EXCALIBUR will studies, develops, and evaluates a holistic framework that offers innovative tools and methods for enhanced study, improved conservation and restoration works, and knowledge of cultural heritage objects, based on their digital twins.
\nEXCALIBUR focuses on solutions that assist the study, conservation, and restoration of burial excavations, remains, and findings at the level of (a) burial sites, excavations, and surroundings, (b) tomb structures and burial decorations, (c) artefacts, burial findings, traditions and ceremonies, and (d) human and burial remain. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75337,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-75339","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"title":"Advanced toolkits for interdisciplinary and enhanced study, conservation, and restoration in burial excavations and findings","acronym":"EXCALIBUR","project_uuid":"bb5a2807-9a0b-11f0-b8ab-005056a5f278","project_image_header":false,"proj_website":"","start_date":"01\/10\/2025","end_date":"31\/03\/2029","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS<\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN<\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen-Department of Geography<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ERATOSTHENES CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE<\/td>\n | Cyprus<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| DIMOKRITIO PANEPISTIMIO THRAKIS<\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| DIETHNES PANEPISTIMIO ELLADOS<\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| OKYS LTD<\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| CATALINK LIMITED<\/td>\n | Cyprus<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| INITIATIVE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION<\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| CYPRUS SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON MONUMENTS AND SITES<\/td>\n | Cyprus<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| SOPRINTENDENZA ARCHEOLOGIA BELLE ARTI E PAESAGGIO PER LA CITTA METROPOLITANA DI CAGLIARI E LE PROVINCE DI ORISTANO E SUD SARDEGNA<\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| BAYERISCHES STAATSMINISTERIUM FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST<\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| PIX4D SA<\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","project_status":"Execution","funder":"Horizon Europe","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. Prior to joining CRS4, he held research and\/or teaching positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore MD, USA, and the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (NASA\/CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA. At CRS4, Enrico develops and manages a research program in visual and data-intensive computing supported through institutional, industrial and government grants, including many national and international projects. His research spans many areas of visual and data-intensive computing and is widely published in major journals and conferences. The primary focus is the study and creation of innovative, intelligent, and scalable solutions for acquiring, creating, processing, distributing, exploring, and analyzing complex and\/or massive datasets derived from simulations or measurements of phenomena, objects, environments, or real-world processes. He regularly serves the scientific community through participation in editorial boards, program committees, working groups and steering boards, as well as through the organization and chairing of conferences. He is a Fellow of Eurographics.","post_title":"Enrico Gobbetti","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"enrico-gobbetti","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-11 12:11:30","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-11 10:11:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/enrico-gobbetti\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10077,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:26","post_content":"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.","post_title":"Ruggero Pintus","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ruggero-pintus","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-11 12:13:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-11 10:13:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/ruggero-pintus\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10141,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:03","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:03","post_content":"Fabio Bettio is an electronics engineer, software developer, and technologist specializing in visual computing and scientific visualization. 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. His work has also been presented at renowned international conferences, including Eurographics, EuroVis, ISMAR, and Digital Heritage.","post_title":"Fabio Bettio","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fabio-bettio","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-11 12:10:11","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-11 10:10:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/fabio-bettio\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10283,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:15","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:15","post_content":"Fabio Marton is a researcher in the Visual Computing (ViC) group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). He holds a Laurea (M. Sc.) degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova. His current research interests include out-of-core data processing, compression multiresolution modeling and time-critical rendering. He has participated as a key developer in industrial and research projects that have led to the development of state-of-the-art tools for large scale model rendering. He has co-authored papers in major international refereed journals and conferences, including SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and IEEE Visualization. He has been EGPGV (Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics) symposium chair (Cagliari, 2012) and paper co-chair (Girona, 2013). He is IPC member for Web3D from 2011. He serves as reviewer for international computer graphics journals and conferences. Before joining CRS4, he worked on 3D scanning at LMTT Padova and Optonet Brescia.","post_title":"Fabio Marton","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fabio-marton","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-11 12:12:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-11 10:12:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/fabio-marton\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":9699,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:26:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:26:44","post_content":"","post_title":"Antonio Zorcolo","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"antonio-zorcolo","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-11 12:14:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-11 10:14:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/antonio-zorcolo\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |