Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World

In this genuinely productive interdisciplinary dialogue, engineering scientists, archaeologists and historians discuss how recent exciting developments in imaging, image analysis, and image display/diffusion can be applied to three-dimensional objects of material culture from the classical world, ranging from inscribed writing tablets to buildings and urban sites. The fifteen papers explore the ways in which the scientific contributors and the historians are thinking about subjectivity of interpretation, visual cognition, and the need to improve the presentation of evidence so as to feed directly back into their own scientific thinking and to encourage genuine innovation in developing methods of image-enhancement and the interpretation of objects.

Michael Brady & Alan K Bowman: Introduction; Alan K Bowman & R S O Tomlin: Wooden stilus tablets from Roman Britain; Michael Brady, Xiao-Bo Pan, Viet Schenk, Melissa Terns & Nicholas Molton: Shadow Stereo, image filtering, and constraint propagation; Carlo Vandecasteele, Karel Van Lerberghe, Johan Van Rompay, & Patrick Wambacq: Digitising cuneiform tablets; Jan O H Swantesson & Helmer Gustavson: Interpretation of ancient runic inscriptions by laser scanning; Michael Greenhalgh: Virtual reality, relative accuracy: modelling architecture and sculpture with VRML; Andrew D Fitzgibbon, Geoff Cross & Andrew Zisserman: Automatic creation of virtual artefacts from video sequences; Hugh Denard: At the foot of Pompey's statue: reconceiving Rome's theatrum lapideum; Luc Van Gool, Marc Pollefeys, Marc Proesmans & Alexey Zalesny: Modelling Sagalassos: creation of a 3D archaeological virtual site; Andrew M Wallace: Three-simensional laser imaging and processing in an archaeological context;; Jan J Koenderink: Movements of the mental eye in pictorial space; Christopher J Howgego: The potential for image analysis in numismatics; Eleni Schindler Kaudelka & Ulrike Fastner: Italian terra sigillata with appliqu? decoration: digitising, visualising & web-publishing; Roberto Cipolla & Kwan-Yee K Wong: Shape from profiles; R A H Heave & A J N W Prag: The skull as the armature of the face: reconstructing ancient faces; Alf Linney, Joao Campos & Ghassan Alusi: Reconstruction of a 3D mummy portrait from Roman Egypt