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Call for collaboration under the Greek National Project ‘Synthesis’

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The Institute for Language and Speech Processing has an open call for 7 external collaborators for the purposes of the Greek National Project ‘Synthesis‘. The call is open till July 18, 2014, 15:00. Collaboration involves: Development of a DBMS using international standards and best practices for web applications Development of interactive multimedia applications and 3D/VR […]

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Call for collaboration under the Greek National Project ‘GameIt’

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The Multimedia Research Group has an open call for 4 external collaborators for the purposes of the Greek National Project ‘GameIt‘. The call is open till June 19, 2014, 15:00. A brief description of the vacancies is as follows: Two (2) electrical or informatics engineers for the development of Ontology mapping system Serious games scenario

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VAMCT2013 – 1st International Workshop on “Virtual Archaeology: Museums & Cultural Tourism”

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The University of the Aegean, Dept. of Mediterranean Studies, Laboratory of Archaeometry (GR) in collaboration with: The University of the Aegean, Dept. of Product and Systems Design Engineering (GR) Athena-Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies (GR) Duke University, Dept. of Classical Studies (US) Under the Auspices of the Ministry Culture and

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Invited talks at AUTH seminar

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Anestis Koutsoudis and George Pavlidis participated in the Seminar “Diagnostic techniques in the science of artworks curation” organized by the Crossdisciplinary Postgraduade Programme “Protection, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, held 17th-19th Feb. 2012. This included invited talks at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a visit at the Multimedia

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Content-based Virtual Museum navigation

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Content based retrieval engine in a Virtual Museum of Pottery An interactive virtual museum of 3D pottery artefacts has been used as a case study. The virtual visitor can perform queries to the system like ‘Where in this 3D scene I can find vessels similar to this’. Again an attempt to combine a content-based retrieval

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Exploring 3D Scenes with keywords

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3DSSE is an experimental search engine that allows the user to explore 3D scenes using keywords. The engine is based on the annotation of 3D scenes in order to identify and describe specific ontologies within that scene. The metadata that follow each 3D scene contain information about each ontology (e.g. building, statue, artefact) as well

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3D digitization of Urban Areas

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The project involved the three-dimensional digitization and reconstruction of urban areas. The project deals with the idea of combining the usage of commercial and open source software systems in 3D graphics in order to produce realistic virtual walkthroughs for culture heritage promotion with a minimum budget and low cost infrastructure. We have attempted the 3D

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3D digitization of the Byzantine fortress of Kavala

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The Byzantine fortress of Kavala is located on top of the peninsula of Virgin Mary, where the old town is built. In Byzantine times and later, many successive reconstructions and alterations to the fortifications have been made by the Byzantines, the Venetians and the Turks. The fortress at its present condition was built during the

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3D Digitization of Monuments

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Case: Digitization of Religious Monuments in the region of Mani, Peloponnese The project involves the digitization and 3D reconstruction of a Byzantine church in the area of Stavri in Mani and the Post-Byzantine church of Aghios Vasileios in the Kelefa settlement. The goal of the project was the universal dissemination of the monuments. The virtual

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Third International Conference of Museology

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A very successful participation of the Department in the Third International Conference of Museology held at Mytilene, Greece, on 5-9 June, 2006. Two papers and two posters accepted for publication. G. Pavlidis, D. Tsiafakis, F. Arnaoutoglou, K. Balla, A. Pikrakis, C. Chamzas, “Musical Universe” G. Pavlidis, D. Tsiafakis, A. Koutsoudis, F. Arnaoutoglou, V. Tsioukas, C.

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