Digital restoration of fragmentary human skeletal remains: Testing the feasibility of virtual reality
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F19%3A00110276" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/19:00110276 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1752928X19300575" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1752928X19300575</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2019.06.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jflm.2019.06.005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Digital restoration of fragmentary human skeletal remains: Testing the feasibility of virtual reality
Original language description
Experts in forensic anthropology and medicine have become gradually accustomed to examining components of the human body in the virtual workspace. While the computer-assisted approach offers numerous benefits, the interactions with digital three-dimensional biological objects are often problematic, particularly if conducted with mouse, keyboard and flat-panel screen. The study focusses on feasibility of a virtual reality (VR) system for virtual restoration of fragmentary skeletal remains. The VR system was confronted with three cases of fragmentary remains. The cases were reassembled manually by twenty participants using a HTC Vive headset combined with an in-house application A.R.T. The same task was performed using a CloudCompare software in conjunction with a desktop peripheral. The two systems were compared in terms of time efficiency, the geometric properties of the resulting restorations, and convenience of use. Restoration using the VR system took approximately half the time the desktop set-up did. The VR system also yielded a lower error rate when a severely fragmented skull was reassembled. Ultimately, although the efficiency of the reassembling was shown to be strongly dependent on the operator's experience, the use of the VR system balanced out the uneven levels of proficiency in computer graphics. The current generation of virtual reality headsets has a strong potential to facilitate and improve tasks relating to the virtual restoration of fragmented skeletal remains. A VR system offers an intuitive digital working environment which is less affected by an operator's computer skills and practical understanding of the technology than the desktop systems are.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30501 - Forensic science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
ISSN
1752-928X
e-ISSN
1532-2009
Volume of the periodical
66
Issue of the periodical within the volume
AUG 2019
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
50-57
UT code for WoS article
000477943900008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85067302382