Saving Cultural Heritage with Digital Make-Believe: Machine Learning and Digital Techniques to the Rescue

The application of digital methods for content-based curation and dissemination of cultural heritage data offers unique advantages for physical sites at risk of damage. In areas affected by 2011 Arab spring, digital may be the only approach to create believable cultural experiences. We propose a framework incorporating computational methods such as: digital image processing, multi-lingual text analysis, and 3D modelling, to facilitate enhanced data archive, federated search, and analysis. Potential use cases include experiential search, damage assessment, virtual site reconstruction, and provision of augmented information for education and cultural preservation. This paper presents initial findings from an empirical evaluation of existing scene classification methods, applied to detection of cultural heritage sites in the Palmyra region. Results indicate that deep learning offers an appropriate solution to semantic annotation of publicly available cultural heritage image data.

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A. M. Yasser

K. Clawson

C. Bowerman

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-5

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[ ¹ ]Faculty of Computer Science, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, SR1 3SD, UK

[ ² ]Physics Department, Faculty of Science at Qena, South Valley University, 83523, Egypt

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.97

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] [1] M. Vecco 2010 A definition of cultural heritage: From the tangible to the intangible Journal of Cultural Heritage 11 3 321 324

[2] [2] H. SilvermanD. F. Ruggles 2007 Cultural heritage and human rights Cultural heritage and human rights 3 29 Springer New York

[3] [3] D. Barthel-Bouchier 2016 Cultural heritage and the challenge of sustainability Routledge

[4] [4] J. LlamasP.M. LeronesE. ZalamaJ. Gómez-García-Bermejo 2016 Applying Deep Learning Techniques to Cultural Heritage Images Within the INCEPTION Project M. Ioannides et al Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection EuroMed 2016 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10059 Springer, Cham.

[5] [5] R. Di GiulioF. MaiettiE. PiaiaM. MediciF. FerrariB. Turillazzi 2017 Integrated Data Capturing Requirements For 3d Semantic Modelling of Cultural Heritage: The Inception Protocol, Int Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-2/W3 251 257 doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W3-251-2017.

[6] [6] S ShankarD RobertsonY IoannouA CriminisiR Cipolla 2016 Refining Architectures of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

[7] [7] SCA http://www.sca-egypt.org/eng/main.htm 12/5/2017

[8] [8] G. Csurka,C. R. DanceL. FanJ. WillamowskiC. Bray Visual Categorization with Bags of Keypoints Workshop on Statistical Learning in Computer Vision. ECCV 1 1-22 12

[9] [9] Jia Deng, et al "Imagenet: A large-scale hierarchical image database." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009 CVPR 2009 IEEE Conference on. IEEE 2009

[10] [10] Alex Krizhevsky,Ilya SutskeverGeoffrey E. Hinton "Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks." Advances in neural information processing systems 2012

[11] [11] Cloud Vision API https://cloud.google.com/vision/

[12] [12] F Chollet, others 2015 Keras https://github.com/fchollet/keras GitHub

[13] [13] Blundell CharlesBenigno UriaAlexander PritzelYazhe LiAvraham RudermanJoel Z LeiboJack RaeDaan WierstraDemis Hassabis 2016 Model-Free Episodic Control

[14] [14] BlundellUriaPritzelLiRudermanLeiboRaeWiestraHassabid 2017 Mode Free Episodic Control

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