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    • Building Information Modelling and the Documentation of Architectural Heritage: between the typical and the specific 

      Fai, Stephen; Sydor, Mikael (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      One of the greatest challenges to using Building Information Modelling (BIM) for the documentation of architectural heritage is in overcoming the propensity of the software toward standardization. Most BIM applications are ...
    • Linking 3D Digital Surface Texture Data with Ancient Manufacturing Procedures 

      Almeida, Vera Moitinho de; Barceló, Juan Antonio; Rosillo, Rafel; Palomo, Antoni (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Surface texture is a key parameter in archaeological materials, where its study has been central to use-wear research, as well as in the understanding of manufacturing processes. Nowadays, 3D digital surface textures can ...
    • Aspects of the Digitalisation of the Documentation and Research of Lithuanian Historical Organs 

      Povilionis, Girenas; Povilioniene, Rima (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      About 450 historical organs have survived to the present day in Lithuania. Some of them are almost completely authentic instruments which constitute valuable heritage and have been recognised as being unique in European ...
    • Cellars of Paris, under the cobbles, cellars! 

      Sandron, Dany; Chaumet, Gregory (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      This project of systematic investigation of Parisian cellars is by nature pluri-disciplinary. It relies on the complementary skills of historians, architectural historians, archaeologists, architects and engineers. For ...
    • The virtual concreteness of the architectural project. Ideas and experimentations for a digital archive of the Italian Masters work of the 20th century 

      Albisinni, Piero; Carlo, Laura De; Kantas, Prokopios; Mancini, Matteo Flavio; Moscarelli, Alessia; Mulla, Erald (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      We propose to illustrate a methodological approach aimed to establish a "Digital archive of the Italian Masters work in the second half of the 20th century". To this end, we consider the architectural project from its ...
    • The Cathedral of Palermo: from survey to historic interpretation 

      Agnello, Fabrizio (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      The Norman kings built the Cathedral of Palermo at the end of the XII century, in the same place where an older Christian church and then a mosque were sited. Many features of the Cathedral echo the Norman churches in ...
    • Web Visualization of Complex Reality-Based 3D Models with Nubes 

      Palacios, Belen Jimenez Fernandez; Stefani, Chiara; Lombardo, Julie; Luca, Livio de; Remondino, Fabio (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      This paper discusses the fundamental issues of the real-time web-based visualization of complex reality-based 3D models. As web platform, we use NUBES, an innovative and powerful tool for sharing and analyzing reality-based ...
    • An easy-to-use multi-dimensional database for the management of cultural heritage buildings 

      Stefani, Chiara; Vallet, Jean-Marc; Luca, Livio De (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Multidimensional databases constitute a handy solution to store and display data collected in the fields of conservation and restoration. However, knowledge on the current state of monuments depends on a heterogeneous ...
    • A Model to anticipate and analyse Requirements of Heritage Organisations wishing to actively participate in Europeana 

      Muhammad, Naeem; Koutalieris, George; Streefkerk, Marco; Poot, Nathalie; Alloing, Sam; Wyns, Roxanne (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Heritage organisations wishing to participate in open and public aggregators such as Europeana, need to review and revise their own digital curation workflow processes in order to tackle both the technical integration as ...
    • The Late Medieval Street Layout of Vienna 

      Silvestru, Claudiu (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      The present day street layout in Vienna's historical center is a product of the construction boom in the 13th Century, being the city's most present and also unnoticed medieval heritage. At the end of the 12th Century the ...
    • Knowledge Cube 

      Alrawi, Osama (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Architectural identity, as an evolutionary chain of creative tradition, can only be sustained and revived from within, starting with a strengthening of these very internal processes and not by imposing external forms. ...
    • The patrimonialization process of advertising : from scorn and mistrust to documentary heritage, archive, and history 

      Armand, Cécile (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      This short essay aims at tracing the patrimonialization process of advertising from the 19th century to nowadays. The process followed third steps. First, advertising evolved from a despised object to a valuable cultural ...
    • Investigating a multi-paradigm system for the management of archaeological data: Corpus Lapidum Burgundiae 

      Leclercq, Eric; Savonnet, Marinette; Troya, Andres; Buttner, Stephane (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Scientific Information Systems (SIS) must move beyond data repositories and closed systems, to allow collaborations among different research disciplines, to include new types of data, to control data quality, and to enable ...
    • Placing Intangible Cultural Heritage 

      Karavia, Despoina; Georgopoulos, Andreas (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Over the last decades, the concept of Cultural Heritage has included Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), mainly due to UNESCO's initiatives. ICH is in danger of disappearance or degradation due to globalization, immigration, ...
    • Automatic localization of tombs in aerial imagery: application to the digital archiving of cemetery heritage 

      Chaumont, Marc; Tribouillard, Louis; Subsol, Gérard; Courtade, Florian; Pasquet, Jérôme; Derras, Mustapha (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      This paper deals with digital archiving of cemetery heritage. A built cemetery is a tangible evidence of historical and cultural periods through the style and the shape of tombs. It gives quantitative information on the ...
    • Image Fusion for Difference Visualization in Art Analysis 

      Blaµek, Jan; Zitova, Barbara; Flusser, Jan (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      A new method for difference visualization is presented, oriented on the art analysis application. Compared images are combined into one fused image without losing important image context. Dissimilar regions are highlighted ...
    • Portrait Sculptures of Augustus: Categorization via Local Shape Comparison 

      Lu, Min; Zhang, Yujin; Zheng, Bo; Masuda, Takeshi; Ono, Shintaro; Oishi, Takeshi; Sengoku-Haga, Kyoko; Ikeuchi, Katsushi (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      3D shape comparison with digital copies draws increasing attention in modern culture heritage studies. In this paper, we focus on analyzing portrait sculptures of Augustus with 3D scanned data. A feasible framework of ...
    • Tracing provenance of lost and found Cypriot Byzantine icons 

      Vassallo, Valentina; Kyriakou, Niki; Hermon, Sorin; Eliades, Ioannis (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      This paper presents an ongoing research on the development of a WebGIS tool, based on a formal knowledge representation, able to trace the spatio-temporal paths of Cypriot Byzantine icons. Many were looted in the past, ...
    • IFC and CityGML : going further than LOD 

      Tolmer, Charles-Edouard; Castaing, Christophe; Diab, Youssef; Morand, Denis (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      Modeling a built environment for any construction project or asset management is usually limited to a simple 3D visualization. Data and metadata related to modeled objects are not included sufficiently in the modeling, ...
    • Laser-Scanned Tree Stem Filtering for Forest Inventories Measurements 

      Ravaglia, Joris; Bac, Alexandra; Piboule, Alexandre (The Eurographics Association, 2013)
      With specific flora and fauna, regional landscapes and forests constitute an important part of the cultural heritage. Several natural environments have already been classified as national or regional parks. The UNESCO World ...