Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology

Archaeology is at a point where it can benefit greatly from the application of computer vision methods, and in turn provides a large number of new, challenging, interesting conceptual problems and data for computer vision. In particular, it provides new horizons for the development of shape theory for structured and free-form representation, deformation, and Bayesian inferencing from 3D and 2D data, invariants for matching and searching, conceptual grouping, geometric and feature databases, 3D immersion, and many more. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss how computer vision has been applied to archaeology problems and in turn define new interesting problems to work on. The format of the proposed one day workshop is a set of talks and a poster session followed by a panel discussion.

A list of possible themes for submitted papers, meant to be suggestive rather than exclusive, is:

• Reassembly of artifacts from fragments (2D: murals, 3D: Pottery, sculptures, statues, architecture, forensic (bones, skeletons)).
• 3D reconstruction of archaeological objects and fragments from multiple images, video, laser scans, etc.
• 3D architectural site reconstruction or representation from imagery and other data (geographical, GPS, laser, etc.).
• Automated 2D profile reconstruction for pottery representation.
• Shape representation for free-form modeling (statues, bones, etc.).
• Automated trench recordings from video.
• Shape matching/indexing in large archaeological databases (2D, image-based, and 3D; for a single site and across multiple sites).
• Automated architectural drawing: 2D, sketching 3D from imagery.
• Surface modeling from various sensing modalities, to represent 3D texture, BRDF, etc. (of walls, sculpture, etc.).
• Texture modeling from imagery, remote sensing, models, etc. (to model large surfaces, backgrounds).
• Excavation's historical documentation from multimedia data.
• Vision-based Augmented Reality for site exploration (educational, scientific, tourism).
• Color vision for visualization and/or preservation and/or recovery.
• Shape-based completion for preservation and/or recovery.
• 3D object geometry and surface painting and relief matched across archaeological sites.
• Other applications and modalities (e.g., automated coins recognition, relief understanding, hieroglyphic and other writings recovery from imagery, pottery paintings unwrapping, cave painting un-warping, architectural design understanding, etc.).

ORGANIZATION
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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ACCEPTED PAPERS
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1. The Beauvais Cathedral Project,
   Peter K. Allen, Alejandro Troccoli, Benjamin Smith, Ioannis Stamos and Stephen Murray,
   Columbia University, NY, USA.
    
2. Digital Documentation for the Zawiya and Sabil of Sultan Farag Ibn Barquq, Cairo,
   Kevin Cain, Philippe Martinez, Jerald Munn,
   INSIGHT and Pelleas.org (USA), ENS (Paris, France).
    
3. A Photogrammetric Process Driven by an Expert System: A New Approach for Underwater Archaeological Surveying Applied to the "Grand Ribaud F" Etruscan Wreck,
   Pierre Drap, Julien Seinturier, Luc Long,
   GAMSAU, Marseilles, France.
    
4. Laser Range Imaging in Archaeology: Issues and Results,
   G. Godin, F. Blais, L. Cournoyer, A. Beraldin, J. Domey, J. Taylor, M. Rioux and S. El-Hakim,
   NRC, Ottawa, Canada.
    
5. Design and Use of an In-Museum System for Artifact Capture,
   Holly Rushmeier, Jose Gomes, Frank P. Giordano, Hisham El-Shishiny, Karen Magerlein and Fausto Bernardini,
   IBM Corp., USA.
    
6. Creating Virtual Buddha Statues through Observation,
   Katsushi Ikeuchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Ko Nishino and Takeshi Oishi,
   Tokyo University, Japan.
    
7. Profile-based Pottery Reconstruction,
   Martin Kampel and Robert Sablatnig,
   Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
    
8. Archaeological Fragment Re-Assembly Using Curve-Matching,
   Jonah C. McBride and Benjamin B. Kimia
   Brown University, USA.
    
9. Fast Fragment Assemblage Using Boundary Line and Surface Matching,
   Georgios Papaioannou (1) and Theoharis Theoharis (2),
   (1): University of Athens, Greece, (2): University of Houston, USA.
    
10. Deformable Model Based Shape Analysis and Recovery: Stone Tool Application,
    Kyoungju Park (1), April Nowell (2) and Dimitris Metaxas (3),
    (1) Dept. of Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA,
    (2) Dept. of Anthropology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada,
    (3) Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
     
11. Low-Overlap Range Image Registration for Archaeological Applications.
    Luciano Silva, Olga R.P. Bellon, Kim L. Boyer and Paulo F.U. Gotardo,
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
     
12. Realistic Textures for Virtual Anastylosis,
    Alexey Zalesny, Dominik Auf der Maur, Rupert Paget, Maarten Vergauwen, and Luc Van Gool,
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
     
13. Image-based Automated Reconstruction of the Great Buddha of Bamiyan, Afghanistan,
    Armin Gruen, Fabio Remondino, Li Zhang,
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
     
14. Automatic 3D modeling of archaeological objects,
    Marco Andreetto, Nicola Brusco, Guido M. Cortelazzo,
    Department of Information Engineering, Padova University, Italy.
     
15. Accurately Estimating Sherd 3D Surface Geometry with Application to Pot Reconstruction,
    Andrew Willis (1), Xavier Orriols (2), David B. Cooper (1),
    (1): Brown University, Providence, RI, USA,
    (2): Computer Vision Center (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
     

PAPER SUBMISSION
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One electronic copy (in PDF) of the complete manuscript (double-blind) and a cover sheet (in plain text) stating the (1) paper title, (2) authors, (3) technical area(s), (4) contact author's name, address, telephone number, fax number, and electronic address, and (5) a concise description of the contribution of the paper should be received by Friday January 31st, 2003 at the address below. The cover page should state whether the article is also submitted to another conference (e.g., 3DIM or ICCV), and what the authors plan to do if the article is accepted by both.

      Benjamin B. Kimia
      Division of Engineering, Box D,
      Brown University
      Providence, RI 02912
      Tel: (401) 863-1353
      Fax: (401) 863-9107
      Email: kimia@lems.brown.edu

Paper Format:
A complete paper, not longer than six (6) pages including figures and references, should be submitted in camera-ready IEEE 2-column format of single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman (or closely resembling), with 12 point interline space. The authors are encouraged to use the style files in latex which are pointed to at the CVPR03 webpages.
All reviewing will be double-blind: i.e., the paper must NOT include any information that would identify their authors (e.g., references to the authors' previous work should be left blank).
 

Key Dates:

• Manuscript submission: January 31st, extended to February 7th, 2003
• Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2003
• Receipt of camera ready copy: April 14, 2003
• Workshop: June 17, 2003, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/conferences/ACVA2003/