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Ruggero Pintus studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari in Italy,where he received his master’s degree in April 2003. In 2004, he started working as a researcher at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE). He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 2007, working on Computer Vision algorithms and software applied to Scanning Electron Microscope. He also supported didactic activities. In the same year, he was awarded with an Italian Government Grant, and he worked as a visiting researcher in the Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, California, US. His research focused on photometric stereo techniques applied to conventional flatbed scanners. Since November 2007 he has been part of the Visual Computing group of CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia). His research interests have shifted towards Computer Graphics topics. In particular, the primary focus is the development of algorithms for acquisition, out-of-core processing, time-critical rendering and 3D printing of massive models, mostly applied to large scale color and geometry Cultural Heritage datasets. In 2013 he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate Research Scientist in the Computer Graphics Group at the Yale University. His research focused on 3D model scanning and processing, and on multispectral imaging acquisition and document layout analysis techniques applied to historical, handwritten medieval manuscripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4099,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-10077","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"name":"Ruggero","surname":"Pintus","email":"ruggero@crs4.it","phone":"","user_uuid":"e3c3a828-99fc-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","personal_page":"","google_scholar_id":"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=EkK91jIAAAA","position":"Researcher","microsoft_academic_id":"","project_coordinator":[{"ID":12686,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:18:24","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:18:24","post_content":"The project involves the digitization of the shape and color of four new artifacts from the MONTEPRAMA sculpture complex. This digitization will cover the artifacts in their conservation state both before and after restoration, with the production of sub-millimeter resolution colored models. The models will be converted into the multi-resolution format, developed at CRS4, necessary for real-time visualization and integrated into the database and virtual exploration system, developed as well at CRS4 for the Digital Mont'e Prama project. 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The work is carried out within the framework of multi-year collaborative activities with superintendencies, museums, the Sardinian Regional Authority, and the Mont'e Prama Foundation, covering all aspects related to the development and application of new methods and technologies dedicated to cultural heritage. Specifically, the Foundation's request focuses on aspects of risk protection, enhancement, communication, and dissemination.","post_title":"MONTEPRAMA-EPG","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"monteprama-epg","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:02","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/monteprama-epg\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19590,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:45","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:45","post_content":"Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics international conference - Cagliari 2019","post_title":"STAG2019","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"stag2019","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:34:31","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:34:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/stag2019\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19634,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:22:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:22:07","post_content":"","post_title":"ANELA","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anela","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:35:52","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:35:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/anela\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":13316,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:13","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:13","post_content":"Specialized service targeting the digitization, processing, and visualizatoin of objects and environments connected to the Is Pirixeddus Necropolis in Sant'Antioco (Sardinia).","post_title":"ISPIRIXEDDUS","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ispirixeddus","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:17","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/ispirixeddus\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14758,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:26","post_content":"The collaboration involves a service composed of analysis and consulting activities provided by CRS4 to the Foundation regarding the methods of physical reproduction applicable to the statues of the Mont'e Prama complex, starting from the models acquired and reconstructed using the methods introduced by CRS4. The service also includes the production of a digital model prepared for 3D fabrication of the statue named \u201cManneddu,\u201d the provision of a short interactive exploration video of the set of 3D models in the collection, and the provision of images of the 3D models.","post_title":"MONTEPRAMA MANNEDDU","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"monteprama-manneddu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:24","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/monteprama-manneddu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19623,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:21:46","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:21:46","post_content":"The project aims to digitize the main new artifacts from the Mont'e Prama complex and to integrate them into CRS4's multiresolution visualization system.","post_title":"MONTEPRAMA 4","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"monteprama-4","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:35:32","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:35:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/monteprama-4\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19664,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:23:01","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:23:01","post_content":"Yale University, through the Yale Digital Collections Center (YDC2), and together with its international partners, is working on the development of a world-wide community of interoperable repositories, which provide consistent access to digital representations of the manuscripts in a way that lets scholars easily and consistently view and compare manuscripts from any participating institution. The manuscript images are openly on the web and available in its Content Delivery Service through an IIIF compliant scalable image server. In this scenario, CRS4 will perform research and development of computing tools and techniques to analyze and index such kind of cultural heritage databases. The main goal will be the investigation of methods to perform document layout analysis in the case of a huge heterogeneous corpus of illuminated medieval manuscripts, with different writing styles, languages, and with various problematic attributes, such as holes, spots, ink bleed-through, ornamentation, background noise, and overlapping text lines. 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Through the centralised, interoperable, and human-based platform of EXCALIBUR, toolkits of usable, open-source, and cost-affordable solutions will be available for the wide spectrum of cultural heritage. The DNA of EXCALIBUR consists of the real user needs, as archaeologists, bioanthropologists, museologists, conservators, historians, researchers, and scholars co-define the requirements and their needs, co-design the toolkits, test, evaluate, and validate the tools through representative case studies and an open call for support to third parties, and finally using, the innovative and enhanced solutions of the project through the ECCCH. In addition, a multidisciplinary group of experts and sciences from European research, academia, and creative entrepreneurship join their forces, sharing their knowledge, designing and developing through cutting-edge technologies, and delivering breath-taking, but at the same time usable, cost-affordable, and sustainable solutions for enhanced study, improved conservation and restoration works, and knowledge of cultural heritage. The holistic framework and the innovative solutions of the EXCALIBUR project will be designed and developed according to the guidelines of the ECCCH infrastructure and services, as well as with close collaboration with the ECCCH ecosystem. Training, open call, communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities are included.\nCRS4 will focus on the research and development of advanced scalable solutions for the digital acquisition of detailed visual and\/or geometric surface characteristics using Multi-Light Image Collections (MLICs) methodologies, e.g., including but not restricted to Reflectance Transformation Imaging. CRS4 will leverage its expertise in this field to create an innovative flexible and scalable framework for capturing free-form MLIC data, characterised by enhanced accuracy, reliability and versatility and usable for mass-production of digital representations of CH assets. The practical outcome will consist in (a) a protocol for quickly acquiring detailed surface representations using a single camera and freely moving lights; (b) intelligent methods and tools for automatically characterising viewing and illumination conditions, without needing specialised setups and\/or calibration targets such as glossy spheres or radiometric targets; and (c) intelligent methods and tools for creating reliable surface representations with minimum user intervention.","post_title":"EXCALIBUR","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"excalibur","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:31:53","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:31:53","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/excalibur\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":12553,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:17:36","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:17:36","post_content":"ECHOES aims to create the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) as a shared platform for heritage professionals and researchers to access data, innovative scientific and training resources and advanced digital tools co-developed by the heritage community according to their specific needs. ECHOES will bring together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage (CH) field, which consists of various actors from different sectors and disciplines, into a new community around the Digital Commons. Going beyond the strict focus on assets and the mere digitization of Heritage, ECHOES intends to generate a visionary paradigm shift in the CH field. Adopting a holistic approach, ECHOES will also enable digitizing the existing knowledge of Heritage objects, whether tangible or intangible. It will create a digital environment enabling collaborative analysis of CH assets, facts, and phenomena. In this environment, actors \u2013 humans or Artificial Intelligence \u2013 can develop their interpretations, thereby enriching the knowledge of CH and their surroundings. The digital environment proposed by ECHOES will empower users to interact with, manipulate and enrich Digital\u00a0Twins, leading to new, jointly developed scientific knowledge. 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