Cultural heritage in digital living

"Science and technology not only allows to protect the world cultural heritage and tradition, has been given new life."

Microsoft Research Asia led us to explore human civilization of precipitation and bloom.

Music from the Internet weekly article: Ma 荟

Five sunflowers has two flower has faded, a flower, Bud, two flower blossom is brilliant, as flame spray-thin.

Five of the vase of sunflowers is Van Gogh 11 site of sunflower works very representative. "However, it can only be found online at fuzzy pictures, it was during the second world war has destroyed by war. " Microsoft Project Visual Computing Group is responsible for Dr MosheBen-Ezra told reporters about digital cameras, and cultural heritage of relations, sadly.

Development of special camera Moshe captured texture painting

Compared with the Microsoft Research Asia researcher, Moshe's work seem a bit "alternative" and special — most of the time with a special big cameras, stay for the "big guy to place" dedicated out of the darkroom, and then shoot pictures with digital restoration, literally, that is a close to peep the microcosm.

"I hope I can put these ancient masterpieces to future, not only saved, but rather a virtually immersive details and shock. ”

In order to "rescue" of those on the verge of destruction and disappearance of solitary products, treasures, Microsoft Research Asia from network graphics group, Visual Computing Group, natural language group, voice groups, wireless communications group, the researchers and Moshe have the same aspirations.

The researchers for cultural heritage protection and display presents a valuable research and joint Asia-Pacific College conducted an exploratory study.

"Our technology on society, including humanbest natural hair regrowth beings more contributions and more help, so we decided to do this.

" Microsoft's University Relations Program Manager horse Xin said. The contents of the rich cultural heritage of the world, mainly in the cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. Microsoft research involved project involves not only the world heritage sites and cultural heritage protection and preservation of work, such as the surface texture modeling technology, virtual tour of concentric puzzle warriors, digital preservation, Angkor Wat, also contains a lot of intangible cultural heritage. In order to select the next, Microsoft Research Asia, back to the past.

In search of the lost good

Institute of the incumbent President Vincent Dunhuang jinshi once said, "Science and technology is the basis for the protection of cultural heritage.

" Microsoft Research Asia as the Enterprise Research Institute, and digital preservation of University and other research institutions, in efforts to find a technology services to the cultural heritage.

In 2008, Microsoft Research Asia University Relations Department at the official launch of the "cultural heritage digital research" topic research projects.

Not only will the cutting edge of technology and research results applied to cultural heritage, more use of computing technology on cultural heritage in origin, formation and development process.

In this process, Microsoft Research Asia in addition to wireless and sensor technology, natural language processing, search, computer vision, multimedia and other worlds graphic technology used cultural heritage.

How to apply proven technology to developing countries of heritage protection, such as the development of a series of techniques can lower the cost of protection and easy-to-operate characteristics include the researchers on the topic.

"A rare or size-specific artifacts, if because of objective conditions, does not allow moving or touching it, and you want to be to full 360 degree dat

a acquisition, and even in and out of every detail. This requires special capture device. "Ma 歆 simple to reporter describes the process of digital artifacts, including data collection, data processing, digital displays three procedures. The first step is an almost impossible task.

For this task, Moshe to reporters a few months ago just "completion" special cameras, this is like a pair of leads to the history of Angel eyes, can see each stroke even traces of paint and concave.

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Angel eyes

In the enter the Microsoft Research Asia interview, Moshe had talked about the development of a special camera.

While these creative produce than Moshe joined Microsoft time much earlier, as early as in Colombia University, Moshe on research in this area has more than 2 years. At Microsoft Research Asia, he finally had a chance to turn dreams into reality.

Moshe and his colleagues specifically for the Museum of digital art files, and electronic design and manufacturing of the cultural heritage of a camera.

This is the first successful history with oversized lens of the camera, oversized lenses through and digital sensor combination of design was originally used for filming. This camera can capture more than 1000 pixels picture, now commercial digital cameras can only manufacture of not more than 160 trillion pixel picture. Most importantly, you do not need to move the camera. Therefore, it is more suitable for shooting with three-dimensional texture surface objects. In a different light, camera photo synthesis by computer, and then, get the three-dimensional image.

"The picture is not the only measure a camera is good or bad for standards, this camera contrast ratio greater than 1: 3000000, this is the best camera on the market at present of 300 times.

Its clarity allows us in a m far to see a tip on a 30 line, this is a normal human vision of 6 times. "Moshe told reporters.

Hardware powerful also in Microsoft's most powerful software platform to discover.

Through computer software, you can easily get those using conventional camera and unable to get or very difficult.

Through time and space of dialogue

In addition to helping to preserve cultural heritage and research, Microsoft Research Asia wants to get mysterious history show more accessible and interesting side.

While respecting the history, reproduce true history, Microsoft Research Asia, on the one hand and research institutions, to the most cutting-edge technology and research applied to the heritage, culture, history, archaeology, and other aspects of the confirmation, protection, conservation and heritage.

On the other hand, also let the usual deep in the Museum approached the common people's vision, achievement of from mystery to ancient and dialogue.

Visual Computing Group project leader Dr. Moshe and his camera partners

Microsoft Research Asia is working with the National Palace Museum in Peking and co-operation of the "Riverside" art tone display system is one of the cultural heritage protection applied to the entertainment level application.

"For the common people, the Palace is a mysterious place, on the one hand, because it's Palace building, on the one hand, the large number of collections. We hope and the National Palace Museum together to examine how to better display the treasures to the world. "Ma 歆 told reporters.

Microsoft Research Asia, through communication with heritage experts and information analysis and understanding, up to a life history.

By multi-point touch technology, viewers are free to browse the whole picture, and through interactive and background sounds and sound effects, they are like browse pictures of scenes.

"Through the system, we want to let the audience heard cries, the boatmen of hawker's brokerage or a large family of Miss Street softly, three-dimensional technology will sound accurately marked in figures and scenes, fully embodies the Riverside scatter perspective painting characteristics. Large data, many scenes and understand your audience enjoy psychology to make this project challenges. "Ma 歆 to reporters.

"Technology is leading to the application, but science and technology and service to the application.

We hope that the future can let these mysterious valuable things much easier to obtain, for example, using a mobile phone in the future to achieve digital cultural heritage. "Cultural heritage digital research process, continuous contact Malaysia 歆 want more interested universities and teacher, with more cultural relics protection units, thereby creating more tripartite cooperation projects. In her words, the project is not in the large, but in the quality and the significance of its existence.