3D Pitoti Project (2013-2016)

The ambitious €2.9m 3D-PITOTI project involves a multidisciplinary team of over 30 scientists from across Europe and focuses on rock art in the Valcamonica Valley, Italy. This UNESCO World Heritage site in the Lombardy region of northern Italy has the largest group of this ‘rock art’ in Europe. Tens of thousands of images span a period from many centuries BC into medieval times. The aim of this project is to devise a coarse-to-fine 3D reconstruction and visualization pipeline to preserve this unique heritage and to provide access to the enriched high resolution digital rock-art for scientists, museum visitors, school children and web users. More information can be found here.

Related publications:

UAV-based Autonomous Image Acquisition with Multi-View Stereo Quality Assurance by Confidence Prediction
Mostegel, C., Rumpler, M., Fraundorfer, F. and Bischof, H.,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2016.
Using Self- Contradiction to Learn Confidence Measures in Stereo Vision
Mostegel, C., Rumpler, M., Fraundorfer, F. and Bischof, H.,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016.
The 3D-PITOTI Project with a Focus on Multi-Scale 3D Reconstruction using Autonomous UAVs
Mostegel, C., Poier G., Reinbacher C., Hofer M., Fraundorfer F., Bischof H., Höll T., Holler G., Pinz A.,
1st OAGM-ARW Joint Workshop: Vision Meets Robotics, 2016.
Interactive Segmentation of Rock-Art in High-Resolution 3D Reconstructions
Zeppelzauer, M., Poier, G., Seidl, M., Reinbacher, C., Breiteneder, C., Bischof, H., Schulter, S.,
Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Heritage, 2015. Best Paper Award.
Active monocular localization: Towards autonomous monocular exploration for multirotor MAVs
Mostegel, C., Wendel, A. and Bischof, H.,
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014. Best Student Paper Award - Finalist. [Video]