VAST07: The 8th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage

 

Recent Submissions

  • Using 3D Scanning to Analyze a Proposal for the Attribution of a Bronze Horse to Leonardo da Vinci 

    Dellepiane, Matteo; Callieri, Marco; Fondersmith, Mark; Cignoni, Paolo; Scopigno, Roberto (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    In this paper we present how technologies developed in the context of 3D graphics (3D scanning and image-to- 3D-model mapping) have been used to evaluate in a metrically objective way the plausibility of an attribution ...

  • Registration of Multi-Spectral Manuscript Images 

    Diem, Markus; Lettner, Martin; Sablatnig, Robert (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Two medieval Slavonic manuscripts are recorded, investigated and analyzed by philologists in collaboration with computer scientists. The aim of the project is to develop algorithms that support the philologists by automatically ...

  • GPU Spectral Viewer: Analysing Paintings from a Colorimetric Perspective 

    Colantoni, Philippe; Pitzalis, Denis; Pillay, Ruven; Aitken, Genevieve (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Over the last fifteen years, multipsectral imaging has gained in importance and interest, especially in the field of Cultural Heritage, art investigation and conservation. Extending the concept of scientific imagery such ...

  • Populating Ancient Pompeii with Crowds of Virtual Romans 

    Maim, Jonathan; Haegler, Simon; Yersin, Barbara; Mueller, Pascal; Thalmann, Daniel; Gool, Luc Van (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Pompeii was a Roman city, destroyed and completely buried during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius. We have revived its past by creating a 3D model of its previous appearance and populated it with crowds of Virtual ...

  • Developing Effective Interfaces for Cultural Heritage 3D Immersive Environments 

    Rodriguez, Karina; Morris, David; Moore, Craig; Arnold, David; Glauert, John; Jennings, Vince (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Although the advantages of the use of 3D Immersive Virtual Environments for the presentation and communica- tion of Cultural Heritage have been demonstrated, the user interfaces and interaction techniques (in software and ...

  • Designing Behaviour-rich Interactive Virtual Museum Exhibitions 

    Walczak, Krzysztof; Wiza, Wojciech R. (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    In this paper a new method of modelling and dynamic composition of behaviour-rich interactive 3D virtual museum exhibitions is described. The method enables museum experts, without advanced knowledge in computer programming, ...

  • A Pipeline for the Digitization and the Realistic Rendering of Paintings 

    Larue, Frederic; Ammann, Lucas; Dischler, Jean-Michel (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Digitization and visualization are both of great importance for Cultural Heritage, for instance for the design of virtual galleries. Despite a lot of research, enabling a real-time walkthrough around complex digital copies ...

  • High Dynamic Range Display of Authentically Illuminated Byzantine Art from Cyprus 

    Zanyi, Eva; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos; Bashford-Rogers, Tom; Chalmers, Alan (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    High-fidelity computer reconstructions of cultural heritage sites attempt to create a faithful representation of the past physical environment. This includes modeling the scene to high precision, and accurately simulating ...

  • Influencing Factors on the Visualisation of Archaeological Uncertainty 

    Sifniotis, Maria; Watten, Phil; Mania, Katerina; White, Martin (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    This paper presents further work on a 3D visualisation system for the reconstruction of historical structures which takes into account archaeological uncertainty. The uncertainty associated with an archaeologist s ...

  • Open Source and Open Standards for Using Integrated Geographic Data on the Web 

    Felicetti, Achille; Lorenzini, Matteo (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    This article describes the first results of our research concerning the developement of a complete Open Source system based on W3C and ISO 19100 standards to integrate and manage spatial and non-spatial archaeological ...

  • CIDOC-CRM Spider: Stonehenge as an Example of Semantic Data Integration 

    Sugimoto, Go; Felicetti, Achille; Perlingieri, Cinzia; Hermon, Sorin (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Since archaeology in particular and humanities in general are interdisciplinary disciplines, there is an imperious need to enhance the accessibility and harmonise data integration, given their varied resource types (books, ...

  • 3D-Powerpoint - Towards a Design Tool for Digital Exhibitions of Cultural Artifacts 

    Havemann, Sven; Settgast, Volker; Lancelle, Marcel; Fellner, Dieter W. (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    We describe first steps towards a suite of tools for CH professionals to set up and run digital exhibitions of cultural 3D artifacts in museums. Both the authoring and the presentation views shall finally be as easy to use ...

  • On Ancient Coin Classification 

    Zaharieva, Maia; Huber-Moerk, Reinhold; Noelle, Michael; Kampel, Martin (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Illegal trade and theft of coins appears to be a major part of the illegal antiques market. Image based recognition of coins could substantially contribute to fight against it. Central component in the permanent identification ...

  • ArcheoTUI - A Tangible User Interface for the Virtual Reassembly of Fractured Archeological Objects 

    Reuter, Patrick; Riviere, Guillaume; Couture, Nadine; Sorraing, Nicolas; Espinasse, Loïc; Vergnieux, Robert (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Cultural objects of archeological findings are often broken and fractured into a large amount of fragments, and the archeologists are confronted by 3D puzzles when reassembling the fractured objects. Scanning the fragments ...

  • Sense-Enabled Mixed Reality Museum Exhibitions 

    Liarokapis, Fotis; Newman, Robert M.; Mount, Sarah; Goldsmith, Dan; Macan, Luis; Malone, Garry; Shuttleworth, James (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    During the past few years museums and other cultural heritage institutions have started making use of handheld technologies to provide tourist guides to their visitors. For open-air sites, a number of experimental and ...

  • Interactive Augmented Experiences for Cultural Historical Events 

    Linaza, Maria Teresa; Cobos, Yolanda; Mentxaka, Jon; Campos, Miren Koro; Penalba, Mauro (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    This paper presents a project called Bidaiatzera based on Augmented Reality technologies for leisure and educational applications with tourist, cultural or socio-economic contents. Augmented Reality technologies provide a ...

  • Shape Capture Assisted by Traditional Tools 

    Rushmeier, Holly; Xu, Chen; Wang, Bing; Rushmeier, Russell; Dorsey, Julie (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    We present new techniques for capturing the shape of physical objects using simple tools. From a set of caliper distance measurements between object points, we reconstruct a three dimensional structure. We show that we can ...

  • Representing Appearance of Ancient Japanese Drawing Named Ukiyo-e 

    Yin, Xin; Cai, Kangying; Takeda, Yuki; Akama, Ryo; Tanaka, Hiromi T. (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
    Ukiyo-e is one traditional woodblock type Japanese drawing. Since it is made by special print technique and using Japanese paper which have very long fiber, Ukiyo-e show a beautiful appearance. In ancient age, the peerage ...