Practical 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Artefacts from Photographs – Potentials and Issues

[EN] A new technology is on the rise that allows the 3D-reconstruction of Cultural Heritage objects from image sequences taken by ordinary digital cameras. We describe the first experiments we made as early adopters in a community-funded research project whose goal is to develop it into a standard CH technology. The paper describes in detail a step-by-step procedure that can be reproduced using free tools by any CH professional. We also give a critical assessment of the workflow and describe several ideas for developing it further into an automatic procedure for 3D reconstruction from images.We gratefully acknowledge the funding from the European Commission for the FP7-IP 3D-COFORM under grant No. 231809. With this support, we are confident to provide solutions for the mentioned problems soon.Fellner, DW.; Havemann, S.; Beckmann, P.; Pan, X. (2011). Practical 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Artefacts from Photographs – Potentials and Issues. Virtual Archaeology Review. 2(4):95-103. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2011.4564OJS9510324CROFTS N., DOERR M., GILL T., STEAD S., STIFF M.: Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, version 4.2 ed. CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group, June 2005. Also ISO/PRF 21127, available from cidoc.ics.forth.gr.LONDON CHARTER INITIATIVE (HUGH DENARD): The london charter, June 2006. www.londoncharter.org.PAN, X., BECKMANN, P., HAVEMANN, S., TZOMPANAKI, K., DOERR, M., FELLNER, D.W., A distributed Object Repository for Cultural Heritage, Proc. VAST 2010 conference, Eurographics Press, 201

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