A portable low-cost reflectometric setup for moisture measurement in Cultural Heritage masonry unit

Measurement ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110438
Author(s):  
Livio D'Alvia ◽  
Erika Pittella ◽  
Emanuele Rizzuto ◽  
Emanuele Piuzzi ◽  
Zaccaria Del Prete
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Masonry Unit ◽  
Moisture Measurement

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Digital Models of Objects of Cultural Heritage Obtained by the “3D SLS” and “SfM” Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5321
Author(s):  
Marcin Barszcz ◽  
Jerzy Montusiewicz ◽  
Magdalena Paśnikowska-Łukaszuk ◽  
Anna Sałamacha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Digital Models ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
3D Digitisation

In the era of the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, 3D digitisation of selected museum artefacts is becoming more and more frequent practice, but the vast majority is performed by specialised teams. The paper presents the results of comparative studies of 3D digital models of the same museum artefacts from the Silk Road area generated by two completely different technologies: Structure from Motion (SfM)—a method belonging to the so-called low-cost technologies—and by Structured-light 3D Scanning (3D SLS). Moreover, procedural differences in data acquisition and their processing to generate three-dimensional models are presented. Models built using a point cloud were created from data collected in the Afrasiyab museum in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) during “The 1st Scientific Expedition of the Lublin University of Technology to Central Asia” in 2017. Photos for creating 3D models in SfM technology were taken during a virtual expedition carried out under the “3D Digital Silk Road” program in 2021. The obtained results show that the quality of the 3D models generated with SfM differs from the models from the technology (3D SLS), but they may be placed in the galleries of the vitrual museum. The obtained models from SfM do not have information about their size, which means that they are not fully suitable for archiving purposes of cultural heritage, unlike the models from SLS.

scholarly journals An Application of Integrated 3D Technologies for Replicas in Cultural Heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balletti ◽  
Ballarin
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Data Acquisition And Processing ◽  
Short Time

In recent decades, 3D acquisition by laser scanning or digital photogrammetry has become one of the standard methods of documenting cultural heritage, because it permits one to analyze the shape, geometry, and location of any artefact without necessarily coming into contact with it. The recording of three-dimensional metrical data of an asset allows one to preserve and monitor, but also to understand and explain the history and cultural heritage shared. In essence, it constitutes a digital archive of the state of an artefact, which can be used for various purposes, be remodeled, or kept safely stored. With the introduction of 3D printing, digital data can once again take on material form and become physical objects from the corresponding mathematical models in a relatively short time and often at low cost. This possibility has led to a different consideration of the concept of virtual data, no longer necessarily linked to simple visual fruition. The importance of creating high-resolution physical copies has been reassessed in light of different types of events that increasingly threaten the protection of cultural heritage. The aim of this research is to analyze the critical issues in the production process of the replicas, focusing on potential problems in data acquisition and processing and on the accuracy of the resulting 3D printing. The metric precision of the printed model with 3D technology are fundamental for everything concerning geomatics and must be related to the same characteristics of the digital model obtained through the survey analysis.

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage Recording Utilising Low-Cost Closerange Photogrammetry

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 185-192
Author(s):  
Melanie Kirchhöfer ◽  
Jim Chandler ◽  
Rene Wackrow
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Recording System ◽  
Exterior Orientation ◽  
Close Range Photogrammetry ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Close Range ◽  
English Heritage ◽  
Heritage Recording

