Digital anthropology for effective retrieval of the anterior fontanelle

Pascal Desbarats (1) , Stefka Gueorguieva (1) , Remi Synave (1) , Hélène Coqueugniot (2) , Bruno Dutailly (2)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie

Laser scan acquisition, reconstruction and size evolution measurement of the anterior fontanelle are presented for the private osteology collection of the chair of anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at Strasbourg. Two main results are presented. The first one regards the skull cap fixed error acquisition and reconstruction. The second one concerns the evaluation of the heterogeneity of the fontanelle closure processes.

Mots clés: image processing; digital anthropology; laser scanner acquisition; 3D object reconstruction

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Pascal Desbarats, Stefka Gueorguieva, Remi Synave, Hélène Coqueugniot, Bruno Dutailly. Digital anthropology for effective retrieval of the anterior fontanelle. ECS10- 10th European Congress of ISS, Stereology and Image Analysis, Jun 2009, Milan, Italy. pp.421-425. ⟨hal-00416061⟩