ART3mis: Ray-Based Textual Annotation on 3D Cultural Objects

TL;DR

ART3mis is an interactive, user-friendly tool enabling cultural heritage professionals to easily annotate and attach metadata to detailed 3D cultural objects in real-time, enhancing digital artifact analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a general-purpose, surface-based annotation tool tailored for non-technical users to handle complex 3D cultural objects efficiently.

Findings

Supports real-time handling of detailed 3D objects

Stores annotations in JSON format for multiple regions

Facilitates easy segmentation and annotation of artefacts

Abstract

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.