The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424)
The present study aims to approximate the face from the alleged skull of Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424), a military commander and national hero in the Czech Republic. Found in 1910, the skull has only a fraction of its original structure, which required an initial effort to reconstruct the missing...
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| author | Moraes, Cicero Abdullah, Johari Yap Sindelar, Jiri Sindelar, Matej Thomova, Zuzana Smrcka, Jakub Vaccarezza, Mauro Beaini, Thiago Galassi, Francesco Maria |
| author_facet | Moraes, Cicero Abdullah, Johari Yap Sindelar, Jiri Sindelar, Matej Thomova, Zuzana Smrcka, Jakub Vaccarezza, Mauro Beaini, Thiago Galassi, Francesco Maria |
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| description | The present study aims to approximate the face from the alleged skull of Jan
Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424), a military commander and national hero in the Czech Republic.
Found in 1910, the skull has only a fraction of its original structure, which required an initial
effort to reconstruct the missing regions from data collected in CT scans of living people’s
heads. The forensic facial approximation consisted of projecting the skin boundaries with
soft tissue markers and cross-referencing data from statistical projections from CT scans
of living people and the use of the anatomical deformation technique, where the digital
head of a virtual donor was adjusted until it matched the alleged skull of the Czech general.
The final face was the result of the cross-referencing of all data and the completion of the
structure respected the iconography attributed to Jan Žižka |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-968212025-02-06T01:23:29Z The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) Moraes, Cicero Abdullah, Johari Yap Sindelar, Jiri Sindelar, Matej Thomova, Zuzana Smrcka, Jakub Vaccarezza, Mauro Beaini, Thiago Galassi, Francesco Maria anatomy anthropology artificial intelligence digital facial approximation Jan Žižka The present study aims to approximate the face from the alleged skull of Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424), a military commander and national hero in the Czech Republic. Found in 1910, the skull has only a fraction of its original structure, which required an initial effort to reconstruct the missing regions from data collected in CT scans of living people’s heads. The forensic facial approximation consisted of projecting the skin boundaries with soft tissue markers and cross-referencing data from statistical projections from CT scans of living people and the use of the anatomical deformation technique, where the digital head of a virtual donor was adjusted until it matched the alleged skull of the Czech general. The final face was the result of the cross-referencing of all data and the completion of the structure respected the iconography attributed to Jan Žižka 2025 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96821 10.3390/heritage8010007 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI fulltext |
| spellingShingle | anatomy anthropology artificial intelligence digital facial approximation Jan Žižka Moraes, Cicero Abdullah, Johari Yap Sindelar, Jiri Sindelar, Matej Thomova, Zuzana Smrcka, Jakub Vaccarezza, Mauro Beaini, Thiago Galassi, Francesco Maria The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) |
| title | The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) |
| title_full | The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) |
| title_fullStr | The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) |
| title_short | The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) |
| title_sort | facial approximation of the skull attributed to jan žižka (ca. ad 1360–1424) |
| topic | anatomy anthropology artificial intelligence digital facial approximation Jan Žižka |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96821 |