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Revisiting district six: a case study of digital heritage reconstruction from archival photographs

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Christopher de Kadt,

Patrick MaraisAuthors Info & Claims

AFRIGRAPH '09: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa

Pages 13 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/1503454.1503457

Published: 04 February 2009 Publication History

Abstract

This paper investigates the digital reconstruction of destroyed buildings from small sets of old, uncalibrated photographs. The application domain is the heritage preservation of District Six -- a mixed race area in Cape Town that was leveled during the South African Apartheid regime and whose residents were forcibly removed.

Our framework uses a combination of semi-automatic camera calibration, model-based architecture-specific photogrammetry, and texture synthesis to reconstruct the geometry and texture of a building so that it can be incorporated into a heritage-based virtual environment, such as a museum display. These techniques are well established in isolation; the purpose here is to discover if they can be adapted to damaged and uncalibrated photographs, where the time periods and chromatic schemes differ or where, in the worst case, only a single photograph is available.

To test the effectiveness of the reconstruction framework we consider three representative cases of District Six architecture. All three cases were reconstructed successfully with some provisos concerning uneven ground, intricate building features, and unfavourable camera angles.

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Revisiting district six: a case study of digital heritage reconstruction from archival photographs
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Graphics recognition and interpretation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
  2. Computer graphics

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AFRIGRAPH '09: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa

February 2009

113 pages

ISBN:9781605584287

DOI:10.1145/1503454

Conference Chairs:
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University of Johannesburg
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University of Cape Town
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University of Washington
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University of Cape Town
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Mustafah SKhalid HIsmail A(2015)Emotional Selling on Social Media: The ‘Punctum’ of Personality and PhotographsHCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts10.1007/978-3-319-21383-5_16(97-102)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2015
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Tan KLim CTalib A(2013)Mobile Virtual Heritage Exploration with Heritage Hunt with a Case Study of George Town, Penang, MalaysiaModern Entrepreneurship and E-Business Innovations10.4018/978-1-4666-2946-2.ch009(115-126)Online publication date: 2013
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Tan KLim CTalib A(2011)Mobile Virtual Heritage Exploration with Heritage Hunt with a Case Study of George Town, Penang, MalaysiaInternational Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation10.4018/jeei.20111001062:4(74-86)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2011
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