Achievement

IGERT-TEECH Trainee David Vanoni is developing an augmented reality (AR) technique for the interactive exploration of paintings, called ARtifact. ARtifact uses a video-see through approach to intuitively augment real-world spaces with rich, multispectral data records. The ability to synthesize data, capturing the characteristics of a historic artifact such as a fresco, has allowed researchers to holistically explore its composition, by studying pigment and material variations, the underlying wall, cracks, voids, areas of stucco delamination, etc., in a hands-on approach, by simply pointing a tablet device at the fresco in question. The tablet in turn integrates all of the data in a multi-touch enabled setting, allowing data layers to be intuitively “wiped-off,” and as such various data records (UV fluorescence, thermal, infrared, etc), to be concurrently viewed in the context of a perfectly co-registered physical artifact.