Proposing features for the reconstruction of marble plates of ephesos

Abstract

The reconstruction of marble plates of Ephesos is discussed in this paper. Automated reconstruction techniques exist for 2 dimensional objects as well as for 3 dimensional objects. Current applications that consider the shape of the fragments only, are able to reconstruct complete objects consisting of no more than e.g. 10 parts. Therefore, additional features are necessary to reconstruct objects with a large number of fragments, or if pieces of different objects are mixed up. This paper presents an overview of currently used 2D features for reconstruction on the example of paper reconstruction, how 3D objects like pottery can be reconstructed and shows how these 2D features can be used for the reassembling of the Ephesos marble plates.