Cultural heritage is under a constant threat of damage or even destruction and comprehensive and accurate recording is necessary to attenuate the risk of losing heritage or serve as basis for reconstruction. Cost effective and easy to use methods are required to record cultural heritage, particularly during a world recession, and close-range photogrammetry has proven potential in this area. Off-the-shelf digital cameras can be used to rapidly acquire data at low cost, allowing non-experts to become involved. Exterior orientation of the camera during exposure ideally needs to be established for every image, traditionally requiring known coordinated target points. Establishing these points is time consuming and costly and using targets can be often undesirable on sensitive sites. MEMS-based sensors can assist in overcoming this problem by providing small-size and low-cost means to directly determine exterior orientation for close-range photogrammetry. This paper describes development of an image-based recording system, comprising an off-the-shelf digital SLR camera, a MEMS-based 3D orientation sensor and a GPS antenna. All system components were assembled in a compact and rigid frame that allows calibration of rotational and positional offsets between the components. The project involves collaboration between English Heritage and Loughborough University and the intention is to assess the system’s achievable accuracy and practicability in a heritage recording environment. Tests were conducted at Loughborough University and a case study at St. Catherine’s Oratory on the Isle of Wight, UK. These demonstrate that the data recorded by the system can indeed meet the accuracy requirements for heritage recording at medium accuracy (1-4cm), with either a single or even no control points. As the recording system has been configured with a focus on low-cost and easy-to-use components, it is believed to be suitable for heritage recording by non-specialists. This offers the opportunity for lay people to become more involved in their local heritage, an important aspiration identified by English Heritage. Recently, mobile phones (smartphones) with integrated camera and MEMS-based orientation and positioning sensors have become available. When orientation and position during camera exposure is extracted, these phones establish off-the-shelf systems that can facilitate image-based recording with direct exterior orientation determination. Due to their small size and low-cost they have potential to further enhance the involvement of lay-people in heritage recording. The accuracy currently achievable will be presented also.

scholarly journals TRIANGULATION AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT BASED 3D DIGITISATION TECHNIQUES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE STRUCTURES

2021 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B2-2021 ◽  
pp. 825-830
Author(s):  
C. Altuntas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Laser Scanner ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Dense Point

Abstract. This study aims to introduce triangulation and ToF measurement techniques used in three-dimensional modelling of cultural heritages. These measurement techniques are traditional photogrammetry, SfM approach, laser scanning and time-of-flight camera. The computer based approach to photogrammetric measurement that is named SfM creates dense point cloud data in a short time. It is low-cost and very easy to application. However traditional photogrammetry needs a huge effort for creating 3D wire-frame model. On the other hand active measurement techniques such as terrestrial laser scanner and time-of-flight camera have also been used in three-dimensional modelling for more than twenty years. Each one has specific accuracy and measurement effectiveness. The large or small structures have different characters, and require proper measurement configurations. In this study, after these methods are introduced, their superior and weak properties in cultural heritage modelling to make high accuracy, high density and labour and cost effective measurement.

scholarly journals COMPUTATIONAL VISION IN UV-MAPPING OF TEXTURED MESHES COMING FROM PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECOVERY: UNWRAPPING FRESCOED VAULTS

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B5 ◽  
pp. 391-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Robleda ◽  
G. Caroti ◽  
I. Martínez-Espejo Zaragoza ◽  
A. Piemonte
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Complex Geometries ◽  
Digital Photogrammetry ◽  
General Methodology ◽  
Site Restoration ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Relationship

Sometimes it is difficult to represent “on paper" the existing reality of architectonic elements, depending on the complexity of his geometry, but not only in cases with complex geometries: non-relief surfaces, can need a “special planar format” for its graphical representation. <br><br> Nowadays, there are a lot of methods to obtain tridimensional recovery of our Cultural Heritage with different ranges of the relationship accuracy / costs, even getting high accuracy using “low-cost” recovery methods as digital photogrammetry, which allow us easily to obtain a graphical representation “on paper”: ortho-images of different points of view. This can be useful for many purposes but, for others, an orthographic projection is not really very interesting. <br><br> In non-site restoration tasks of frescoed vaults, a “planar format” representation in needed to see in true magnitude the paintings represented on the intrados vault, because of the general methodology used: gluing the fresco on a fabric, removing the fresco-fabric from the support, moving to laboratory, removing the fresco from the fabric, restoring the fresco, gluing back the restored fresco on another fabric, laying the restored fresco on the original location and removing the fabric. Because of this, many times, an unfolded model is needed, in a similar way a cylinder or cone can be unfolded, but in this case with a texture included: UV unwrapping. <br><br> Unfold and fold-back processes, can be especially interesting in restoration field of frescoed vaults and domes at: chromatic recovery of paintings, reconstruction of partially missed geometries, transference of paintings on surfaces, etc.

