Paintings, frescoes, antique photographic prints, incunabula, old books, handwritten
documents, sculptures, ceramic fragments, and other ancient manufacts constitute the …

The increasing creation of 3D cultural heritage models has resulted in a need for the
establishment of centralized digital archives. We advocate open repositories of scientifically …

Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their
most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building …

Although mature technologies exist for acquiring images, geometry, and normals of small
objects, they remain cumbersome and time-consuming for non-experts to employ on a large …

Ekphrasis is familiar as a rhetorical tool for inducing enargeia, the vivid sense that a reader
or listener is actually in the presence of the objects described. This book focuses on the …

The Aventine—one of Rome's canonical seven hills—has long been identified as the city's
plebeian district, which housed the lower orders of society and served as the political …

The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently.
Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the …

Curves on objects can convey the inherent features of the shape. This paper defines a new
class of view-independent curves, denoted demarcating curves. In a nutshell, demarcating …

Cultural heritage is increasingly put through imaging systems such as multispectral cameras
and 3D scanners. Though these acquisition systems are often used independently, they …

Shape completion is an intriguing problem in geometry processing with applications in CAD
and graphics. This paper defines a new type of 3D curves, which can be utilized for curve …