Towards complete digital twins in cultural heritage with ART3mis 3D artifacts annotator

TL;DR

ART3mis is a general-purpose, user-friendly, feature-rich, interactive web-based textual annotation tool for 3D objects that enables the communication, distribution, and reuse of information as it complies with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model.

Abstract

Archaeologists, as well as specialists and practitioners in cultural heritage, require applications with additional functions, such as the annotation and attachment of metadata to specific regions of the 3D digital artifacts, to go beyond the simplistic three-dimensional (3D) visualization. Different strategies addressed this issue, most of which are excellent in their particular area of application, but their capacity is limited to their design's purpose; they lack generalization and interoperability. This paper introduces ART3mis, a general-purpose, user-friendly, feature-rich, interactive web-based textual annotation tool for 3D objects. Moreover, it enables the communication, distribution, and reuse of information as it complies with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model. It is primarily designed to help cultural heritage conservators, restorers, and curators who lack technical expertise in 3D imaging and graphics, handle, segment, and annotate 3D digital replicas of artifacts with ease.

Figures (5)

• Figure 1: Brush selection in ART3mis 2.0.
• Figure 2: Lasso selection in ART3mis 2.0.
• Figure 3: ART3mis 2.0 Web user interface.
• Figure 4: Automated saliency detection in ART3mis 2.0.
• Figure 5: Automated defects detection in ART3mis 2.0.