Photo Masking of British Museum Bronze Age Objects

This application will help a variety of research projects to create high quality 3d models of archaeological artefacts. There has been a revolution in 3d modelling in recent years and it is now relatively easy to construct such models from ordinary digital photographs. Isolating the objects depicted in these photographs, and masking out the background, is an important first step to achieving high quality results. The final 3d models will be made publicly available and are useful not only for basic documentation purposes, but also for graphical displays in museums, for inclusion in gaming and virtual reality environments, or for identifing different sub-styles in otherwise similar types of artefact (that might tell us about the date of the artefact, where it was made, or by whom). The photos that you could be assigned here might come from any number of different projects, and for now are assigned completely at random, although we are looking into allowing regular contributors to choose which projects they prefer to work on.

We would like people to draw one or more polygons around the object that they see in each photograph in order to identify the outline of the object and exclude the image background. This allows the 3d modelling process to concentrate on the object itself and ignore irrelevant information.

A Bronze Age Palstave from Goudhurst, Kent by MicroPasts on Sketchfab

Thank you!

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An example of one of these models has now been produced and can be seen here.

This project is on behalf of