A successful application of dense image matching algorithms to historical aerial photographs would offer a great potential for detailed reconstructions of historical landscapes in three dimensions, allowing for the efficient monitoring of various landscape changes over the last 50+ years. In this paper we propose the combination of image-based dense DSM (digital surface model) reconstruction fr...

This paper discusses the capabilities of the Vist3D system which enables non-technical users, specifically users without knowledge of 3D modelling techniques, interface design, data manipulation and creation of multimedia artefacts to build historical 3D spatiotemporal visualisations from natural language narratives. The user (e.g. museum curator, people involved with cultural heritage) need on...

Bandar Abbas (center of Hormozgan province) is the most important port city in the south of Iran because of its historical places, cultural, economic, social and political importance. High risk of earthquake occurrence in this city and its province indicates the necessity of surveying the seismic vulnerability of buildings. The object of this paper is collected from existing Buildings, compiled...

Many modern virtual reality reconstructions of historical sites focus on buildings and artefacts, but often ignore the issue of portraying everyday life of the people who populated the reconstructed area. This is mainly due to high costs and complexity of populating such sites with virtual agents. Here we show how combining needs modelling and planning can help to automate the development of la...

Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

In the field of engineering systems, it is important to correctly integrate graphical, textual and computational resources referring to complex physical structures, such as civil structures or production plants. It is therefore necessary to weave together several information sources in a common interface, keeping alive links with real-time monitoring systems and interpretation systems: moreover...

A method for representation of 3D VR by combination of 2D and 3D models is. It improves the process of 3D scene building by importing of models from TLS point cloud data and it is supposed to be an efficient way to represent 3D scene of constructions, especially for historical buildings. The preconditions and process of this combinative representation are expatiated. We also carried out a simpl...

Throughout this paper, a method to efficiently survey buildings by digital images, dynamically and statically acquired, is presented by investigating methodological and analytical aspects and by suggesting an integrated surveying procedure, in order to well exploit the synergy among different imaging sensors. At first, it is earlier evaluated and then discarded (for described operative reasons)...