Scan4Reco will develop a novel portable, integrated and modular solution for customized and thus cost-effective, automatic digitization and analysis of cultural heritage objects (CHOs), even in situ.
A multi-sensorial 3D scanning – facilitated by a mechanical arm \u2013 will collect multi-spectra data and then, a hierarchical approach for 3D reconstruction of CHOs will be applied, enabling multi-layered rendering, advancing both analysis and 3D
printing procedures. The goal will be to create highly accurate digital surrogates of CHOs, providing also detailed insight over their surface and also the volumetric structure, material composition and shape\/structure of underlying materials, enabling
rendering either via visualization techniques or via multi-material 3D printing. Material analyses will be applied, to understand the heterogeneous nature and complex structures of CHOs, to identify the
broad and varied classes of materials and to understand their degradation mechanisms over time, deriving context-dependant ageing models per material. Uni-material models will be spatiotemporally simulated, based on environmental
phenomena modeling, so as to collectively render imminent degradation effects on the multi-material CHOs, enabling prediction and recreation of their future appearance, as well as automatic restoration, reaching even back to their original shape. Scan4Reco will further facilitate conservation, by indicating spots\/segments of cultural objects that are in eminent conservation need and require special care, while suggestions will be provided by a dedicated Decision Support System (DSS), over conservation methods that should be followed.
All the above will be validated on real case scenarios involving heterogeneous objects of various sizes and materials, in 2 pilot real-world use cases. To enhance the accessibility of the digitized cultural objects to the scientific community, field experts and the general public, a virtual model of a museum will be launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11186,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-19614","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"title":"Multimodal Scanning of Cultural Heritage Assets for their multilayered digitization and preventive conservation via spatiotemporal 4D Reconstruction and 3D Printing","acronym":"Scan4Reco","project_uuid":"669cffc4-5410-1033-95fe-0030485a3848","start_date":"01\/10\/2015","end_date":"30\/09\/2018","funder":"EU H2020","partners":"\n
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|---|---|---|
| ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS<\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| IDRYMA ORMYLIA<\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fraunhofer IGD<\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Verona<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Opificio delle Pietre Dure<\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| BWTek Europe GmbH<\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Avasha AG<\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Research for Science, Art, and Technology LTD<\/td>\n | United Kingdom<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"","project_status":"Completed","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10233,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:13","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:13","post_content":"Enrico Gobbetti is the director of Visual and Data-intensive Computing (ViDiC) at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Italy. He holds an Engineering degree (1989) and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), as well as Full Professor Habilitations in Computer Science and Information Processing from the Italian Ministry of University and Research. 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He has strong expertise in GPU-accelerated and web-based rendering, with a solid background in C++, OpenGL\/WebGL, GLSL, and WebXR development. He is a contributor to OpenLIME, an open-source platform for interactive visualization and relightable model rendering in scientific and cultural heritage contexts. In addition to software development, he has extensive experience as a Linux system and HPC cluster administrator. He has developed tools for system and UPS monitoring, implemented automated backup solutions, and manages web infrastructures based on CMSs for research initiatives and international conferences such as Eurographics and EuroVis. His scientific contributions have been published in top-tier journals such as ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Computers & Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), and Solar Energy. 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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. 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