A Survey of Computer Methods in Reconstruction of 3D Archaeological Pottery Objects

Manuscript History: An automatic reconstruction of ancient artifact fragments is of great interest in archaeology, and is considered important because it helps archaeologists make inferences about past cultures and civilizations. Therefore, numerous researches proposed various methods to put together and restore the fragments of a piece of pottery to its original form. The aim of this paper is to present an in-depth review of the most important available publications in computer applications related to the area of the classifying and reconstruction of three-dimensional model for archaeological pottery objects over the epoch in the early eighties until the end of 2013. This task classified according to the feature extraction, the classification process and the matching techniques implemented for the purpose of restoration of the fragments of pottery object to its original form. Moreover, this paper focused on review and analyze the results that they have achieved.

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