III-CXT-Core Large: Computer Vision Research: Promoting Paradigm Shifts in Archaeology

IIS - 0808718 III-CXT-Core大型：计算机视觉研究：促进考古学范式转变库珀，大卫布朗大学这个项目继续了ITR招标下开始的长期智力计划，并已被证明在多个方面具有创新性。这项工作是计算机视觉、物理、数学、算法开发、高效计算、图形和可视化的巧妙跨学科融合，在一个迅速兴起的领域，最好被称为计算考古学，尽管这些方法被推广到其他领域。该项目涉及一个由考古学家和计算机视觉/图形/可视化研究人员组成的跨学科团队，开发用于捕获和分析考古数据的方法和软件。在这个项目中，布朗大学工程系人机系统实验室（LEMS）将与布朗大学Joukowsky考古和古代世界研究所、马萨诸塞州威廉斯敦的非营利性历史可视化教育推广研究所、以色列特拉维夫大学的考古学家和来自欧洲机构的几位计算机视觉专家合作。主要的测试项目将是以色列的十字军城堡。该项目提出了四个子项目：挖掘过程中现场拍摄的视频和3D数据的收集系统和数据库，小型文物和建筑遗址的三维重建，陶器和玻璃碎片的组装，以及遗址和文物的可视化。该项目建立并扩展了早期的工作，主要集中在佩特拉考古遗址和人工制品碎片的组装上。过去5年计算技术在处理能力和存储容量方面的进步，加上成本的降低，使研究人员能够扩大他们的雄心，开发更强大的工具和分析技术。

IIS - 0808718 III-CXT-Core Large: Computer Vision Research: Promoting Paradigm Shifts in ArchaeologyCooper, David B.Brown UniversityThis project continues a longer term intellectual program begun under the ITR solicitation and has proven to be innovative in multiple ways. The work is an artful interdisciplinary blend of computer vision, physics, mathematics, algorithm development, efficient computation, graphics and visualization in a rapidly emerging area which might best be termed computational archeology, although the methods are generalized to other domains. The project involves an interdisciplinary team of archeologists and computer vision/graphics/visualization researchers developing methods and software for capturing and analyzing archeological data. In this project The Brown University Division of Engineering, Laboratory for Man/Machine Systems (LEMS), will collaborate with the Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, the nonprofit educational outreach Institute for the Visualization of History, Williamstown, MA, archaeologists at Tel Aviv University, Israel and several computer vision experts from European institutions.The primary testbed project will be a crusader castle in Israel. There are four sub-projects proposed: a collection system and database for video and 3D data captured on-site during excavation, three-dimensional reconstruction, of both small artifacts and architectural sites, assembly of pottery and glass fragments, and visualization of sites and artifacts. The project builds on and extends earlier work which focused on the Petra archaeological site and assembly of artifact fragments. The advances in computing technologies over the past 5 years in processing power and storage capacity combined with decreases in cost allow the researchers to expand their ambitions and develop more powerful tools and analytic techniques.