Heike Messemer

• Dr.
• TUD Dresden University of Technology

3D computer-based visualization refers to all those methodologies adopted to produce, represent, describe, transmit, and present graphically/visually digital 3D models in a way that is perceivable by the human eye. Visualization is one of the core aspects of 3D reconstruction because it is the most effective medium to synthesize complex data in a v...

This chapter introduces key concepts of 3D modeling in the humanities. A 3D model can represent a great variety of objects. The objects of 3D modeling of historical architecture are lost or extant buildings, their modifications, and designs that were never executed. These buildings are as much part of the cultural heritage as their plans. The chapt...

As this chapter shows, digital 3D reconstructions of historic architecture serve many purposes in research and related areas. This comprises answering research questions by creating a 3D model, preserving cultural heritage, communicating knowledge in education, and providing a structure for knowledge organization. The process of creating a 3D recon...

This chapter is proposed to provide an overview of the different types of legal rights and legislation relating to 3D reconstruction. Since reconstructions originate from various sources and comprise intellectual work by multiple persons, they affect different levels of legal and property rights, although the specific legal situation greatly depend...

The chapter introduces the concepts of the raw model and informative model; it clarifies the concept of semantic segmentation and defines the digital representation methods and 3D modeling techniques; finally, it lists the different configuration spaces of a 3D model in different software packages.

Currently, digital reconstructions are mainly a process in one single context by interdisciplinary workgroups using expert technologies. 3D reconstructions in the humanities are primarily created within long-term interdisciplinary projects. This chapter provides an overview of the team processes and workflows to create 3D reconstructions. Interdisc...

This chapter provides an overview of the scholarly communities in which the digital 3D reconstruction is used as a method. (Visual) digital humanities—besides digital heritage and humanities disciplines such as digital art history or digital archaeology—marks the disciplinary space in which 3D reconstruction in the humanities is discussed and metho...

Currently, a large variety of infrastructures are targeting 3D models. Recently, several overview reports on extant platforms and repositories [1–5] and 3D visualization frameworks and formats [6] were compiled. Infrastructures differ from services by including tools or services and facilities for operation. Particularly for 3D models, there is a m...

The documentation of the working steps, the decisions made in a reconstruction, the applied method, and the results form one of the cornerstones of scientific practice. Over the centuries, scientific publication established itself with fixed basic principles, such as verifiability of methods, objectivity, disclosure of sources, comprehensibility of...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help to interpret and present this big data of historical information on mobile apps in creative and interesting ways. Therefore, building an AI-supported mobile app by using this big data to travel through the history of an architectural icon is the aim of this project. Short description of the app: Travel virtuall...

Museums around the world possess hundreds of thousands of priceless objects, which have stories to tell about human history. While students and scholars study them, even the general public is interested in these stories. If there is a way to automate the information delivery system about these objects it will be of immense value, e.g. it will suppo...

From 2016 to 2021 the research group HistStadt4D investigated and developed methods and technologies to transfer extensive repositories of historical photographs and their contextual information into a 3D spatial model, with an additional temporal component. The aim was to make content accessible to researchers and the public, via a 4D browser and...

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the Second International Conference on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries, UHDL 2019, held in Dresden, Germany, in October 2021. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. They are organized in the...

Museums all over the world collect and present an uncountable number of precious objects to preserve the cultural heritage of mankind. These art works are subject to the study of scholars , students and the general public alike. Advancing the information delivery system to provide the data of these objects would be of great value to not only to spe...

As the amount of data is growing rapidly artificial intelligence is getting increasingly important in the field of digital humans in general and in the field of art history in specific since in the 2010s more and more projects using AI have developed (Bell & Ommer 2018). The area of application is widening as The Alan Turing Institute indicated in...

The Urban History 4D project investigates and develops approaches to repositories of images of the city of Dresden. Images and plans provide information on the appearance and architecture of the city as well as their development over time. Access to the information repositories relevant for both the general public and scientific research is usually...

Digital 3D models of historical architecture – Development, potentials and analysis of a new visual medium from an art historical perspective for the first time offers a comprehensive historical overview of the genesis of digital architectural reconstructions from an art historical perspective. The central aim of the book is to show the potential o...

Digitized historical photographs are invaluable sources and key items for scholars in Cultural Heritage (CH) research. Properties of photographic items, such as position and orientation of the camera, can be automatically estimated using Structure from Motion (SfM) algorithms to enable spatial queries on image repositories. Interactive spatial and...

Bilder sind eine der Hauptquellen für wissenschaftliche Arbeit im Bereich der Kunstgeschichte. Darüber hinaus stellen Bilder ein wertvolles Werkzeug für die wissenschaftliche Kommunikation und Publikation in der kunsthistorischen Forschung dar. Frühere Studien haben gezeigt, dass die Verfügbarkeit digitaler Bilder KunsthistorikerInnen vor Probleme...

Online verfügbare Bildrepositorien stellen im digitalen Zeitalter insbesondere für KunsthistorikerInnen zunehmend wichtige Recherchewerkzeuge dar. Ziel der Nachwuchsforschungs-gruppe HistStadt4D ist es, multimediale Möglichkeiten zur Suche, 4D-Darstellung und Analyse von bestehenden Bilddigitalisaten zu entwickeln und damit ein neues Forschungswerk...

The interdisciplinary research group on four-dimensional research and communication of urban history (Urban History 4D) aims to investigate and develop methods and technologies to access extensive repositories of historical media and their contextual information in a spatial model, with an additional temporal component. This will make content acces...

Digitale 3D-Rekonstruktionen von historischer Architektur werden seit über 30 Jahren im wissenschaftlichen Kontext erstellt und als Präsentationsmedien und Forschungswerkzeuge verwendet. Sie tragen nicht nur dazu bei, Erkenntnisse und Hypothesen zu einem Bauwerk zu visualisieren, sondern sie können auch im Laufe des Erstellungsprozesses neue Forsch...

3D reconstructions are important media to educate and investigate history and to research cultural heritage. Against the background of networking and monitoring activities of the workgroup for Digital Reconstruction of the Association for Digital Humanities in the German-speaking area this paper is dedicated to showcase and systematise a range of c...