UTokyo's e-Heritage Project: 3D Modeling of Heritage Sites

Google Tech Talks
May, 8 2008

ABSTRACT

Enjoying amazing ancient structures through Internet technologies is one of
the most promising methods to promote our culture and cultural heritage.
These technologies involve sensing, transmission, and display. In this talk,
I will briefly explain these three aspects, and then focus on sensing
issues, in particular, the technical challenges presented by sensing huge
outdoor structures. I will describe the technical challenges and how we
solved them as we confronted the difficult task of modeling the huge Bayon
Temple in the Angkor ruin in Cambodia. I will show the digital data we
obtained, including the entire structure of the temple, the hundred and
seventy-three faces of deities, and the hidden pediments. I will also
explain some of the technical issues involved in displaying the data we
obtained, using our virtual Aska as an example.

Speaker: Katsushi Ikeuchi
Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received
a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in
1978. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI Lab
for two years, Electrotechnical Lab, Japan for five years, and Carnegie
Mellon University for ten years, he joined the university in 1996. His
research interest spans computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics. He
has received several awards, including the David Marr Prize in computational
vision, and IEEE R K-S Fu memorial best transaction paper award. He has
served as the program/general chairman of many international conferences,
including 1995 IEEE-IROS, 1996 IEEE-CVPR, and 2003 IEEE-ICCV. He is
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision. He is a
distinguished speaker of the IEEE CS society this year. He has been elected
as a fellow of IEEE since 1998.