Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”

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ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the innovative use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of Cultural Heritage. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that demonstrate innovative use of technology for the discovery, analysis, interpretation and presentation of findings as well as manuscripts that illustrate applications in the Cultural Heritage sector that challenge the computational technologies and suggest new research opportunities in computer science.

The July 2011 issue of the journal IEEE Computer hosts a special issue on "Computationa Archaeology", which includes a paper by R. Scopigno and colleagues of the Visual Computing Lab entitled: "3D models for Cultural heritage: beyond plain visualization". The paper presents some recent experiences and results of the Visual Computing Lab in projects concerning the use of new digital tools and 3D representations for the study or the restoration of Cultural heritage.

Link: Annex

Link: http://www.arqueologiavirtual.com/arqueo/premios-tartessos/premios-2011

The prize, granted by Spanish Society on Virtual Archeology (SEAV) during the annual conference Archaeologica 2.0. held in Seville, Spain - June 22-24, 2011, is given to international personalities who have contributed significantly to the development of digital technologies or new methodologies in archaeological research, and cultural heritage management.

R. Scopigno has been awarded for his work in new digital technologies for 3D representation, and the use of 3D digital media in the study, analysis and restoration of works of art.

Link: http://www.premiovespucci.org/

Gianpaolo Palma was awarded for his Master Thesis work on PTM/RTI visualization. The thesis concerns new methods and a system to visualize Reflection Transformation Images (RTI), i.e. images that allow the user to select interactively the illumination. Those images are the result of multiple acquisition of the same region, photographed under different illumination conditions; a further processing of the input images makes it possible to produce an image-based representation of the reflection properties of the surface depicted, which is sufficiently compact and easy to render.

This work has been published on: Dynamic Shading Enhancement for Reflectance Transformation Imaging - Gianpaolo Palma, Massimiliano Corsini, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno, Mark Mudge ACM Journ. on Computers and Cultural heritag, Volume 3, Number 2 - set 2010