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Colloquium: Digital Technologies at the Service of Cultural Heritage

Event Details:

  • Date: 3rd Nov 2016, 16:00
  • Location: The Cyprus Institute – Guy Ourisson Building, Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Athalassa Campus

*The colloquium will be in English, the event is open to the public, light refreshments will be served after the talk.

Abstract:
Digital technologies have definitely influenced everyday life in the recent years. Especially, progress in Information and Communication Technologies has greatly affected documentation methods in all respects improving instrumentation and algorithm implementation. This technological progress includes digital data acquisition, instrumentation and software developments. The methods affected are mainly the data acquisition phase (image acquisition, scanning etc.) and in the processing stage the implementation of the computer vision algorithms to the traditional processing practices. In this talk the influence of modern digital technologies is presented and it is investigated how this fact may be exploited for the benefit of Cultural Heritage. In this respect contemporary documentation methods are briefly presented and critically evaluated and this effort is illustrated by practical examples in which the author was involved.

About the speaker:
a georgopoulosDr. Andreas Georgopoulos is Professor of Photogrammetry in the School of Rural & Surveying Eng. of NTUA. He graduated from the School of R&S Eng (1976) and obtained a Diploma (1977) and an MSc and later (1981) a PhD in Photogrammetry from University College London (University of London), where he first taught Photogrammetry for one year. Since 1985 he has been elected as a faculty member of NTUA and teaches Photogrammetry courses and in addition, courses on Metrology, Photographic Data Acquisition, Monument Surveys, etc. He has been director of the Laboratory of Photogrammetry since 1996 and has served as Vice Head (1998-2002) and Head (2002-2006) of the School and Vice-President of the NTUA Research Committee (2006-2010). Since 2005 he has been elected Executive Board member of CIPA-Heritage Documentation, he served as Secretary General (2011-2014) and since 2015 he is President.

Since 1985 he has participated in all research projects of the Laboratory of Photogrammetry concerned with Photogrammetry, Architectural Photogrammetry and Monument Recording, Digital and Analytical Photogrammetry and cadastral applications. He has been an instructor and organizer in numerous international Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. Since 2010 he is a Visiting Professor in the RLICC (Catholic University of Leuven) Postgraduate Course for Monument Preservation, Visiting professor of The Cyprus Institute (STARC) and CUT.
He has published more than 180 scientific articles in conference proceedings and peer reviewed journals on subjects concerned with Photogrammetry, geometric recording of Monuments, Digital Photogrammetry and automation techniques. His research interests focus mainly on geometric Recording of Monuments using contemporary techniques.

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This event is part of the CyI Colloquium Series

Additional Info

  • Time: 16:00
  • Speaker: Dr. Andreas Georgopoulos, Professor of Photogrammetry in the School of Rural & Surveying Eng. of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
  • Venue: The Cyprus Institute – Guy Ourisson Building, Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Athalassa Campus