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Digital Restoration of Missing Parts in the Wall Paintings of Thera

Photograph collection at Akrotiri and mosaic creation Wall paintings from Building B and Xeste 3

Acquisition of multiple photographs for each wall painting

Creation of browsable high resolution photographic mosaics

Digital restoration of gaps in wall paintings Filling in missing parts

Research into novel image inpainting techniques

George Papandreou@NTUA (advisor: Prof. P. Maragos) http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/research/thera

Details on Friday

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Photograph collection and mosaic creation

http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/AkrotiriThera/DataSets

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Digital restoration of gaps in wall paintings

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AKROSIGHT preview

Participating institutes and senior researchers School of ECE, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

P. Maragos, C. Tzafestas Akrotiri-Thera Excavation

C. Doumas, A. Vlachopoulos School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

C. Palyvou EXODUS S.A.

Industrial partner University College London (external partner)

T. Weyrich

Follow-up project on PENED Funding proposal pending (Greek agency)

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AKROSIGHT outline

High quality digitization of wall paintings and buildings Photographic acquisition Architectural and topographic measurements

Photorealistic digital representations 3-D structure acquisition and modeling of buildings Photometric reconstruction of wall painting surface geometry and

registration into the photographic mosaics Integration into an information system

Aid in archaeological study Dissemination for visitors: animated videos and photo-tourism