e-Heritage 2014 - 3rd ACCV Workshop on e-Heritage

Historic monuments and heritage sites across the world are important sources of knowledge, depicting the evolution of mankind. These are not only irreplaceable assets that signify the culture and civilization of the past, but also masterpieces of accomplishments that symbolize the human potential. It is for this reason that globally many organizations have taken up the initiative to safeguard and preserve the heritage sites. Over the centuries, the heritage sites have witnessed a number of natural calamities and sabotage, resulting in their present ruined condition. Access to many such heritage sites is restricted, fearing the risk of further damage by visitors. One may think of physically renovating the heritage sites in order to preserve them. However, the renovation may not only pose danger to the undamaged monuments, but may also fail to mimic the skilful work of history. It would be interesting to have a heritage site reconstructed digitally, since such a process avoids physical contact to the monuments. The digitally reconstructed heritage site may then provide an unrestricted access for viewing the monuments in their entirety. Also, in today's world, preservation of the digitally reconstructed monuments would be inexpensive. Limited metadata is available when using images for describing the resources and contents. In addition, the information needs and tasks of cultural heritage users are often complex and diverse. Moreover, historical social information including architecture, music, languages, dances, customs etc. open newer horizons for research in the area of cultural heritage.
The main goals of this workshop are
to encourage collaboration between researchers engaged in work in this various specialist area related to cultural heritage
to identify a set of actions which the community should undertake to progress research in these areas
to showcase demos for state-of-the-art works
The 3rd ACCV Workshop on e-Heritage, will be held during Nov 1-2, 2014 at the Stephen Riady Centre on the National University of Singapore campus. The workshop will provide a platform for researchers to share their expertise in the area of digital heritage and applications.
Submissions are expected in the areas including, but not limited to,
2/3/4D data capturing, documentation and processing in Cultural Heritage
Immersive environments
Multimedia databases and digital libraries
Multimedia applications and services
Hardware and software for digital heritage in mobile scenarios
Material acquisition and presentation
Data acquisition technologies
Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral)
Interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
Haptic rendering including sound synthesis