ITR: Solving the Puzzle of the Forma Urbis Romae

该项目将使用计算机形状匹配算法来组装古罗马城市地图的剩余碎片，这是一幅巨大的古罗马大理石地图。 原件宽60英尺，高45英尺，可追溯到公元世纪。 该地图现在由1，163个碎片组成，并不完整。 将剩余的碎片拼接在一起是计算机图形研究的一个独特挑战。 如果成功，它将为考古学家提供一个非常重要的资源。 为了测试图形算法的原始数据是在巨大的成本和努力获得。 来自斯坦福大学的一个教师和学生团队花了一个月的时间在现场使用激光扫描和数字彩色摄影将每个已知碎片的形状和表面外观数字化。 经过处理的原始数据现在包括80亿个多边形和6000张彩色图像，总计40GB的数据。该项目希望制作和传播这一著名考古文献的3D模型和照片数据库，并在此过程中为同类物体的形状匹配提供新的算法。

This project will use computer shape matching algorithms to assemble the remaining fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, a giant marble map of ancient Rome. The original, measuring 60 feet wide by 45 feet high, dates to the second century AD. The map now consists of 1,163 fragments, and is incomplete. Piecing the remaining fragments together is a unique challenge for computer graphics research. If successful, it will offer to archeologists a resource of great importance. In order to test the graphics algorithms the raw data was acquired at great cost and effort. A team of faculty and students from Stanford spent a month on site digitizing the shape and surface appearance of every known fragment using laser scanning and digital color photography. The processed raw data now consists of 8 billion polygons and 6 thousand color images, amounting to 40GB of data. The project hopes to produce and disseminate a database of 3D models and photographs of this famous archaeological document and in the process, contribute new algorithms for shape matching for objects of kind.--