ABSTRACT
The Great War was the first industrialised conflict fought on vast battlefields across Europe and beyond, resulting in millions of casualties and destruction on a hitherto undreamt-of scale. With advances in Three-Dimensional (3D)-modelling technology, using scanning or image- based modelling, the geometry of the Great War heritage can be accurately recorded for posterity, even if only in its digital form. To create a 3D model, current state-of-the art image- based 3D modelling (IBM) approaches generally rely on the principles of photogrammetry and computer vision. There are many IBM solutions available that enable the construction of a 3D model from a set of overlapping photographs. The key improvement that computer vision algorithms brought to IBM approaches is reflected in the much faster and simplified acquisition of the photographs for 3D model creation. 3D models are digital approximations of a physical object’s surface geometry and can be stored, reused, and analysed in any digital environment.
