Contour-shape based reconstruction of fragmented, 1600 B.C. wall paintings

Papaodysseus, C; Panagopoulos, T; Exarhos, M; Triantafillou, C; Fragoulis, D; Doumas, C

dc.contributor.author	Papaodysseus, C	en
dc.contributor.author	Panagopoulos, T	en
dc.contributor.author	Exarhos, M	en
dc.contributor.author	Triantafillou, C	en
dc.contributor.author	Fragoulis, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Doumas, C	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:17:40Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:17:40Z
dc.date.issued	2002	en
dc.identifier.issn	1053-587X	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/14608
dc.subject.classification	Engineering, Electrical & Electronic	en
dc.subject.other	Computer aided design	en
dc.subject.other	Object recognition	en
dc.subject.other	Painting	en
dc.subject.other	Walls (structural partitions)	en
dc.subject.other	Computer aided reconstruction	en
dc.subject.other	Wall paintings	en
dc.subject.other	Image reconstruction	en
dc.title	Contour-shape based reconstruction of fragmented, 1600 B.C. wall paintings	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1109/TSP.2002.1003053	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2002.1003053	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2002	en
heal.abstract	In this paper, a novel general methodology, is introduced for the computer-aided reconstruction of the magnificent wall paintings of the Greek island Thera (Santorini), which were painted in the middle of the second millennium B.C. These wall paintings have been excavated in fragments, and as a result, their reconstruction is a painstaking and a time-consuming process. Therefore, in order to facilitate and expedite this process, a proper system has been developed based on the introduced methodology. According to this methodology, each fragment is photographed, its picture is introduced to the computer, its contour is obtained, and, subsequently, all of the fragments contours are compared in a manner proposed herein. Both the system and the methodology presented here extract the maximum possible information from the contour shape of fragments of an arbitrary initially unbroken plane object to point out possible fragment matching. This methodology has been applied to two excavated fragmented wall paintings consisting of 262 fragments with full success, but most important, it has been used to reconstruct, for the first time, unpublished parts of wall paintings from a set of 936 fragments.	en
heal.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC	en
heal.journalName	IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/TSP.2002.1003053	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000175761800003	en
dc.identifier.volume	50	en
dc.identifier.issue	6	en
dc.identifier.spage	1277	en
dc.identifier.epage	1288	en