scholarly journals COMPUTATIONAL VISION IN UV-MAPPING OF TEXTURED MESHES COMING FROM PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECOVERY: UNWRAPPING FRESCOED VAULTS

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B5 ◽  
pp. 391-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Robleda ◽  
G. Caroti ◽  
I. Martínez-Espejo Zaragoza ◽  
A. Piemonte
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Complex Geometries ◽  
Digital Photogrammetry ◽  
General Methodology ◽  
Site Restoration ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Relationship

Sometimes it is difficult to represent “on paper" the existing reality of architectonic elements, depending on the complexity of his geometry, but not only in cases with complex geometries: non-relief surfaces, can need a “special planar format” for its graphical representation. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Nowadays, there are a lot of methods to obtain tridimensional recovery of our Cultural Heritage with different ranges of the relationship accuracy / costs, even getting high accuracy using “low-cost” recovery methods as digital photogrammetry, which allow us easily to obtain a graphical representation “on paper”: ortho-images of different points of view. This can be useful for many purposes but, for others, an orthographic projection is not really very interesting. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In non-site restoration tasks of frescoed vaults, a “planar format” representation in needed to see in true magnitude the paintings represented on the intrados vault, because of the general methodology used: gluing the fresco on a fabric, removing the fresco-fabric from the support, moving to laboratory, removing the fresco from the fabric, restoring the fresco, gluing back the restored fresco on another fabric, laying the restored fresco on the original location and removing the fabric. Because of this, many times, an unfolded model is needed, in a similar way a cylinder or cone can be unfolded, but in this case with a texture included: UV unwrapping. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Unfold and fold-back processes, can be especially interesting in restoration field of frescoed vaults and domes at: chromatic recovery of paintings, reconstruction of partially missed geometries, transference of paintings on surfaces, etc.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE BATHYMETRIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES USING NON-CONVENTIONAL PAYLOAD FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE INSPECTIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 807-811
Author(s):  
F. Mugnai ◽  
A. Ridolfi ◽  
M. Bianchi ◽  
M. Franchi ◽  
G. Tucci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Spatial Reconstruction ◽  
Underwater Navigation

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> This paper focuses on the implementation of new techniques for bathymetric inspections. The scope is the exploitation of sensors, usually and commonly used for navigation, namely the altimeter and the Forward Looking Sonar (FLS), for identifying objects which are laying on the sea floor. In this particular framework, the low spatial resolution and coverage of these sensors have been enhanced through the application of classical computational geometry. The altimeter and the FLS are part of the most common underwater navigation systems, and they are vastly mounted on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Although they are not designed for this kind of accurate measurements and for 3D spatial reconstruction, they are quite cost-effective if compared with standard multibeam acoustic systems. Developing a technique for exploiting such an affordable low cost and widely used sensor will empower the Cultural Heritage community of users, giving a feasible opportunity to perform effective archaeological campaigns also within small funded projects.</p>

scholarly journals UAV PHOTGRAMMETRIC WORKFLOWS: A BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINE

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 237-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Federman ◽  
M. Santana Quintero ◽  
S. Kretz ◽  
J. Gregg ◽  
M. Lengies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Aerial Image ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Flight Operations ◽  
Data Acquisition And Processing

The increasing commercialization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened the possibility of performing low-cost aerial image acquisition for the documentation of cultural heritage sites through UAV photogrammetry. The flying of UAVs in Canada is regulated through Transport Canada and requires a Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) in order to fly. Various image acquisition techniques have been explored in this review, as well as well software used to register the data. A general workflow procedure has been formulated based off of the literature reviewed. A case study example of using UAV photogrammetry at Prince of Wales Fort is discussed, specifically in relation to the data acquisition and processing. Some gaps in the literature reviewed highlight the need for streamlining the SFOC application process, and incorporating UAVs into cultural heritage documentation courses.

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