D Visualization of Color Content in Paintings 

      Colantoni, Philippe; Thomas, Jean-Baptiste; Pillay, Ruven (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Visualization of the color content of a painting can help to better understand the style, compositional structure and material content. There are several ways to visualize colorimetric data from a color image. One option ...

    • Le Corbusier in Bogota 1947-1951: Designing a VR Experience 

      Trujillo, Jhon Alejandro Triana; Figueroa, Pablo Alejandro Pablo; Peñaloza, José Tiberio Hernández (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      "Le Corbusier en Bogotá: 1947-1951" is a public exhibition that is being held in two different Museums in Bogota, and celebrates the work of this great architect in planning the urban area of the city. We have developed a ...

    • Virtual Replication of the Idalion Tablet 

      Robin, Bertille; Hilpert, Thibaut; Miyazawa, Keisuke; Callet, Patrick; Contencin, François-Xavier de; Zymla, Anna (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The Idalion Tablet is an antique bronze (480-470 BC) found around 1850 in the antique city of Idalion in Cyprus. It has an important historical value for Cyprus, as it is the longest testimony of Cyprus sillabary writing. ...

    • A Virtual Tour of the Walls of Nicosia: An Assessment of Children's Experience and Learning Performance 

      Michael, Despina; Zaharias, Panagiotis; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Modern-day museums employ technologically advanced methods and equipment to facilitate the dissemination of information and education of their visitors. Such a system is installed at the Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia. ...

    • Virtual Institutions for Preserving and Simulating the Culture of Mount Bego's Ancient People 

      Ancona, Massimo; Mascardi, Viviana; Quercini, Gianluca; Bogdanovych, Anton; Lumley, Henry De; Papaleo, Laura; Simoff, Simeon; Traverso, Antonella (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The Alps of southeastern France, better known as the Valley of Marvels, hide an impressive collection of engravings, mostly visible on the rocks around Mount Bego, which are irreplaceable witnesses of what life of the ...

    • Using Abstract Model Representations to Complete Three Dimensional Scans of Architectural Space 

      Xu, Chen; Rushmeier, Holly (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Three dimensional scanners can be used to create models of architectural spaces. The resulting models often have missing elements because it is impossible to place the scanner in positions to view all surfaces.Missing ...

    • The V & A's mysterious Mamluk minbar 

      Harris, Russell; Jimenez, Carlos (The Eurographics Association, 2012)
      This paper concentrates on the historical importance of a large furniture object, a pulpit from a mosque (minbar). During the development of 3D imaging practice in the V&A Museum, this large object was selected as a candidate ...

    • Towards a Vitruvian Shape Grammar for Procedurally Generating Classical Roman Architecture 

      Noghani, Jeremy; Anderson, Eike Falk; Liarokapis, Fotis (The Eurographics Association, 2012)
      The ability to automatically generate urban virtual environments using procedural methods is important for anyone who needs to create plausible virtual representations of human settlements, and these techniques are used ...