Community-driven Generation of 3D and Augmented Web Content for Archaeology [article]

Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Andrew T. Wilson, Helen C. Miles, Lee F. Williams, Bernard Tiddeman, Frédéric Labrosse, Seren Griffiths, Ben Edwards, Katharina Möller, Raimund Karl, Jonathan C. Roberts
2014 Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage  
Heritage sites (such as prehistoric burial cairns and standing stones) are prolific in Europe; although there is a wish to scan each of these sites, it would be time-consuming to achieve. Citizen science approaches enable us to involve the public to perform a metric survey by capturing images. In this paper, discussing work-in progress, we present our automatic process that takes the user's uploaded photographs, converts them into 3D models and displays them in two presentation platforms - in a
more » ... web gallery application, using X3D/X3DOM, and in mobile augmented reality, using awe.js.
doi:10.2312/gch.20141321 dblp:conf/vast/RitsosWMWTLGEMK14 fatcat:ps7s6ujhenb5pevccyqr7vgp5m