Surface and Interface Analysis in Cultural Heritage

Advanced Visual Interface for Cultural Heritage

AVI provided an attractive opportunity for exploring novel visual interfaces for cultural heritage (CH). CH traditionally draws a lot of research attention when it comes to exploring the potential benefits from application of novel technology in realistic settings. At the same time, AVI focusses on exploring the state of the art visual interfaces and their application in various domains. The AV...

Geometric Analysis in Cultural Heritage

We present a review of recent techniques for performing geometric analysis in cultural heritage applications, targeting the broad community of researchers and practitioners in cultural heritage computing. The problems considered include shape perception enhancement, restoration and preservation support, monitoring over time, object interpretation, and collection analysis. All of these problems ...

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

A Multilingual SPARQL-Based Retrieval Interface for Cultural Heritage Objects

In this paper we present a multilingual SPARQL-based [1] retrieval interface for querying cultural heritage data in natural language (NL). The presented system offers an elegant grammar-based approach which is based on Grammatical Framework (GF) [2], a grammar formalism supporting multilingual applications. Using GF, we are able to present a cross-language SPARQL grammar covering 15 languages a...

ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ - Belongings: A Tangible Interface for Intangible Cultural Heritage

ʔeləw̓k̓w – Belongings is an interactive tabletop using a tangible user interface to explore intangible cultural heritage. The table was designed for the c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city exhibition. This exhibition is a partnership of three major institutions in Vancouver, BC, exploring the significant ancient village site on which part of Vancouver was built, as well as Musqueam culture and co...