16th APAN Meetings /
Advanced Network Conference in Busan 
 

Museum Session
 

 

 

Session Chair: Yong-Moo Kwon (KIST, Korea)

Presentation Titles and Speakers:
1. A Case Study of Virtual Museum: Reconstruction and Restoration of Dunhuang Caves in China (download presentation)
Jiao Ying Shi (Zhejiang University, China)
2. 3D Modeling Techniques for Virtual Museum Exhibition (download presentation)
Hiroaki Nishino (Oita University, Japan)
3. Image Mosaic Techniques for the Restoration of Virtual Heritage (download presentation) (download paper)
Yong-Moo Kwon (KIST, Korea)

Description:

The Museum Session will address the research trends on Virtual Heritage Content Generation Techniques based on actual measurement and the perspectives of Networked Virtual Museum using CJK in North-East Asia for the share and service of the cultural heritage contents.


 

1. A Case Study of Virtual Museum: Reconstruction and Restoration of Dunhuang Caves in China
Abstract: Some techniques  we used and  some experiences we had for building a virtual Dunhuang Caves are introduced in this talk.  The main focus is on how effectively to represent and disseminate the Caves virtually.

2. 3D Modeling Techniques for Virtual Museum Exhibition
Abstract: 3D geometric modeling techniques are essential building blocks to create attractive contents for a virtual museum (VM). They precisely capture and reconstruct real objects' shapes to visualize historically valued entities in a virtual space. Preservation and restoration of the reconstructed objects are also important functions to realize a usable VM.  This talk introduces some geometric modeling techniques to digitize, visualize, and manipulate the 3D objects scanned by range finders, and efficiently support distributed data sharing and collaborative work in a networked VM. A scanned 3D object is typically represented as a polygon mesh. Because the polygon mesh is an unstructured huge dataset, it is difficult to process such data with 3D modeling operations. We developed a method to make the 3D modeling an easy task. It transforms a 3D polygon mesh into a geometrically equivalent 2D gray scale image. Then the method allows users to easily perform 3D geometric operations such as deformations and shape blending by editing and retouching the transformed 2D image. It also provides various modeling operations through the use of commercially available image processing tools.  Additionally, it effectively realizes common functions required to construct a networked VM such as a progressive 3D data transfer to incrementally send a huge dataset from its rough shapes to the details, an LOD (level of detail) function to dynamically adjust 3D objects' resolution for efficient rendering, and a 3D data compression.

3. Image Mosaic Techniques for the Restoration of Virtual Heritage
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce our researches on virtual heritage contents generation techniques.. Here, we present our contents generation techniques based on actual measurements, using infrared camera, X-ray camera.. Especially, we will introduce our mosaic techniques for underdrawing of wall paintings using IR image, old sword using X-Ray images.