A trip to Rome: physical replicas of historical objects created in a fully automated way from photos

  • Authors:
  • Luigi Barazzetti

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Milano, Polo Regionale di Lecco, Lecco, Italy

  • Venue:
  • HCITOCH'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Human-computer interaction, tourism and cultural heritage
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

It is normal for tourists to take photos during their holidays, which are then printed, loaded into digital frames or shared on the Internet. This paper describes a new methodology to obtain accurate 3D digital models and material replicas of real objects, starting from digital images acquired with consumer and professional cameras. The implemented software is completely automatic and provides detailed reconstructions. It stands out from other existing approaches for the high metric accuracy of the final product, the level of detail obtainable, the speed of the algorithms and its adaptability under different viewing conditions. Several examples relating to an actual trip to Rome are reported and discussed, showing what a tourist can obtain with this package. Obviously, the method can be used for many other applications in which accurate models are needed.