The issues of digital preservation of shapes and internal structures of historical and cultural objects are discussed. An overview of existing approaches to computer modeling of shapes is presented and corresponding problems are considered. We propose a digital preservation paradigm quite different from the currently popular "scan and mesh" approach yielding visible surface models. Our approach...

Detail-and-geometry richness is essential to bas-relief modelling. However, existing image-based and model-based modelling techniques commonly suffer from detail monotony or geometry loss. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for abundance with visual attention based mask generation preservation, which benefits our two key contributions. For richness, propose novel semantic neural networ...

Manifold learning techniques are used to preserve the original geometry of dataset after reduction by preserving the distance among data points. MDS (Multidimensional Scaling), ISOMAP (Isometric Feature Mapping), LLE (Locally Linear Embedding) are some of the geometrical structure preserving dimension reduction methods. In this paper, we have compared MDS and ISOMAP and considered similarity as...

In the nuclear industry, achieving Long Term Data Preservation is a requirement for nuclear power plants to be safely built, operated over five or six decades and retired. Among them, CAD data suffers from some strong dependencies on the software vendors and its data model thus leading to a possible weakness in the preservation workflow. This paper presents a modeling language, suitable for the...

The cultural heritage preservation requires that objects persist throughout time to continue to communicate an intended meaning. Digital technology and specifically 3D digital technology is naturally a critical component in preservation. Yet once in the digital world the object's persistence is inextricably linked to data persistence and current 3D technologies do little more than capture a sil...

Issues of digital preservation of shapes and internal structures of historical cultural objects are discussed. An overview of existing approaches to digital preservation related to shape modeling is presented and corresponding problems are considered. We propose a new digital preservation paradigm based on both constructive modeling reflecting the logical structure of the objects and open stand...