Miglena Raykovska Profile

Profile:  Miglena Raykovska, PhD Candidate


 

Miglena Raykovska

You may have noticed a new face around the Department of Classics during the winter term.  Miglena Raykovska, PhD candidate at New Bulgarian University, is a guest in our department and will be working with Dr. Bevan until mid-April.

Miglena has an MA in Architecture from the University of Architecture Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, an MA in Archaeology from New Bulgarian University, Sofia, and a certificate in the restoration, conservation and preservation of immovable cultural heritage from the École de Chaillot, Paris and The National Institute for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Sofia. She is currently a PhD student at New Bulgarian University, where her thesis concentrates on the 3D graphic reconstruction of late antique sites in the Bulgaria. This term she is working in Dr. George Bevan’s lab at Queen’s and researching 2D photographic techniques, like Colour Decorrelation, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, Panoramic Photography, High Dynamic Range Photography, and Image Segmentation and Morphological Analysis (crack detection). She is also working on the integration of these 2D techniques with photogrammetry and will be giving a paper on this subject with Dr. Bevan and Ivan Vasiliev at the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Archaeology, Saint Petersbourg, in June 2015.