Interdisciplinary projects between the field of art history and digital image analysis brought new aspects in both of the fields. While art historians benefit from new objective analysis methods and improved efficiency, for technicians a new field of application and research was opened. In this project a computer aided system to analyze underdrawings in medieval … Continue reading CASANDRA →

An international team of multimedia content creators, led by Brunel University and with support from the European Union, was developing and using 3D Multimedia tools to measure, reconstruct and visualise archaeological ruins in virtual reality. The ancient city of Sagalassos in Turkey was used as a test case. Within this project a virtual excavation documentation … Continue reading 3D Murale →

This project named Computer Aided Classification of Ceramics is performed in cooperation with the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Vienna in order to automate the documentation process of archaeological sherds. The project is parsupported by the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)) under Project P13385-INF. The project started … Continue reading Computer Aided Classification of Ceramics →

Events that made my day – creating a visual diary … or the “emotional camera” project   This project aims at developing techniques and algorithms to be used with a wearable “always-on” camera, which will automatically identify and select the best frames representing the personal “highlights” of the day. “Always-on” wearable cameras are already on … Continue reading emoCam →

The goal of SCIBA (Smart Cameras for Intelligent Behavior Analysis) is to develop robust techniques for the recognition of unexpected behavior of crowds and individuals in complex situations. The goal encloses the following aims: a. Combine statistical features with tracking of individuals. Statistical features are more robust for a global decision of unexpected behavior with … Continue reading SCIBA →

ILAC (Image-based cLassification of Ancient Coins) is a research project in an interdisciplinary topic, computer vision together with numismatics. Numismatics is at a point where it can benefit greatly from the application of computer vision methods, and in turn provides a large number of new, challenging and interesting conceptual problems and data for computer vision. … Continue reading ILAC →

Humans are dealing with 3D object detection and recognition in their everyday life. In computer vision applications, 3D information is often gathered by using multiple cameras. When multiple cameras having an overlapping view and a wide baseline are used it is not possible to reconstruct an observed object based on corresponding points because such features … Continue reading CAPRI →

In collaboration with the Institute of Slavic Studies (ISS), University of Vienna, this interdisciplinary project is devoted to the recording, investigation and edition of two medieval Slavonic manuscripts of extraordinary importance, discovered in 1975 in St. Catherine’s monastery on Mt. Sinai: “Euchologii Sinaitici pars nova” (Cod. Sin. slav. 1/N) and “Missale (Sacramentarium) Sinaiticum” (Cod. Sin. … Continue reading The Sinaitic Glagolitic Sacramentary (Euchologium) Fragments →

Correct identification of tree species from leaves, needles and bark is a task which requires expertise. With increasing capabilities of mobile devices, like resolution of the integrated cameras and more computing power these devices can be used to take over this task. Within a project with the “Österreichischen Bundesforste AG” (“Austrian Federal Forests”) the main … Continue reading Deep Green →

Optimizing the Workplace of ELderly Laborers: BE IN Good health! Most jobs require older adults (55+) to sit for eight hours (or even longer) while performing their tasks. In combination with not ergonomically designed working places and only little exercising, severe health problems can arise. Wellbeing offers a holistic platform, combining physical exercises, workplace ergonomics, … Continue reading wellbeing →