3D Reconstruction of Niniveh

A casestudy on the Bas-reliefs of the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib with monocular images

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

N. van Apeldoorn Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

B.A.J. Lenseigne (supervisor 1)
P.P. Jonker (supervisor 1)
J. Dik (supervisor 2)
Jo M.P. Geraedts (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright: © 2017 Naphur van Apeldoorn
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Published Date

26-06-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Parts of the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib (700 BC), which were located in Nineveh (Iraq), are now destroyed by the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria. The palace rooms used to be decorated with numerous Assyrian reliefs. Luckily, digital pictures of the site are available thanks to an Italian expedition in 2002. The goal of this research is to physically reproduce the destroyed reliefs using this photo database. First photogrammetry was used to rebuild
the global dimensions of the reliefs. The details are reconstructed by fusing a highly detailed depth map retrieved with Shape from Luminance (SFL), together with a coarser Artificial Reconstruction. The fused reconstruction was evaluated with the eigenvalues of the Hessian. The eigenvalues give an intuitive measure about the shapes of the reliefs. The RMSE of the results improve up to 44.4% compared to the usage of an intensity (grey) image. The final 3D models are used to produce full size reproductions with 3D printing and CNC milling.