Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

The main event of this year is the creation of the team MANAO. This is a big step for defining a new research domain, at the frontier of optical science and computer graphics.

The second hightlight is shared with our partners of the ANR SeARCH project (see Section  8.2.1 ). The results of our collaborative work on the Alexandria lighthouse was one of the key event of the exhibition dedicated to lighthouses at the "musée de la marine" in Paris (cf. Figure 1 ). These results were possible thanks to the new visualization and re-assembly tools developed in our team, using data from the new acquisition process developed by our partners Archéovision and CEAlex.

Figure 1. Participation to the "PHARE" exhibition at Musée de la marine in Paris. With our partners of the ANR SeARCH project, we have reproduced and provided a first-time-seen reconstructed statue of Isis (left) which was standing in front of the Alexandria lighthouse (1/5 scale).

This year was also very successful in terms of publications. We managed to publish 6 papers in major journals and conferences (2 at TOG/SIGGRAPH [16] , [21] , 2 at IEEE TVCG [17] , [19] and finally 2 at Computer Graphics Forum [15] , [18] ). They cover the whole range of our project, from material properties [19] to geometry analysis [15] , [18] , shading analysis [21] , content creation [16] and, augmented reality [17] . These publications have received a lot of attention as proved by the two interviews [24] , [25] and the 3rd best paper award at the national conference on computer graphics [22] .