Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Rapid procedural-modelling of architectural structures
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage
Procedural modeling of buildings
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Exploring cultural heritage sites through space and time
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
Automatic description of complex buildings from multiple images
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Digital reunification of the parthenon and its sculptures
VAST'03 Proceedings of the 4th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage
Technical Section: An architectural approach to efficient 3D urban modeling
Computers and Graphics
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Reconstructions of large cultural heritage sites, at multiple time periods, facilitate public awareness, enable the visualisation of regeneration proposals, and assist archaeologists in establishing the validity of a particular hypothesis within context. This paper focuses on the reconstruction of sites that no longer exist, where archived cartography and archaeologist's sketches provide an invaluable resource conveying the layout of an area. Whilst three-dimensional models are used in a broad range of applications their construction typically involves a labour intensive process and this paper presents a set of techniques to aid the reconstruction of environments from maps. In particular, the approach considers that an environment will exhibit a substantial amount of similarity, which is exploited to reduce the modelling time. The concept of similarity permits a dominant set of k building footprints to be identified from a map. A set of models representing the k dominant footprints are created and, based upon both the image based and geometry based metrics discussed in this paper, are aligned to the closest matching footprint in the archived map. Any building that is not sufficiently close to any of the k dominant footprints is labelled as being visually distinct and requires further modelling. To evaluate the technique a reconstruction of 19th Century Koblenz is undertaken, where 2300 building footprints are extracted, classified and aligned to one of 51 dominant building footprints in under fifteen minutes.