3D orientation of archaeological fragments coming from a Gothic spire

Laugerotte, C.; Warzée, N.

3D orientation of archaeological fragments coming from a Gothic spire

Files

175-183.pdf (1.46 MB)

Date

2004

Authors

Laugerotte, C.
Warzée, N.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of 3D mesh orientation applied to archaeological fragments coming from a Gothic spire. Initially, these fragments are handled leading to their deterioration while the accuracy of measures (distances, molding shape,. . . ) is not always relevant. To facilitate their study, a 3D acquisition process is applied on these fragments to work on their virtual representations and computerised tools can be proposed. One of them consists in finding the orientation of a 3D mesh. Unfortunately, existing methods provide unexpected results. This is mainly due to the presence of ornamentations we can assimilate to outliers. Therefore, we propose a new method based on the identification of significant areas on the 3D mesh and on the determination of their associated orientation by considering differential parameters. Then, a voting method is performed to identify the orientation appearing the most frequently. Applied on the fragments, we obtain successful results allowing to go further in their analysis.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:VAST/VAST04/175-183
,
booktitle = {VAST 2004: The 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
},
editor = {Y. Chrysanthou and K. Cain and N. Silberman and F. Niccolucci
},
title = {{3D orientation of archaeological fragments coming from a Gothic spire
}},
author = {Laugerotte, C. and 
Warzée, N.
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1811-864X
},
ISBN = {3-905673-18-5
},
DOI = {10.2312/VAST/VAST04/175-183
}
}