Practical 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Artefacts from Photographs – Potentials and Issues

Authors

  • Dieter W. Fellner Graz University of Technology
  • Sven Havemann Graz University of Technology
  • Philipp Beckmann Graz University of Technology
  • Xueming Pan Graz University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2011.4564

Keywords:

3D reconstruction, Photogrammetry, 3D acquisition, 3D scanning, ARC3D, Meshlab

Abstract

A new technology is on the rise that allows the 3D-reconstruction of Cultural Heritage objects from image sequences taken by ordinary digital cameras. We describe the first experiments we made as early adopters in a community-funded research project whose goal is to develop it into a standard CH technology. The paper describes in detail a step-by-step procedure that can be reproduced using free tools by any CH professional. We also give a critical assessment of the workflow and describe several ideas for developing it further into an automatic procedure for 3D reconstruction from images.

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Author Biographies

Dieter W. Fellner, Graz University of Technology

Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization (CGV).
Fraunhofer IGD and GRIS, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Sven Havemann, Graz University of Technology

Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization (CGV).

Philipp Beckmann, Graz University of Technology

Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization (CGV).

Xueming Pan, Graz University of Technology

Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization (CGV).

References

CROFTS N., DOERR M., GILL T., STEAD S., STIFF M.: Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, version 4.2 ed. CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group, June 2005. Also ISO/PRF 21127, available from cidoc.ics.forth.gr.

LONDON CHARTER INITIATIVE (HUGH DENARD): The london charter, June 2006. www.londoncharter.org.

PAN, X., BECKMANN, P., HAVEMANN, S., TZOMPANAKI, K., DOERR, M., FELLNER, D.W., A distributed Object Repository for Cultural Heritage, Proc. VAST 2010 conference, Eurographics Press, 2010

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Published

2011-05-20

How to Cite

Fellner, D. W., Havemann, S., Beckmann, P., & Pan, X. (2011). Practical 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Artefacts from Photographs – Potentials and Issues. Virtual Archaeology Review, 2(4), 95–103. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2011.4564

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 4 (2011)

Section

Articles

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