Domitilla Catacomb Walkthrough - dealing with more than 1 billion points

Claus Scheiblauer
Domitilla Catacomb Walkthrough - dealing with more than 1 billion points
In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies. November 2008.
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Range laser scanning evolved as a means for documenting buildings or archeological excavation sites. Point clouds resulting from these laser scans can consist of hundreds of millions of points. To get a clean model from this vast amount of data needs several person months. Instead we try to visualize the data directly, so archeologists can have a quick overview of the already scanned areas (e.g., during a scanning campaign). The models in our viewer are combined point clouds from several scan positions, and it is possible to add new point clouds to an existing model. We also allow for deleting points from the model. Furthermore we developed a heuristic to estimate point sizes, which enables the viewer to display surfaces as closed objects without a special preprocessing step. For the point size heuristic it suffices to know the positions of the points.

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@inproceedings{Scheiblauer-2008-DCW,
  title =      "Domitilla Catacomb Walkthrough - dealing with more than 1
               billion points",
  author =     "Claus Scheiblauer",
  year =       "2008",
  abstract =   "Range laser scanning evolved as a means for documenting
               buildings or archeological excavation sites. Point clouds
               resulting from these laser scans can consist of hundreds of
               millions of points. To get a clean model from this vast
               amount of data needs several person months. Instead we try
               to visualize the data directly, so archeologists can have a
               quick overview of the already scanned areas (e.g., during a
               scanning campaign). The models in our viewer are combined
               point clouds from several scan positions, and it is possible
               to add new point clouds to an existing model. We also allow
               for deleting points from the model. Furthermore we developed
               a heuristic to estimate point sizes, which enables the
               viewer to display surfaces as closed objects without a
               special preprocessing step. For the point size heuristic it
               suffices to know the positions of the points.",
  pages =      "%pages_from%--%pages_to%",
  month =      11,
  note =       "Cultural Heritage & New Technologies",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Cultural
               Heritage and New Technologies",
  isbn =       "978-3-85161-016-1",
  series =     "Tagungsreihe "Kulturelles Erbe und Neue
               Technologien" - Workshop "Arch{\"a}ologie und
               Computer"",
  location =   "Vienna City Hall",
  keywords =   "laser scanning, virtual reconstruction, point-based
               rendering",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2008/Scheiblauer-2008-DCW/",
}