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SUMMARY:IC Monday Seminar : Custom Acquisition and Workflow Integration in
  Cultural Heritage Applications
DTSTART:20111219T161500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tim Weyrich\, University College London - invited by Prof.
  Mark Pauly\nAbstract Digital acquisition of objects\, be it photographic 
 documentation\, document scanning or 3-D scanning of objects\, is often co
 nsidered a solved problem\, and most people take it for granted that such 
 technology is directly beneficial to cultural heritage applications. This 
 widely shared impression is contrasted by the situation in many archives\,
  museums and excavations: no single scanning technology is suitable for a 
 wide-enough range of objects\, and commercial software packages require ex
 pert users and substantial manual interaction to obtain high-quality model
 s from raw scan data. At the example of three application domains\, we wil
 l study how\, by carefully analysing existing workflows\, custom scanning 
 and processing solutions can be made amenable for every-day operation in a
  non-technical environment. I will report on our experiences with fresco r
 econstruction at the Akrotiri Excavation\, Santorini\, on the reconstructi
 on of fire-damaged parchment with London Metropolitan Archives\, and on th
 e analysis of Egyptian papyri with the Petrie Museum in London. Biography 
 Tim Weyrich is an Associate Professor in the Virtual Environments and Comp
 uter Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science\, University Col
 lege London\, and co-founder and Associate Director of the UCL Centre for 
 Digital Humanities. Prior to coming to UCL in 2008\, Tim was a Postdoctora
 l Teaching Fellow of Princeton University\, working in the Princeton Compu
 ter Graphics Group\, a post he took after having received his PhD from ETH
  Zurich\, Switzerland\, in 2006. His research interests are appearance mod
 elling\, point-based graphics\, 3D reconstruction\, cultural heritage acqu
 isition and digital humanities. More information
LOCATION:INM 202
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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