Dipl.-Ing. Georgios Toubekis
Contact Information
| Address: |
Aachen Center for Documentation and Conservation R 001 Templergraben 49 52062 Aachen DE |
| Phone: | +49 241 809 5217 |
| Email: | toubekis@sbg.arch.rwth-aachen.de |
Online Presence
| Website: | http://www.sbg.rwth-aachen.de/ |
Dipl.-Ing. Georgios Toubekis is a doctoral researcher in the Aachen Center for Documentation and Conservation at the Dept.of Urbanization within the Faculty of Architecture of RWTH Aachen University. He received a diploma of Architecture from RWTH Aachen University and is member of ICOMOS Germany. He has been project coordinator in the projects of RWTHacdc in Afghanistan and conducted various field trips in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the documentation of UNESCO World Heritage sites. His actual research topic is the elaboration of methods for the sustainable implementation of preservation standards for cultural sites especially World Heritage Sites in developing countries. A special focus is being laid in the use of contemporary IT technologies from the field of applied information science in order to foster community involvement in cultural heritage projects.
Projects
Completed Projects
Theses
- 3D Object Annotation for Collaborative Storytelling (2016)
- Developing a gigapixel web-service for mobile devices (2012)
- Interaktive Semantisierung multimedialer Daten mit RIA (2009)
- Open Standards and Architectures for Community Information Systems in Cultural Heritage Management (2004)
Publications
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Stereo-Satellite Imagery for the Management of the UNESCO World Heritage Minaret of Jam (Afghanistan)
Georgios Toubekis, Albert Moll, Michael Jansen, Matthias Jarke
- Physical revitalization of the Eastern Buddha statue in Bamiyan using reinforced adobe material
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Longterm preservation of the physical remains of the destroyed Buddha figures in Bamiyan (Afghanistan), using virtual reality technologies for preparation and evaluation of restoration measures.
Published in Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation (26th International CIPA Symposium, Ottawa, Ont, September 2017), ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science 2017.
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A Micro Approach for Learning via Collaborative 3D Objects Annotation on the Web
Published in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web-based Learning, Guangzhou, China, November 5-8, 2015
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Preservation and Management of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bamiyan: Laser Scan Documentation and Virtual reconstruction of the Destroyed Buddha Figures and the Archaeological Remains
Georgios Toubekis, Irmengard Mayer, Marina Döring-Williams, Kosaku Maeda, Kazuya Yamauchi, Yoko Taniguchi, Susumu Morimoto, Michael Petzet, Matthias Jarke, Michael Jansen
Published in CIPA Heritage Documentation Best Practices and Applications, Series I, 2007 2009 2011, Eds. Stylianidis E., Patias, P. and Santana,M., International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. XXXVIII,Part 5/C19
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Well-balanced Usability & Annotation Complexity in Interactive Video Semantization
Yiwei Cao, Dominik Renzel, Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, Michael Lottko, Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen
Published in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2010)
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Virtual Campfire - Cross-Platform Services for Mobile Social Software (Demo paper)
Yiwei Cao, Xi Chen, Niels Drobek, A. Hahne, Anna Hannemann, Christian Hocken, Michael Jansen, H. Janßen, Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, Dejan Kovachev, Zinayida Petrushyna (Kensche), Manh Pham, Dominik Renzel, Patrik Schlebusch, Georgios Toubekis
Published in Proc. of the Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management, May 18-20, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 363-364
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Virtual Campfire - Cultural Heritage Management and Presentation on Mobile Devices based on Interoperable Cross-Plattform MPEG-7 Multimedia Web Services
Published in Conference Paper at the 22nd CIPA Symposium - Digital Documentation, Interpretation & Presentation of Cultural Heritage, 11-15 Octoer 2009, Kyoto, Japan
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From Story-Telling to Educational Gaming: The Bamiyan Valley Case
Marc Spaniol, Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, P. Moreno-Ger, B. Fernández Manjón, J. Luis Sierra, Georgios Toubekis
Published in F. Li, J. Zhao, T. K. Shih R. Lau, Q. Li, D. McLeod (Eds.) Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2008, Proceedings, Jinhua, China, August 2008, LNCS 5145, Springer, pp. 253--264
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ACIS: A collaborative hypermedia geospatial community information systems of Afghan Monuments and Sites
Published in Proceedings of Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2008) - 2-6 April, Budapest/Hungary, 2008
Peter Chen Award 2020 goes to Prof. Matthias Jarke 