PRESIOUS in media.

Gemini Magazine

An article on the PRESIOUS project is hosted in the September 2014 edition of the Gemini magazine aims is to inform on cutting-edge research conducted at NTNU and Sintef.

Made equipment - saved the research (Gemini 2015) The erosion chambers that were developed as part of PRESIOUS at NTNU, using Arduino microcontrollers and 3D printed parts, feature in an article in the Gemini magazine (popular dissemination outlet for NTNU and Sintef). The article is a case study of technologies for realizing ideas at an affordable cost.

NRK interview

NRK interviewed members of the PRESIOUS team as well as a Nidaros Workshop conservator during the second differential scan for the erosion simulator at Nidaros Cathedral, Norway on 25.9.2014. The high-accuracy 3D scanning technique for erosion measurement was elaborated upon by Dirk Rieke-Zapp of Breuckmann Gmbh. Theoharis Theoharis of NTNU described the main objective behind the NTNU work, which is to create an erosion simulator for specific types of stone and stone monuments under defined conditions. Nidaros Workshop Conservator Ronald Huebner described the relation of the work to the conservation process. You can watch the interview.

eCult Winter Stage

How precious is PRESIOUS – the company perspective
Who: Dr Dirk Rieke-Zapp, Breuckmann GmbH
Where: eCult Winter Stage - the Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

The eCult Ambassadors Winter Stage was organised by the eCult project together with the Acropolis Museum and took place in Athens, Greece, on 8 – 9 December 2014. There was a huge interest in the event, with more registered participants than expected. Participation in the eCult Winter Stage was meant to assist eCult "ambassadors" in becoming the proactive mediators between technology providers and cultural heritage stakeholders, through novel hands-on activities to provide participants with a deeper insight into the state of the art technologies for Cultural Heritage coming from EU funded projects such as CHESS, meSch, PRESIOUS, TAGCLOUR, LoCloud or the technologies used in the collection of the Acropolis Museum.

The company's perspective of the results of PRESIOUS was presented on the first day of the event and the presentation by Breuckmann GmbH is now online.

Furthermore, the scope and achievements so far of the PRESIOUS project were showcased to the visitors through an extensive running presentation, a poster and a live demonstration of the automatic reassembly procedure.  

2nd place in the SIGGRAPH 2015 ACM Student Research Competition

The joint work of the AUEB Graphics Group and the Visual Analytics Group of the University of Konstanz on  Fractured 3D Object Restoration and Completion won the 2nd prize at the ACM Student Research Competition that took place at SIGGRAPH 2015.SIGGRAPH 2015 hosts an ACM Student Research Competition, which recognizes research work by individual graduate students or teams of undergraduates. Posters selected to compete in the SRC are judged in two stages. In the first stage, a panel of distinguished judges views the SRC posters during the poster sessions and selects six semi-finalists. These semi-finalists present their work to SIGGRAPH 2015 attendees during the ACM SRC Final Presentation. At the end of the presentations, the judges announce the first-, second-, and third-place winners in the undergraduate and graduate categories. First-place undergraduate and graduate winners go on to the nationwide ACM Student Research Competition.