ART3mis: Ray-Based Textual Annotation on 3D Cultural Objects
This addresses the need for user-friendly annotation tools for cultural heritage conservators, restorers, and curators, though it is incremental as it builds on existing domain-specific approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling non-technical cultural heritage professionals to annotate 3D digital objects by presenting ART3mis, a general-purpose tool that allows real-time handling, segmenting, and textual annotation of detailed 3D cultural artefacts with storage in JSON format.
Beyond simplistic 3D visualisations, archaeologists, as well as cultural heritage experts and practitioners, need applications with advanced functionalities. Such as the annotation and attachment of metadata onto particular regions of the 3D digital objects. Various approaches have been presented to tackle this challenge, most of which achieve excellent results in the domain of their application. However, they are often confined to that specific domain and particular problem. In this paper, we present ART3mis - a general-purpose, user-friendly, interactive textual annotation tool for 3D objects. Primarily attuned to aid cultural heritage conservators, restorers and curators with no technical skills in 3D imaging and graphics, the tool allows for the easy handling, segmenting and annotating of 3D digital replicas of artefacts. ART3mis applies a user-driven, direct-on-surface approach. It can handle detailed 3D cultural objects in real-time and store textual annotations for multiple complex regions in JSON data format.