Practical Techniques for Aerial Photogrammetry, Polygon Reduction and Aerial 360 Photography for Cultural Heritage Preservation in AR and VR Applications

Abstract

In this paper we present the methods and practical techniques we developed for the production of 3d models as end products to be used in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage applications as well as Aerial 360 Panoramic Images and virtual tour production for the project Digital Aitoloakarnania. We primarily focus on biased polygon reduction or polyreduction and procedural uv scaling techniques on polygonal models initially generated with photogrammetry.