The revival of back-filled monuments through Augmented Reality (AR) (presentation)
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The paper presents an innovative augmented reality (AR) approach for preserving the history of back-filled monuments, utilizing cloud and fog infrastructures to provide users with contextual information. The AR technology aims to document and visualize the original state of these monuments, despite their physical absence, ensuring the protection of intangible heritage. The project highlights that advancements in communication technology, such as 5G, will enhance accessibility and public engagement with these archaeological sites.
The revival of back-filled monuments through Augmented Reality (AR) (presentation)
- 1. DIGITIZE: RESEARCH – RECORD – REACTIVATE – RECONSTRUCT Visual Heritage 2018 hosted by CHNT 23 2018 (Vienna, Austria – November 12 – 15, 2018) The revival of back-filled monuments through Augmented Reality (AR) K. Siountri, E. Skondras, D.D. Vergados, C-N Anagnostopoulos
- 2. Summary of the project • This paper presents the innovative idea • of using AR for maintaining the memory and the information of monuments, • as they have been originally excavated, but that are going to be back-filled • due to the particularity of their material or their location.
- 3. • Cloud infrastructure • It includes a set of Virtual Machines. • Each VM includes: • Augmented Reality (AR) models. • Metadata about AR models. • E.g. Their geographical position or information about their era. • Fog infrastructure • It is being build upon a place with cultural interest. • It includes: • Network access equipment. • NFC tags and/or QR codes installed in specific positions. AR models are presented to the user according to his/her position. The user position could be estimated: • By scanning NFC and/or QR codes. • Or using Geographical Positioning System (GPS) equipment. Technical Solution
- 4. How the technical solution contributes toward reaching the projects goal • This proposed scheme serves the original idea of documenting monuments with three-dimensional models through photogrammetry or laser scanning when they are still visible. • But what happens to the memory of the original position, morphology and integration into the existing environment of the monument? Augmented reality can give a solution to this dilemma of “existence or non existence”.
- 5. Results Although the ‘artificial’ visual documentation can not replace the values of the tangible heritage, • the AR technology can contribute • to the protection of the intangible properties • and the conquered knowledge of the past of a place. Neolithic settlement in the archaeological site of Halais in Lokris (6.000 - 5.000 B.C.) Ismenion Apollo Temple at Thebes (750-330 B.C.)
- 6. Lessons to be learned from the project The partial back-filling of the Neolithic settlement in the archaeological site of Halais in Lokris
- 7. Where do we go from here? Augmented reality can lead to the revival of “buried” or “well hidden” antiquities, making them accessible and visible to public again. • The advances in the communication field and the up-coming 5G technology will make the idea fully applicable to users, • contributing to the preservation of the memory “as it was” not in the common sense of reconstruction that prevails today, but “as it was found” turning the ruins into the main theme of interest. THANK YOU Konstantina Siountri Adjunct Lecturer M.Sc. Programme "Digital Culture, Smart Cities, IoT and Advanced Digital Technologies", Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece Research Associate, Cultural Technology and Communication Dpt., University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece (ksiountri@unipi.gr ; ksiountri@aegean.gr)