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ArchaeoInside: Multimodal Visualization of Augmented Reality and Interaction with Archaeological Artifacts

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2016)

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This paper reports on a system named ArchaeoInside designed in order to offer a virtual environment for archaeological exploration with large access to public, researchers and museum curators. ArchaeoInside project aims at recording, classifying, digitizing, accessing and presenting archaeological sites and artifacts in Augmented Reality.

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks are granted to Mr. Mihai Gligor, the principal investigator of the Seusa-Gorgan archaeological site for providing access and valuable information and to the enthusiastic team of students hearing Computer Science, namely Robert Iancu and Vlad Buda who have volunteered in gathering data from site, have widely contributed to the programming and digital representations of artefacts.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Alba Iulia, Romania

    Kadar Manuella & Domsa Ovidiu

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  1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Marinos Ioannides

  2. Arlington, VA, USA

    Eleanor Fink

  3. School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  4. Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin, Germany

    Monika Hagedorn-Saupe

  5. Promoter s.r.l., Peccioli, Italy

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  6. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  7. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vlatka Rajcic

  8. INSA, Strasbourg, France

    Pierre Grussenmeyer

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Manuella, K., Ovidiu, D. (2016). ArchaeoInside: Multimodal Visualization of Augmented Reality and Interaction with Archaeological Artifacts. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48496-9_60

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