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

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    • Geomemories a Spatial-Temporal Atlas of the Italian Landscape 

      Marchetti, A.; Hast, Anders; Rapisarda, B.; Shepherd, E. J.; Tesconi, M. (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      The AeroFototeca Nazionale of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage in Rome maintains an extensive set of some million aerial photographs constituting an important memory archive of the Italian territory throughout the ...

    • Reconstructing the Baths of Caracalla 

      Oetelaar, Taylor (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      This paper provides an overview of the digital restoration process of Rome's Baths of Caracalla using the parametric CAD package, SolidWorks. It will outline the major hurdles, their solutions, and benefits of the process ...

    • From 3D Acquisition to Augmented Reality: the case of the Charterhouse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (Gard, France) 

      Favre-Brun, Aurélie; Luca, Livio De; Florenzano, M. (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      The charterhouse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (Gard, France) was created by Pope Innocent VI in the XIVth century. Several times, it was transformed, like its church. Under the program 3D[Monuments] of the Ministry of Culture ...

    • Improving High-Speed Scanning Systems by Photometric Stereo 

      Larue, Frédéric; Dellepiane, Matteo; Scopigno, Roberto (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      High-speed scanning systems can be extremely valuable for Cultural Heritage applications, especially when large collections of small objects have to be acquired. However, fine details may not be acquired using this technology. ...

    • Connecting Information as Navigation Paths for Exploring Digital Video Collections 

      Damnjanovic, Uros; Hermon, Sorin (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      The way information is presented to users is of great importance in today's digital world. This is especially true for data collections that are rich in information that is not always easily understood. In this paper we ...

    • Very Important Faces: Yet Another Character Annotation Tool 

      Sá, Asla Medeiros e; Vasconcelos, Cristina Nader; Gonçalves, Martina Spohr; Carvalho, Paulo Cezar Pinto (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      This short paper describes the ongoing project of creating yet another character annotation tool, the Very Important Faces (V.I.F.) tool. Although the idea of character annotation is really not a new subject, off-the-shelf ...

    • Critical Review of 3d Digitization Methods and Techniques Applied to the Field of Architectural Heritage: Methodological and Cognitive Issues 

      Buglio, David Lo; Luca, Livio De (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      This article concentrates on the epistemological aspects of architectural survey. It offers a critical observation of the technologies used in the field of 3D digitization. More specifically, the study evaluates the way ...

    • THESAURUS: Techniques for Underwater Exploration and Archeology through Swarms of Autonomous Vehicles 

      Allotta, Benedetto; Caiti, Andrea; Cocco, Michele; Colombo, Carlo; Daviddi, Walter; Gualdesi, Lavinio; Monica, Denise La; Moroni, Davide; Pieri, Gabriele; Salvetti, Ovidio; Tampucci, Marco (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      The THESAURUS project (2011-2013) is financed by Regione Toscana (Italy) in the framework of the FAS program 2007-2013 under Deliberation CIPE (Italian government) 166/2007. The overall goal of THESAURUS project is to ...

    • Combining 3D Technologies in the Field of Cultural Heritage: Three Case Studies 

      Antlej, Kaja; Eric, Miran; avnik, Mojca; upanek, Bernarda; Slabe, Janja; Battestin, B. Borut (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      The advantages of 3D technologies (3D digitisation, visualisation, 3D printing...) are recognised by various professions in the field of cultural heritage (CH). Today these technologies have been technologically improved ...