Computer Science Research
Virtual Recovery of Excavated Relics
This work aims at a virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds in cyberspace for ancient relic preservation, archaeology research, and multimedia content generation. First, we develop an imaging device to digitize damaged pieces in the form of 3-D shapes and surface textures. Then we build an interface for connecting broken fragments in a virtual space so that the original model can be visually recovered. The idea of virtual recovery provides both flexibility and new opportunities for archaeologists to examine complex, damaged relics. Moreover, the virtually recovered objects can be directly displayed in a multimedia format. A verification experiment has been made at an UNESCO world heritage site in Xian, China.
Project Presented By
Zheng, Jiang Yu
Education Details
| BS: | Computer Science Fudan University 1983 |
| MS: | Control Engineering Osaka University 1987 |
| PhD: | Control Engineering Osaka University 1990 |
Research Interests
Dr. Zheng earned his B.S. degree from Fudan University, China, in 1983, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in Japan in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He was with ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratory as a research associate from 2000-2003. He then worked at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, from 1993 to 2001 as an associate professor. He specializes in the areas of image, vision, graphics, virtual reality, multimedia, and the internet. His current research interests include 3D Modeling, Dynamic Image Processing, scene representation, digital museums, and combining vision with graphics and human interface. Dr. Zheng received 1991 Best Paper Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan for generating the world's first digital panoramic image. He also received the Excellent Paper Award from the Japan Society of Art and Science in 2000 for his development of a graphics tool to extract human motion from video. He is a senior member of IEEE, and adjunct professor in Beijing University, China.
