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What can CS do for Archaeology? (and vice versa)

What can CS do for Archaeology? (and vice versa). John Hughes Brown University Providence (visiting EVASION/INRIA 2003-2004) All images courtesy of Eileen Vote, Brown University and the ARCHAVE project. Some General Problems. Field collection support Post-collection analysis

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What can CS do for Archaeology? (and vice versa)

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  1. What can CS do for Archaeology?(and vice versa) John Hughes Brown University Providence (visiting EVASION/INRIA 2003-2004)All images courtesy of Eileen Vote, Brown Universityand the ARCHAVE project

  2. Some General Problems Field collection support Post-collection analysis Post-collection dissemination of site-experience Fragment assembly Objects from the Petra Great Temple Excavations

  3. General Problems • 3D shape representation for recording and documentation (images and video) • Reconstruction of 3D objects for artifact reconstruction (pottery) • Analysis of the 3D aspects of the record (databases and visualization)

  4. ARCHAVE Features Tools Visualization Context

  5. Potential applications: CS aArchaeology • Biased towards graphics • GIS applications may suggest new ideas

  6. Shape/appearance matching: • “Find me all the other artifacts that look a bit like this one” • …or “like a piece of this one” • 3D database search is rapidly getting close to supporting this

  7. Presentation Tools • “Help me display my data in a compelling way to others” • “Let me highlight the important features” • Give rough sketches where only rough information is known • “Make it easy to put on a web page, a video, or slides” • “Expressive Rendering” literature • Adaptive layouts • McCloud “Understanding Comics” • Help me share the experience of being an archaeologist.

  8. Interface design • “I need a way to do my scientific work in this CAVE, but I can’t bring my laptop with me!” • Convenient tools for day-to-day research in context of VE • …wide open research area…

  9. “Graphical Models” • Is it possible to estimate the distribution of shapes in some site to make reasonable guesses of missing shapes from the ones we see? • Treat collected data as samples from unknown distributions with (partly) known relations.

  10. Potential applications: Archaeology aCS • Testbed for expressive rendering in virtual environments • “What are the tensions between ‘expressive rendering’ and a sense of reality?” • What happens when you put “marks” – brushstrokes, pen-lines, etc. – in 3D?

  11. “The Agora is a space first, and not just a building”: data representations • CS builds “general” models… • … but when we encounter real data, our models are inadequate • We don’t handle… • qualitative data • missing data • higher-level characteristics (“what is the space?” instead of “what are the shapes?”)

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  13. Thanks • Eileen Vote, Brown Univ., provided slides about Archave/Petra.

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