How project INDIGO automatically turns graffiti photos into orthophotomaps

Abstract

Graffiti are a short-lived and polarising form of cultural heritage. The graffiti-focused research project INDIGO, funded by ÖAW, documents and digitally preserves (almost) every graffito created along Vienna’s Donaukanal, one of the world’s largest graffiti hotspots. A central aim of INDIGO is the creation of a georeferenced orthophoto for each graffito, which digitally geo-localizes the graffito in 3D space and facilitates the interpretation in a spatial context. The poster explains the “orthophoto” concept and details how INDIGO uses modern photogrammetric techniques to derive them automatically.

Geert Julien Joanna Verhoeven
Geert Julien Joanna Verhoeven
Vice Director, Senior Researcher