AUTOMATIC DAMAGE DETECTION FOR SENSITIVE CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES

Cultural Heritage Sites in Danger - Towards Automatic Damage Detection from Space

The intentional damages to local Cultural Heritage sites carried out in recent months by the Islamic State have received wide coverage from the media worldwide. Earth Observation data provide important information to assess these damages in such non-accessible areas, and automated image processing techniques would be needed to speed up the analysis if a fast response is desired. This paper show...

Iraq's cultural heritage: collateral damage.

Towards Automatic Modeling for Cultural Heritage Applications

Recent advances in the field of laser scanning technology along with the availability of more powerful computing resources have favoured the increasing interest of surveyors, architects, archaeologists towards laser scanners as a very promising alternative for cultural heritage surveying. Thousands of points can be acquired in a few seconds with an accuracy that is adequate to build 3D models f...

Semi-automatic Detection of Cultural Heritage in Lidar Data

This paper presents new methods for the semi-automatic detection of some kinds of cultural heritage in forested areas in Norway, and reports on a work in progress. Some areas have a large number of old pitfall traps that were used for deer hunting 2000-500 years ago. Other areas have a large number of iron production sites that were in use 1400-700 years ago. These two kinds of cultural heritag...

Realistic Walkthrough of Cultural Heritage Sites-Hampi

In this paper we discuss the framework for a realistic walkthrough of cultural heritage sites. The framework includes 3D data acquisition, different data processing steps, coarse to fine 3D reconstruction and rendering to generate realistic walkthrough. Digital preservation of cultural heritage sites is an important area of research since the accessibility of state of the art techniques in comp...