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

2026-02-13

Technology Category

• Computer Vision: 3D Computer Vision
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Geometric, Spatial, and Temporal Reasoning
• Natural Language Processing: Interpretability, Analysis, and Evaluation of NLP Models

Application Category

• Semantics and Knowledge: Representation, semantic annotation, enhancement, enrichments, access and/or integration of a variety of data on the Web
• Economics, Online Markets and Human Computation: Humans versus LLMs for data annotation and labeling
• User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendation: Explainable and interpretable methods for personalization

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.

Problem

• 3D annotation
• cultural heritage
• metadata attachment
• 3D digital objects
• textual annotation

Innovation

• ray-based annotation
• 3D cultural heritage
• interactive textual annotation
• direct-on-surface interaction
• real-time 3D segmentation