This five year project, which aims at developing automatic techniques to create high level digital media contents of cultural heritages, began in the year 2000.

The final year is reached and we have developed diverse techniques which can be applied to build digital archives of tangible and intangible cultural assets. So far, a variety of cultural heritages have been digitized.These include the great buddha in Kamakura and Nara, Bayon temple in Cambodia as well as traditional dances.

In this symposium, these techniques are presented in geometrical, photometrical, environmental and time series aspects in detail.

Also, 5 prominent researchers in this field are invited and will talk about their latest results.

Some videos.

Nara Great Buddha (49,489KB)	Bayon Digital Archival Project (55,391KB)	Dancing Humanoid Robot_Aizu-Bandaisan (60.5 MB)

Prof. Alonzo C. Addison (UNESCO World Heritage Centre and University of California, Berkeley)

Prof. Peter K. Allen (Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, NY, USA)

Prof. Roberto Scopigno (Visual Computing Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, ITALY)

Prof. Kiriakos N. Kutulakos (Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto and Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research-Asia)

Prof. Sung Yong Shin (KAIST, Korea)

Date:

Mar. 8(Tus) - 9(Wed), 2005

Location:

Auditorium (2F), 4th Building.

at Research Center for Advanced Science and TechnologyInstitute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo [MAP][ACCESS]

8th March

Session 1: Modeling Cultural Heritage Objects Overview
10:00 - 10:40	Overview of the CREST Digital Archiving Project :Digital Archiving of Cultural Heritage Objects Using Observation and Computer Vision Techniques Katsushi Ikeuchi, the University of Tokyo, Japan
10:40 - 11:20	Beyond Digital Archiving: A Virtual Portal to the World's Heritage Alonzo Addison, UNESCO World Heritage Centre and University of California, Berkeley
11:20 - 11:40	Collaboration of geometry and photometry for virtual exhibitions of tangible and intangible cultural heritages Takeshi Shakunaga, Okayama University, Japan

Session 2: Geometric Sensors and Techniques
12:40 - 13:20	Automating the 3D Modeling Pipeline Peter K. Allen, Columbia University, USA
13:20 - 13:40	Flying Laser Range Sensor -A Novel Aerial Sensing System for Large-scale Heritage- Kazuhide Hasegawa, the University of Tokyo, Japan
13:40 - 14:00	Polarization-based Shape Estimation of Transparent Objects for Digitizing Cultural Assets Daisuke Miyazaki, the University of Tokyo, Japan
14:00 - 14:20	Fast Simultaneous Alignment of Multiple Range Images Takeshi Oishi, the University of Tokyo, Japan
14:20 - 14:40	Recovery of Distorted Shapes Obtained from the Flying Laser Range Sensor for Large-Scale Cultural Heritages Atsuhiko Banno, the University of Tokyo, Japan
14:40 - 15:00	BREAK
15:00 - 15:40	Enhancing processing and visualization efficiency of 3D Scanned Meshes Roberto Scopigno, ISTI-CNR, ITALY
15:40 - 16:00	Sunlight Illumination Simulation for Archaeological Investigation -Case Study of the Fugoppe Cave- Nobuaki Kuchitsu, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan
16:00 - 16:20	Distortion Correction of Range Data Obtained from Floating Laser Range Sensor using Parameterized Deformation Registration Tomohito Masuda, the University of Tokyo, Japan
16:20 - 16:40	Virtual Kawaradera: Fast Shadow Texture for Augmented Reality Tetsuya Kakuta, the University of Tokyo, Japan
16:40 - 18:30	Laboratory Tour

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9th March

Session 3: Photometric and Environmental Techniques
10:00 - 10:40	Refractive and Specular 3D Shape by Light-Path Reconstruction Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, University of Toronto, Canada
10:40 - 11:00	Color Alignment for Texturing 3D Geometric Model Hiroki Unten, the University of Tokyo, Japan
11:00 - 11:20	Estimate surface color from changing illumination Rei Kawakami, the University of Tokyo, Japan
11:20 - 11:40	Spectral Scene Separating: Illumination distribution and Surface Spectral reflectance Akifumi Ikari, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Session 4: Motion Acquisition and Analysis
13:00 - 13:40	Computer Graphics Research at KAIST Sung Yong Shin, KAIST, Korea
13:40 - 14:00	Multimodal Dance Training System based on Motion Analysis Yoshinori Kuno, Saitama University, Japan
14:00 - 14:20	Dance Motion Analysis and Synthesis using Motion Capture Data Atsushi Nakazawa, Osaka University, Japan
14:20 - 14:40	Structure Detection of Dance Sequence using Motion Capture and Musical Information Takaaki Shiratori, the University of Tokyo, Japan
14:40 - 15:00	Balance Maintenance Model for Human-like Characters with Whole Body Motion Shunsuke Kudoh, the University of Tokyo, Japan
15:00 - 15:20	Task model of lower body motion for a humanoid robot to imitate human dances Shinichiro Nakaoka, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Session 5: Motion Editing and Presentation
15:50 - 16:10	Simultaneous Object Tracking and Recognition by Nearest Neighbor Traversing Graph Toshikazu Wada, Wakayama University, Japan
16:10 - 16:30	Learning Everyday Manipulation Tasks from Observation Koichi Ogawara, the University of Tokyo, Japan
16:30 - 16:50	Imitation of Assembly Tasks for Realizing Dexterous Manipulation Jun Takamatsu, the University of Tokyo, Japan