SFM TECHNIQUE AND FOCUS STACKING FOR DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS

Fast and detailed digital documentation of archaeological excavations and heritage artifacts

Prompted by the increasing requirement for the fast but precise and detailed digital documentation of archaeological excavations and heritage artifacts, in this article we report our latest experience in capturing detailed 3D geometric information of two sites in Tuscany, Italy, using the image-based approach. We present a 3D recording flow-line, based on multi-image matching, capable of retrie...

Conservation technologies for archaeological sites and artifacts

Uavs for the Documentation of Archaeological Excavations

UAV photogrammetry experienced a growing variety of diverse applications in different scientific disciplines. Comparable early, UAVs were deployed in the Cultural Heritage and Archaeology domains, mainly for the purpose of monument, building and landscape modelling. In this paper, we will focus on the investigation of UAV application for documenting archaeological excavations. Due to the fact, ...

Digitization and Reconstruction of Archaeological Artifacts

We describe an ongoing research project on efficient methods for reconstruction of objects from large collections of irregular fragments, such as ancient pottery, collapsed murals, etc.. Our solution for flat objects uses multiscale matching and constrained dynamic programming, and we are now extending it to curved pottery fragments. We seek collaborative projects with museums and other potenti...

Photogrammetry for Archaeological Documentation and Cultural Heritage Conservation

Photogrammetry is the art and science of deriving accurate 3-D metric and descriptive object information from multiple analogue and digital images. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in utilizing imagery in different fields such as archaeology, architecture, mechanical inspection, and surgery. Photogrammetry is concerned with deriving measurements of the size, shape, position and t...