Following World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the political and population dynamics of the Middle East changed dramatically. New national borders, defined either by western mandates or by local sovereignties, included peoples and architectural legacies from a variety of religions and ethnicities. Under the unifying pressures of national ideologies, the diverse groups of the Midd...

The tradition of organized protection of cultural heritage has lasted for a century and a half in the territory of today’s Slovenia. The first laws, as well as in other republics of the former common state, were issued at the end of World War II and since then significant activity in this field began to develop. The first bill on the level of the Republic was passed in 1948, followed by the law...

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has developed several high-resolution 3D imaging systems as well as data modeling and display software for heritage recording applications. Numerous pilot applications development projects have been undertaken in collaboration with several Canadian museums as well as with international partners in China, Italy, the USA, the UK, France and Israel. Th...

Domains related to documentation, conservation, restoration and enhancement of heritage objects use more and more digital 3D surveying. Image-based methods, due to their low-cost and accessibility, constitute an interesting alternative to traditional laser scanning surveys. However, these tools, often based on computer vision methods, are either difficult to use or not sufficiently accurate for...

The new technologies are playing a main role in the preservation and restoration of the architectural heritage. In this paper, a digitization of the walls of Avila process, by means of laser and photogrammetric technologies, is described. This process includes the acquisition of data, the processing and integration of both data sets and finally, the generation of a photographic texture model of...

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