Great Buddha Project

  We digitized the 3D data of Great Buddha of Kamakura, and rendered a CG image of the buddha which is covered with gold leaf and settled in daibutsu-den building, which is the same sight at the time it was built.
  We scanned the buddha from many directions with 3D laser scanner. We aligned these range data, and merged into one 3D mesh model. At the time when the buddha was built, it is considered to be covered by gold leaf and settled in daibutsu-den building. Thus, we generate the CG image of the buddha at the time it was built.

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*The Great Buddha Project: Digitally Archiving, Restoring, and Analyzing Cultural Heritage Objects
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Takeshi Oishi, Jun Takamatsu, Ryusuke Sagawa, Atsushi Nakazawa, Ryo Kurazume, Ko Nishino, Mawo Kamakura, Yasuhide Okamoto
International Journal of Computer Vision
vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 189-208, 2007
*The Great Buddha Project: Modeling Cultural Heritage for VR Systems through Observation
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Kazuhide Hasegawa, Takeshi Ohishi
IEEE ISMAR03
Tokyo, Japan, Nov., 2003
ismar2003.pdf (From: Katsushi Ikeuchi's Homepage)
*Creating Virtual Buddha Statues through Observation
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Ko Nishino, Takeshi Oishi
IEEE/CVPR Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology (ACVA'03)
Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
June 17, 2003
*Overview of the CREST Digital Archiving Project -Digital Archiving of Cultural Heritage through Observation-
Katsushi Ikeuchi
in Proceedings of International Symposium on the CREST Digital Archiving Project
pp. 3-16, Tokyo, Japan, May 23-24, 2003
*Towards The Digital Archive of Cultural Heritages -Preservation and Restoration of Ancestral Assets through Observation-
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Ko Nishino, Atsushi Nakazawa
in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM2002)
pp.920-925, Gyeongju, Korea, 25-27 September 2002
*Modeling Cultural Heritage Through Observation
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yutaka Takase, Ryo Kurazume, Takeshi Ooishi, Ryusuke Sagawa, Ko Nishino
Int. Sympo. on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human Centered Technology for Nuclear Applications
pp.26-32, 2002.01
*Modeling Curtural Heritage through Observation
Katsushi Ikeuchi
The 1st IEEE Int. Sympo. on Signal Processing and Information Technology (Keynote Speach)
2001.12
*The Great Buddha Project: Modeling Cultural Heritage through Observation
Daisuke Miyazaki, Takeshi Oishi, Taku Nishikawa, Ryusuke Sagawa, Ko Nishino, Takashi Tomomatsu, Yutaka Takase, Katsushi Ikeuchi
pp.181-193, 2001/1
Chapter 8
In: Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yoichi Sato, "Modeling from Reality," Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Mass. USA, p. 199, 2001/1
*Modeling from reality
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yoichi Sato
Kluwer Academic Publishers
2001.01
*Modeling Cultural Heritage through Observation
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yoichi Sato, Ko Nishino, Ryusuke Sagawa, Taku Nishikawa, Takeshi Oishi, Imari Sato, Jun Takamatsu and Daisuke Miyazaki
in Proc. of IEEE First Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
Sydney, Australia, 2000.12
*Modelling Cultural Heritage through Observation
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yutaka Takase, Ko Nishino, Ryusuke Sagawa, Daisuke Miyazaki, Takashi Oishi
7th International Display Workshop
pp.1099-1102, Kobe, Japan, 2000.11
*Applying MFR(modelling-from-reality) for Cultural Heritage Preservation
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yutaka Takase, Takashi Tomomatsu, Ko Nishino, Ryusuke Sagawa, Taku Nishikawa, Takeshi Oishi, Daisuke Miyazaki
Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Network Based Human Friendly Mechatronics and Systems
pp.66-70, Seoul, Korea, 2000.11
*The Great Buddha Project: Modelling Cultural Heritage through Observation
Daisuke Miyazaki, Takeshi Ooishi, Taku Nishikawa, Ryusuke Sagawa, Ko Nishino, Takashi Tomomatsu, Yutaka Takase, Katsushi Ikeuchi
in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM2000)
pp.138-145, Gifu, Japan, 2000/10/5 (2000/10/4-2000/10/6)
***Best overall paper***
http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2000/
Paper: English, Presentation: English
Virtual Heritage: Applications II
Miyazaki-VSMM2000.pdf

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